Pashtun: A Military Thriller
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Pashtun: A Military Thriller

Paperback – September 27, 2016

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Price
$14.80
Format
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
Skyhorse
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1510712003
Dimensions
5.5 x 0.8 x 8.25 inches
Weight
11.4 ounces

Description

About the Author Ron Lealos graduated from Western Washington University and studied fiction under Tom Spanbauer for several years as part of the Dangerous Writing group in Portland, Oregon. In his nonwriting life, he has developed, manufactured, and marketed a rapid home test for the detection of HIV antibodies. Pashtun is his first book. He resides in Vancouver, Washington.

Features & Highlights

  • “A romping ride. . . .
  • Pashtun
  • will keep you turning the pages following hero Frank Morgan’s plunge into assassination, survival, and revenge.” —James Bruno, bestselling author of
  • Havana Queen
  • The Company has a special secret operation planned for one of their top agents: the leaders of the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorist groups are hiding out in Pashtun country, and they must be eliminated. The job falls to a man they have named Frank Morgan—after the Company’s deadliest agent—who stood out as a recruit at Quantico and whose skills resemble those of his namesake. The other soldiers claim Frank’s abilities as a sniper and a tracker border on the supernatural and are more than willing to complete this mission with him.Frank begins his adventure in Afghanistan with another Company-appointed soldier: an indestructible, lyrical Irishman with a cutting sense of humor and a bottle of Jameson never far from hand. After the men rescue a burqa-clad young woman, they soon discover that the Company has not been honest with them and decide to take a second mate under their wing—a giant lieutenant who had been previously mixed up with the Taliban and could provide vital intel for their mission.However, together they quickly learn that oil, drugs, and greed have led to this quest; assassinating the terrorists is not their main objective. With the lines now blurred, their assignment is more complicated than ever.
  • Pashtun
  • —in paperback for the first time—depicts the challenges of military special ops in a boulder-filled landscape, and is told with compassion for those asked to fight the battles.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a
  • New York Times
  • bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Customer Reviews

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Good Book - Horrible Ending

The author was not known to me but I chose this book because I know Americans who fought in Afghanistan and Pashtuns who worked for the US Army in Jalalabad. I have no idea on the accuracy of the the operations but the Pashto cursing is correct. lol He could have put a bit more of the unique culture in the book to make it a better read. He mentions a few things unique to the region but could have easily added more. I was hoping for more of a mix between the average Pashtun and the members of the Taliban, where “No one is Taliban and everyone is Taliban.”

It was written in first person by an American assassin assigned to the region. I could wade through the corny similes and metaphors of the character who sounded like a gumshoe detective because it was an ok read.

The balance of the American, the lush of an Irishman and the Black man was good - and good for some banter. Don’t expect this book to be PC. It’s a book about assassinations, so a bit of gore but nothing to make me sick. Introducing the Afghan woman in distress moved the storyline along. The book was a solid 4 until the last chapter.

It seemed like the author just gave up on the final chapter. I actually reread the last 1.5 chapters because I thought I missed something. I guess it could have been the first in a series but that was not the case. He literally just leaves us hanging on all of the characters. It’s the oddest thing.

I can’t hate it because the author ventured into an area of the world that I have heard so much about - good and bad. But I can’t recommend it either. I was going to reach out to the author via his website or something but discovered he had passed away in the last few years.

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