Product Description

It began as a mission to find a notorious politician whose plane went down in the Congo. But the risky operation took an unexpected turn when Mari, a physically enhanced member of the rescue team, was taken hostage by rebel forces. Now, imprisoned in an isolated compound, Mari has only chance for survival - escape. What she doesn't count on is Ken Norton, expert assassin and himself a GhostWalker warrior, fighting to get behind the prison walls on a mission of his own - one that reaches into Mari's own past and the mysterious fate of her twin sister ...and that will bind Ken and Mari in an intoxicating passion that raises the stakes on the deadliest game of survival they've ever played.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29284 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Review
'satisfying action adventure romance ... Love and danger are a winning combination in Feehan's latest' BOOKLIST 'The exciting and multifaceted world that impressive author Christine Feehan has created continues to improve with age' ROMANTIC TIMES 'Feehan has a knack for bringing vampiric Carpathians to vivid, virile life in her Dark Carpathian novels..." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

About the Author
New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan has thrilled legions of fans with her seductive and sensual 'Dark' Carpathian tales. She has received numerous honours throughout her career including being a nominee for the Romance Writers of America RITA, and receiving a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times.

Customer Reviews

A fantastic Seris
I have thoroughly enjoyed this seris of books by Christine Feehan. With Ken's story is one of my favorites so far, it gives you an insigth into how people feel when faced with killing people for a living and the emotional backlash that get tortured holds. It's nice to see Christine showing that even the big tough men sometimes get hurt and they can't always be stoicly heroic about the experience. The way she portrayed the depth of pain and insecurity Ken felt was fantastic and the explosive relationship between him and Mari kept me up late finishing the book.

Overall a fantastic view into the life of another GhostWalker, although i will say at points in the book i felt as though i had missed a book somewhere as things that had happened had not been explained in previous books.

THE SECOND TWINS
First, I read the book about Jack and Briony, and I loved it. There, Crhistine pictured Ken and Marigold (the second twins), and I was waiting anxiously for the sequel. This is it, and I like even better than the first one.
Even thou Ken and Jack face a similar childhood and some of their inner demons, Briony and Mari are different. One was raised by a family and the other by a megalomanic Psychic doctor. One knew the outside world and the other only the military compound where she was raised (she only leaved it to go on missions).
It is a funny book, pleanty of action and with some of the other Ghostwalkers in it. It seems like a huge conspiracy (like the first one) but you understand better was going on among the different groups. Are they with the bad guys or not???. It is a question that keeps rising while you read the book.
Ken is a tormented character but no more than Jack. The guys always feel, like in all Christina's plots, like their lovers are the most precious things on earth. It is funny.
I should said that I intended to work this week-end but I could not put the book down until I read it. I love it.

Here's hoping it will grow on me
I really don't want to use the word disappointed, but.
Ken's story is really very very good, the action is absolutely well written,non stop and breathtaking, we get to see Dr.Witney's other secret base and see what life is like for those on the inside of it. However for me the book had the emotional content of an Arnie Movie.
Ken is even more tortured an individual than we thought, at one point he even tries to kill himself rather than subject Mari to the monster he believes he is. This is one of the reasons that I find him less likeable than Jack, Jack, despite his feelings, walked away from Briony but then threw himself wholeheartedly into making things right, He wasn't afraid to be who he thought he was, and try and change what he didn't like. Ken just wanted out and thought a bullet was the easiest way.
Mari seems to think that because she hasn't spent time in a home cooking and putting flowers in vases that she's not a proper woman and tries to run away rather than face a future that that's a million times better than the one she thought she was going to have.
I just can't love Ken or Mari in the same way I do Jack and Briony. They just seem "less" as people, and I can't quite put my finger on what IT is. The ending seems rushed and there is no resolution really...although they both declare their love for one another and yes they're planning to live on the mountain, I can't help feeling that Mari will be out the door again at the drop of a hat and Ken will say it's because he's horrible and has to have rough sex to feel anything.
Jack and Briony's relationship whilst fraught with problems seems far more real and you could see how much they really cared deep down and were determined to make their future work. I just didn't get that sense from Ken and Mari.
Sorry guys but here's hoping for another book to tie up the ending.