Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Choke Point

This book really renews the Ghost Recon series. It tells the story of the ghost team featured in the future soldier game. It gives you some insight and back story of the team of Pepper, 30k, and Kozak. Sadly Capitan Ferguson aka Ghost Lead is replaced by a new ghost team leader. All in all, the story is interesting and exciting and a little more straight forward than the story in the game. I was disappointed that Scott Mitchell (the big boss and Ghost Lead in the original series) wasn't given more of a role in the story. Overall it is a great book and hopefully we will get a second and third installment in the new Ghost Recon series. If you haven't read any of the older Ghost Recon books by David Michaels, I can't recommend them enough. The titles Ghost Recon, and "GR" Combat ops are absolutely awesome books following Scott Mitchell on some crazy adventures. There are also a great Splinter Cell and End war series that are worth checking out..

Wow.I've read this book three times and cannot believe how engaging it is, and on so many levels! The ghost team is real - smart, determined, skilled, and well equipped - but also vulnerable and human. I felt I was a part of the team, a part of the decision making, a part of the planning, a part of the action, and ultimately deserving of sharing in their ultimate victory.The bad guys were true to life, the political and geographic intrigue was completely plausible in these days of geopolitical funding of destabilization by wealthy criminals.And the technology was breathtaking. Perhaps nothing really strokes my imagination by reading about short-term future tech. We live in a world where technology is advancing at such a staggering pace that today's inconceivably complex technologies will be obsolete in only a few years, and everything in the book seems to so achievable that one cannot help but wonder if it's already out there, available today to the select few.But it was the character development that really frosted my cake. These characters were so driven, so tough, so smart, and yet so compassionate and committed to their team. It's as though I was actually experiencing the book through their eyes, and at one point I actually was so immersed that I became part of the team. Any author that can bring a book to life in such vivid, Technicolor detail that it becomes real - even if only for a few chapters - is a real badass!My hat is off to you, Peter Telep. I cannot wait to read your next work!

I didn’t expect a lot from a novel based on a video game but I wanted an easy fun read. So far it has been really good. Much better than I was expecting so far. I may give others a closer look

I would recommend this book to any Clancy follower but not those who like their share of sex and literally neck-breaking and blood spouting content of the late visionary's work's. The warfare is too tame for Clancy's style, and Telep has an annoying habit of sugarcoating an abomination humanity know's too well. Only in the final chapters do the f-bombs and harsh expletives burst out of the soldier's mouths as they lie near death on the battlefield. He captures military life, the tactics and jargon very well, the Ghost's self-sacrificing patriotism embedded in every chapter in at least three sentences and self-encouraging inner thoughts not to give up. The Islamic terrorists have a threatening plan to squeeze the West's oil but even if they'd succeeded, it would've unraveled by way of drone strike or an F-16 attack from the air to squash their scheme in a matter of days. BTW, the villains have no personalities. We never if at all hear them speak in fact. They're just seen up close in a chase scene or watched through the scope of a sniper rifle by the Ghost team, and that's at the very end! Their only appearance, then bang, bang, America wins. The book, like Splinter Cell Blacklist Aftermath, takes place after the events of their respective, most recent, games. The team from Future Soldier are the protagonists in Choke Point, with the exception of their in-game squad commander, who's been reassigned or is on leave, I forget which. The team's individual personalities are gratefully, exactly as they had been in the previous game. Though I was disappointed by Kozak, the center of Future Soldier, his personality was just bland, simply a soldier yelling Roger that! or other military terms, although a break-up with his ex-girlfriend was shown in a flashback that was it for his cardboard characterization. The action wasn't that adrenaline pumping, just dull, that's the best word for it, strange to describe fictionalized war like that but's that's what it was. The dialogue was cliche, like Showtime! and synonyms of that word. The only good thing about it is I now have it in my collection of Tom Clancy Ubisoft video game novelizations alongside Splinter Cell and H.A.W.X.

Difficult to put down. Full of almost real life happenings of today in Afghanistan. If I didn't know better I would think this was non-fiction.

Can you believe that? War, guns, shooting and getting shot - and these are still humans! With real feelings and relationship problems—- worked out as they shot back at the bad guys. And just when I was sure they were “done for”, the gut feelings made them heroic and they kept going. Can you tell I loved this book?

While not as credible as his earlier Ghost Recon story, "Choke Point" merits reading. Beginning in Latin America and ending in Indonesia presents realistic and remarkable settings because I have lived in both places. Story line stays within "not far-fetched" lines at all. His characters behave in the predictable ways of warriors who possess extra-fine tuned skills and prowess. A good read that ends too quickly.

Watching Scott Mitchell through this series of books has been wonderful. I really enjoyed this. It was well worth the read and the money spent. Once you start reading this series it's hard to stop. Each book is a quick and fun read, and if you read all three together it's really fun. Highly recommended!

Playing and enjoying

I bought 2 books and for each of them the description read "The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged."You can clearly tell from the pictures that this is not the situation. One of them even got some water/rain on it (see images with "waving", yellow-ish pages).It's a pity, because i also ordered the first Ghost Recon book from the same vendor some weeks ago and that one was actually in very good shape...but these two really do not fit the description. If i knew it, i wouldn't have bought them.

The story flowed well, like a video game that you could pick up and put down - but when you come back to it you realise how good it is. The characters were likeable and you wanted to know what happened to them

Captured a great deal of details on current weapons. I look forward to reading the next stunning instalment on my next holiday.

_FAST PACED BOOK, HARD TO PUT DOWN ONCE YOU START. HE NEVER FAILS TO KEEP YOU ENGROSSED IN THE SUBJECT MATTER IN REGARD TO THE CURRENT SITUATION HAPPENING THROUGH OUT THE WORLD.