Deadly Game (GhostWalkers, Book 5) [Mass Market Paperback]

Christine Feehan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 29, 2009

It begins as a mission to protect a politician from an assassination threat. But the operation takes an unexpected turn when Mari, a mysteriously beautiful GhostWalker, is taken hostage. At the same time, Ken Norton, expert assassin and himself a GhostWalker warrior, is on a mission of his own—one that reaches into Mari’s own past. No stranger to the ways of violent warfare, Mari must join forces with Ken and trust his every move—each one more intimate than the last.

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In her latest work of hard-edged, futuristic romantic suspense, Feehan focuses on Ken, the twin of Jack Norton, from Conspiracy Game (2006), who was disfigured by torture. Ken finds Briony's twin, Mari, while on a mission to stop the assassination of a U.S. senator married to one of the girls from Dr. Whitney's enhancement experiments. Whitney has engineered an unstoppable attraction between Mari and Ken as part of his diabolical breeding program. Mari, raised with other girls in a compound, begins to doubt everything she has ever known as she and Ken try to save the other brutalized survivors. Strictly for readers already snared by Feehan's Ghost Walkers series. Diana Tixier Herald
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Jove (December 29, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0515142611
• ISBN-13: 978-0515142617
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I come from a large family with 13 brothers and sisters. My husband and I have 11 kids, 5 dogs, and lots of grandchildren. They keep me busy.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember. I've been published since 1999 & have over 30 books in print in multiple languages & formats. I usually write 3 books a year.

I have been fortunate to have wonderful readers who have helped me to make many bestseller lists and honors. I'm very grateful to them for their support of my writing.

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brutal, but necessary, July 12, 2007

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Melody J. Johnson (Lexington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deadly Game (GhostWalkers, Book 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

Before I read Deadly Game, I read the reviews...to say that they are mixed is putting it mildly...so I really didn't know what to expect. What I found really surprised me on a couple of levels.

First, this is a brutal book. There is no sugar coating anywhere in this book. I am a twenty-year military wife. I know what military men are like. My husband still won't talk about most of the things he had to do while he was in the military. I have heard him and his friends talking when they didn't know I could hear them. They are crude. They are raw. They are military. They are soldiers. It has always been amazing to me that my husband could be two different men. My husband and the father of my children, and the soldier...and believe me they in no way resemble each other. Seeing the Ghostwalkers as they are, as they perceive themselves to be, and the way their women look at them is very familiar to me. Being in the military IS brutal...being in the Special Forces is even more so. Feehan apparently knows some soldiers, because hers are quite realistic...maybe too realistic for some readers to handle.

Next, Whitney. I knew he wasn't dead. He couldn't be...because then there would be no nemesis. Whitney is a monster...and some people have a hard time believing that such a monster could exist. I am a psychologist and have been, in my past, a rape counselor. I am not going to go into detail, but suffice it to say that monsters like Whitney do exist. Freaks like the perverted physician in this novel do exist. I have witnessed the aftermath in their victims. Enough said.

Finally, this was a necessary addition to the Game novels. This one is not for the faint of heart. Feehan had to show some reality in this one. Granted, the psychic enhancements are getting a bit out of hand, but showing Whitney's madness was necessary. Just saying he was crazy would not have packed the same punch as reading it in detail. I would be lying if I said that I was comfortable reading the most brutal scenes in this novel...I was not. In fact, I was quite uncomfortable. I can see how many people could not read this novel. It is not for the faint of heart.

One last thing, I would like to say that I am disappointed in the rude and graphic language with which Ms. Feehan is using in her sex/love scenes. I can think of many other words she can use in place of the ones that she has recently begun to use with frequency in all of her novels...not just the Game series. The crudity takes away from the beauty of what can be between two people. I would truly like to see her back away from the crudity and go back to simplicity. That is why I gave this book a 4 instead of a 5.

In closing, I would say that if you are a fan of the Game series, you should read this book. It is ugly. It is brutal. It is crude...but it also gives you a glimpse of what it is truly like in the military(the Ghostwalkers)...what monsters can lurk within even the stillest of waters (Jack, Ken, and really all of the Ghostwalkers)...and how far human depravity can really sink (Whitney). Again, a necessary addition, but it is not a comfortable book to read.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than her last one!!!!!! WOW, March 5, 2007

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This review is from: Deadly Game (GhostWalkers, Book 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

Christine Feehan has done it again, and I admitt I am amazed at her ability to make the Game books better and better. This one is no exception and takes up where CONSPIRACY GAME left off.

Ken Norton is the twin brother of Jack Norton they are members of the elite Ghostwalkers, both are matchless snipers. Jack has settled down with Briony and now Ken encounters Marigold, Briony's twin sister, on a mission. He captures her and intends to bring her to Briony. However, alot of things began to go wrong and they realize there are many plots by DR Whitney that they have to overcome.

Mari is trying to reach a Senator to tell him of the inhumanity paracticed by Dr Whitney. She is captured by Ken and finds herself drawn to the hard, scarred man who is determined to find Whitney and protect her. The scars over all of Ken's body do not in any way repulse Mari. She finds him strangely compelling. But she must return to her sisters, they are being forced to mate with the animalistic men whitney chooses for them.

It seems that Whitney has alot of powerful friends and Ken and Jack are determined to find his compound and rescue the other women held there.

The fight that Ken has to put up with himself is almost as great as the attraction he has for Mari. Two strong willed people fighting for the right to make their own choices. At least now we know Whitney is alive and he is planning something major, what we do not know.

I couldn't put this one down, the action is non stop and the fighting is very well written. You can feel each punch and really adds to the feeling of reality. The romance is hot and heavy and the depth of these characters is what makes this book so appealing.

That is what I think so I encourage you not to miss this one.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as Jack's story., March 1, 2007

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This review is from: Deadly Game (GhostWalkers, Book 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

I was really looking forward to Ken's story. However, Feehan seemed to concentrate too much on Whitney and setting up his insanity. There wasn't much of a story between Ken and Mari. In Conspiracy Game, the relationship between Jack and Briony was more developed. I was looking forward to Briony being involved and spending more time with her sister, not just one page.

It was a good read, but a bit of a let down.