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

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He begins his secondary mission to find Madison and soon finds the company of some US army and ex-British SAS officers, who are on a mission to rescue hostages trapped after the US Military pull-out. Since discovering the work of Scott Mariani, I have been highly impressed with the series as a whole, as well and many of the individual books. There is so much for the reader to enjoy and pique an interest so that they might explore more information on their own. Most of his female companions end up trying to change him which is just no, if one tries to change their partner that's always a dealbreaker.

This time around (she previously featured in The Bach Manuscript), I found Madison’s gung-ho attitude a bit irritating – she doesn’t seem to appreciate that people are risking their lives to help her. The regime imposed torture and public punishments like hanging and shooting on those who failed to follow their strict rules. I was initially sceptical and worried this may turn into another ‘Star of Africa’ or ‘Devil’s Kingdom’ which I have enjoyed the least in the series. Apart from the utter crassness of the character choice, the book ended with a “with one bound he was free” moment. Ben seizes this as the only opportunity to spin off after rescuing Spartan to find his friend Madison.

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. It was a welcome change to have a story relying less on the myths, historical content but more so, current events. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). This is no exception to its predecessors, with an archeological twist to Alexander’s lost city and his hidden treasures.

The baddies always cop it, Ben always gets at least one bullet graze and as always, his moral compass puts Jesus Christ himself to shame. This book takes Ben almost back to his roots by bringing him back to Afghanistan and we see how this affects him with memories of his time there with the SAS and in the military in general. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. All this, when the ruthless Taliban forces are tailing them at every step, sniffing out foreign forces and brutally killing them as an act of vengeance against the West.

I so love how Ben gets pulled into these kinds of missions despite his unwillingness and desire for a mundane life. Although I have given this book 5 stars because it is definitely worth everyone of those 5 stars, this is the first book of the 26 in this series that did not have quite the same rhythm as the previous 25.