Choosers of the Slain (Paladin of Shadows, Book 3)

Author - John Ringo ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Baen was reviewed on 4-Nov-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Choosers of the Slain (Paladin of Shadows, Book 3) by Baen. this is a very good book. it is part of a series. he is seal and has a dark side which does come out, but he saves the world from wmd. its an fun read you just have to take with a grain of salt. its him fighting to same the world. there is not a sex as in some of his other stories.¤

2) Hardcover Book Choosers of the Slain (Paladin of Shadows, Book 3) by Baen. Ringo´s Chooser of the Slain is another satisfying installment in the Ghost series. He continues to add to the history and culture of the Keldar and to add more events and action for the reader to explore.

The Keldar have been successful thus far as they are returned to their Warrior Heritage and Mike Jenkins, former SEAL, is growing in his role as Kildar. The pace of the story seems to follow a familiar pattern of status update, new threat, preparation for the new threat, initiation of movement, steps to conflict, conflict and subsequent danger... I feel like I am quoting the troop leading procedures.

My problem is that I feel like Jenkins is turning into James Bond who always gets the girl and comes out ahead in the end despite the losses and injuries he sustains. There are problems, true, friends get killed, true, but in the end it just seems like we know that he will be a hero and win. I guess that I want to see him break some new ground where his money and former SEAL skills don´t automatically provide for a solution. That might make the story irrelavent....

It´s a fun series and this book is a great installment as he rallies his troops to follow a girl into the bowels of the sex slave markets of the Balkans and finds that the reasons he has been sent are as slimy as the people who traffic in young women. Sounds like a James Bond movie, but it´s still a fun story.¤

3) Hardcover Book Choosers of the Slain (Paladin of Shadows, Book 3) by Baen. Choosers Of The Slain is an improvement over Ringo´s previous effort in this series, Kildar. He has finished the long set-up needed to establish the characters base and all the additional cast thrown into the previous novel, and can get down to some nitty-gritty action.

As he has shown, Ringo has a knack for military fiction. The urban battle scenes are great, and he even manages to pull of the more "stealthy" covert sections of the book, keeping the reader interested.

The series is still burdened by the Authors incredibly overuse of sex, specifically aggressive fairly deviant sex. This series has such potential that it will never live up to unless the Author steps back from whatever daemons he is working through.¤

4) Hardcover Book Choosers of the Slain (Paladin of Shadows, Book 3) by Baen. What´s to say, really. It´s sorta Tarl Cabot meets Jack Ryan. Without the pages of goofy internal dialogue or the Russian order of battle.¤

5) Hardcover Book Choosers of the Slain (Paladin of Shadows, Book 3) by Baen. Such is the basic worldview of Mike Harmon, former SEAL and accidental medieval warlord. A lot of us in the uglier parts of the US military are there to channel our demons into something for the betterment of society. When your sole talent and love is plotting the deaths of your fellow men in as messy and artistic a way as possible, yet you´re socialized enough as a human being to know it´s "wrong", you might as well go where you´re hunting for the betterment of mankind. I read this one right on the heels of Ringo´s We Few, and saw elements of the conflicted Prince Roger in Mike. I know what it´s like to want to kill someone so bad I could taste it, yet knowing it´s just not cool to do so. Finding an outlet for those energies now that my active infantry days are drawing to a close would be nice. Too bad there´s no valley of the Kildara out there for the rest of us old soldiers.

While it´s a novel that deals with the ugly truth of the international sex trade, it´s true that Mike has his own kinks and falls into situations where he gets to exercise them. My wife, a conniseur of such fiction, rates one scene in particular rather highly.

The trigger pulling portions aren´t bad, but often soft on some of the details. SPR´s aren´t really explained for what they are, and I think there´s too much use of the H&K MP-5, then again I´m not an admirer of any 9mm SMG for beyond room use.

The disclaimer in the front of the book, often overlooked, actually contains one of the funniest lines in the book.¤

6) Hardcover Book Choosers of the Slain (Paladin of Shadows, Book 3) by Baen. Sequel to Ghost and Kildar.

Former SEAL Michael Harmon (Ghost, Kildar) has a pretty good life. He´s settled down in the country of Georgia and built a solid commando-quality militia out of his local retainers. The Keldara have an ancient history of being first-class mountain warriors and all they needed was a few million in modern weapons and training to bring them up to speed. Now, with the Keldara keeping the area safe from Chechen raiders, and the various other terrorists that want Ghost´s head on their wall, he can settle back, relax in his harem and drink a few beers. However, a US senator has a problem. A "major financial contributor´s" daughter has been kidnapped into the labyrinthian depths of the Balkans sex-slave trade. The US government has been unable to find her and the Senator is _very_ interested in changing that condition. Five million dollars interested. As Ghost and his Keldara warriors blast a gaping hole through the middle of the trade, it quickly becomes apparent that there is more to the mission than a "poor missing waif." There´s a rot underneath, and the stench is coming from the very floor of the Capitol. Being at war with Albanian gangs is one thing. Taking on Washington is a different ball game. But Ghost never believed in fighting fair.¤

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