Graveyard of Empires: The exciting new Ben Hope thriller from the Sunday Times best selling author (Ben Hope, Book 26)

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I so love how Ben gets pulled into these kinds of missions despite his unwillingness and desire for a mundane life.

As always, there is a historical element to these stories and quite a lot of detail to impart, which slows down the action for a while and gives the rescue party a chance to catch their breath. While this is beneficial for new storylines, reusing old characters and adding more plotlines to their story builds on them and adds new layers and plotlines to the whole world of the books.I was getting right into this tale of derring do and excited to visit with Ben Hope when the story just imploded with THE most excruciatingly embarrassing plot twist . He stared at the red disc of the sun slowly dipping into the band of purple-tinged clouds across the eastern horizon. So when ex-SAS major Ben Hope hears former bounty-hunter, Madison Cahill, needs his help he knows it will test him to his limits – and beyond. The latest Ben Hope story sees our hero asked by the government to go back to post-US Afghanistan to extract an unamed VIP before the Taliban find hime - he agrees because it will aid his personal wish to try and find an American woman also stranded.

Scott Mariani skillfully weaves several plot strands together to give us another fast-paced, action-packed adventure. Apart from the utter crassness of the character choice, the book ended with a “with one bound he was free” moment. An exciting and well written / well paced read, that takes Ben back to old friends, old colleagues and an old stomping ground.I love this series so I am willing to suspend skepticism and believe that it's possible to run into an old friend in the deserts of Afghanistan. Ben seizes this as the only opportunity to spin off after rescuing Spartan to find his friend Madison. Scott Mariani is the author of the worldwide-acclaimed action / adventure series featuring maverick ex-SAS hero Ben Hope.

Ben hears through the grapevine that an archaeologist friend has got into trouble in Afghanistan, looking for her father's unfinished digs. When Hope is visited by a former SAS superior soon thereafter, he discovers that he is being put back into action, though without the commanding rank. At his home and Tactical Training Center in Le Val in Normandy, Ben is with his business partner Jeff Dekker, who is unwell while his third partner Tuesday Fletcher is visiting his family in Jamaica. This is probably the worst, which doesn't make it bad, as it's up against all Scott's great and enduring hero, Ben Hope's previous adventures.

The plot is filled with hard-hitting and edge-of-the-seat action that is both scary and unpredictable and can grab you by the throat. An ancient lost city founded by Alexander the Great, rediscovered by Madison’s archaeologist father.