Tuesday, February 16, 2010

I finished the book Ghost Recon and it had a very exciting but also very unexpected ending. The Taiwanese colonel, named Fang Zhi, defected and went and joined the Chinese. He and several other leading Chinese generals were having meetings to plan a series a series of attacks that would send the whole world into war. The Americans found out about the final part of these meetings and sent in their "Ghost" task force to infiltrate the base the Chinese were at and to take out all of the leaders. Scott Mitchell had moved up in the special forces and was now in fact the leader of this extremely elite "Ghost Reconnaissance" task force. The "Ghosts" went in and successfully eliminated all of the targets and on their way out Mitchell ran into Fang Zhi. This resulted in a really big battle and then a big chase that just about killed them all but finally ended with the death of Fang Zhi. I got a sense of completion and accomplishment when i read this ending and Michaels did a really good job of rapping the book up. I had guessed that Mitchell and Fang Zhi would end up fighting each other but this is one way that I didnt ever think of. At the same time it fit very well with all of the characters personalities so it made me wonder why I didn't think of it. It was so obvious once I had read it and yet before I would never have guessed it. The book was well written and kept me interested throughout. I would definately recommend it to all people who enjoy fiction war novels.