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Choosers of the Slain


Lust, Vengeance and Non-stop Action

Mike Harmon's commando-quality retainers agree: their leader, code-named Ghost, is a peculiar one. An ex-Navy-SEAL, there is no stronghold he cannot penetrate, no target he can't take out. But Ghost is also a man struggling to keep the animal inside at bay and his twisted sexual desires satisfied with a rock-hard integrity and incredible force of will.

Now Harmon and his militia have been hired to rescue the daughter of a powerful political mover in America, kidnapped into the Eastern Europe sex trade.

Welcome to the Balkan Route: a notorious pathway for human trafficking carved with blood and brutality and passing through Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo to the heart of darkness itself: sexual snuff houses where powerful politicians pay to rape and murder young women for kicks. Turns out some of those politicians hail from Washington, D.C.

But now the Route is about to be re-Routed, and the balance of power is about to shift dramatically – to the smoking muzzle of one
very angry ex-SEAL's M-4.

Sometimes it takes a bad man to destroy an even more terrible evil. And the baddest of them all is Ghost. They'll be sorry they made his girls cry.

John Ringo, veteran of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne and fivetimes New York Times best-seller with over a million books in print, delivers another blockbuster military technothriller with the latest entry in his “Ghost” saga.

Cover Art by Kurt Miller


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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. This book and series has no connection to reality. Any attempt by the reader to replicate any scene in this series it to be taken at the reader's own risk. For that matter, most of the actions of the main character are illegal under US and international law as well as most of the stricter religions in the world. There is no Valley of the Keldara. Heck, there is no Kildar. And the idea of some Scotts and Vikings getting together to raid the Byzantine Empire is beyond ludicrous. The islands described in a previous book do not exist. Entire regions described in these books do not exist. Any attempt to learn anything from these books is disrecommended by the author, the publisher and the author's mother who wishes to state that he was a very nice boy and she doesn't know what went wrong.

First printing, July 2006

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Ringo, John, 1963-
  Choosers of the slain / John Ringo.
       p. cm.
  Sequel to: Kildar.
  ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-2070-2
  ISBN-10: 1-4165-2070-8
 1. United States. Navy. SEALs--Fiction. 2. Retired military personnel--Fiction. 3. Kidnapping--Fiction. 4. Sex-oriented businesses--Balkan Peninsula--Fiction. 5. Legislators--United States--Fiction. 6. Balkan Peninsula--Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3568.I577C47 2006
  813'.54--dc22
                                                            2006007458

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-2070-2
ISBN-10: 1-4165-2070-8

Copyright© 2006 by John Ringo

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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Baen Books by John Ringo

Ghost
Kildar
Choosers of the Slain
Princess of Wands
A Hymn Before Battle
Gust Front
When the Devil Dances
Hell's Faire
The Hero (with Michael Z. Williamson)
Cally's War (with Julie Cochrane)
Watch on the Rhine (with Tom Kratman)
There Will Be Dragons
Emerald Sea
Against the Tide
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Into the Looking Glass
Von Neumann's War (with Travis S. Taylor, forthcoming)
The Road to Damascus (with Linda Evans)

The Prince Roger Saga with David Weber

March Upcountry
March to the Sea
March to the Stars
We Few

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