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Star Scrapper #4
Deadly Ghosts
Hank finally has the political connections he needs but the help comes at a cost.
After Imogen takes drastic action, Hank is forced to grapple with his role as a leader and make some tough choices. These decisions lead him to the financial center of the universe where wealth and poverty clash. Danger is everywhere and nothing comes easy.
But he is also moving up through the ranks as a bounty hunter and has some new leads that will bring him ever closer to Extinction.
When the ghosts of the past come to haunt the present, Hank's crew must fight to safeguard all the things they hold most dear.
Can Hank protect the people around him and uncover the truth about the superweapon threatening the universe?
Find out in Deadly Ghosts, the thrilling new entry in the Star Scrapper series from USA Today Bestselling Author J.N. Chaney and Matthew A. Goodwin.
After Imogen takes drastic action, Hank is forced to grapple with his role as a leader and make some tough choices. These decisions lead him to the financial center of the universe where wealth and poverty clash. Danger is everywhere and nothing comes easy.
But he is also moving up through the ranks as a bounty hunter and has some new leads that will bring him ever closer to Extinction.
When the ghosts of the past come to haunt the present, Hank's crew must fight to safeguard all the things they hold most dear.
Can Hank protect the people around him and uncover the truth about the superweapon threatening the universe?
Find out in Deadly Ghosts, the thrilling new entry in the Star Scrapper series from USA Today Bestselling Author J.N. Chaney and Matthew A. Goodwin.
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358 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 19, 2024
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July 9, 2024
SCI-FI AT IT'S BEST
DEADLY GHOSTS (STAR SCRAPPER BOOK 4) by J.N. Chaney and Matthew A Goodwin is a book and series that is well written, action-packed, intriguing, suspenseful, and thrilling. The storyline is based on a former scrapper who turns bounty hunter with the help of his life-long friend. The two team up with unusual characters to save the known galaxy from extinction from a mass destruction on a galaxy weapon known as Extinction by an A-I and a cult of followers left over from a war that most believe ended over two hundred year ago.
The characters in this series are well defined and your interest will be held throughout as Hank, Lara, Imogen, Alek, Ned, and the rest of Hank's team fight through one battle after another to save the known races from extinction all the while the government is doing everything they can to stop them without taking the time to hear them out on the conflict and death that's heading their way.
I have really enjoyed reading this book and series and hope you will too.
DEADLY GHOSTS (STAR SCRAPPER BOOK 4) by J.N. Chaney and Matthew A Goodwin is a book and series that is well written, action-packed, intriguing, suspenseful, and thrilling. The storyline is based on a former scrapper who turns bounty hunter with the help of his life-long friend. The two team up with unusual characters to save the known galaxy from extinction from a mass destruction on a galaxy weapon known as Extinction by an A-I and a cult of followers left over from a war that most believe ended over two hundred year ago.
The characters in this series are well defined and your interest will be held throughout as Hank, Lara, Imogen, Alek, Ned, and the rest of Hank's team fight through one battle after another to save the known races from extinction all the while the government is doing everything they can to stop them without taking the time to hear them out on the conflict and death that's heading their way.
I have really enjoyed reading this book and series and hope you will too.
May 20, 2024
Ya gotta read it!!
More twists than the Mississippi River. Very good character development, with a forward charging story. I want the next book!!
More twists than the Mississippi River. Very good character development, with a forward charging story. I want the next book!!
July 14, 2024
Hank Spears and Lara Shen, Bounty Hunters, are headed back to the Conclave or Bounty Hunter HQ with their prisoner, Shep, a cyborg they found leading a sect of the Peacers. He was actually using these people to supply bodies to the evil AI who turned them into cyborgs like him. This person was pure evil who had lived over 200 years building an army for the evil AI. Right now he was secured on the *Buzzard* in their makeshift jail.
Then Imogen, the former Inquisitor Acolyte, quietly sneaks out of her room and proceeds to the prisoner holding area. There is quickly stabs and kills the cyborg only to be caught by Hank and Lara! Lara has never trusted Imogen and can’t stand that she’s allowed to travel on the *Buzzard.* This incident proves that she shouldn’t ever be trusted, but Hank still isn’t convinced. When he questions Imogen as to why she did the killing, she says the cyborg was pure evil and deserved to die for what he had done and was doing. Hank didn’t disagree, but he would have like to had some time to interrogate the cyborg to see if he could locate any more of his kind. That option is now dead also.
So, Hank and Lara take the small sect of Peacers that were being led by Shep, to their secret space station being ran by Libby. The space station has gone from an empty scary place to one partially full of busy people. They have cleaned up and rehabilitated several areas of the station so these people now have a secure place to live. They also have indicated they want to help Hank, Lara and Ned in their pursuit of the evil AI.
Now that Imogen’s Aunt and Uncle have been rescued, it’s her turn to identify her high level political contacts to see if they can get someone in the Consortium to listen to them. Edwin, the anti-social genius, has been formulating data on the actives of the various actions of the evil AI and the weapon Codenamed: Extinction. With this information they hope to present it to Uncle Vince, governor of the planet Parm. He’s an elitist who governs the richest planet in the galaxy. It’s also the most populated with most of the people living in squalor on the planet surface while the rich live high above in skyscrapers.
Uncle Vince seems to love Imogen very much, but he did nothing when he knew that she had been forced to join the Inquisition as an Acolyte. But, he was willing to listen to Hank who presented him with a disc of all the information they had gathered. Still, Vince needed more if he was to present this to the Consortium High Council. Then Uncle Vince gets attacked by an unseen assassin. He hires Bounty Hunter Hank Spears to find who attacked him and deal with it. If he does this successfully, Vince will do even more towards helping Hanks cause. So Hank has to find an assassin that seems to be nothing by vapor!
This is where the Ghost of Korfuu comes into the picture. This seems to be a legend about a race of aliens that can transform from solid matter into a gas. So how does one kill something they can’t even see. Hank has to find a way. Meanwhile, Lara and Alex are elsewhere trying to follow up leads on the whereabouts of the cyborg labs. They think they have such led when a group of people report that their children are being abducted at various times without any trace of their kidnappers. This sounds like something the cyborgs would do in order to modify and grow their on cyborg warriors.
As you’ll read, Hank, Lara and Ned have a lot on their hands. They don’t seem to be getting much closer to solving this Codename: Extinction weapons location than they did before, but everything leads to something new they need to explore. They finally get a break, but it doesn’t end the way they want. Imogen has been captured, at first on purpose, but later by a huge mistake. She might have to pay for this mistake with her life.
The series continues in book 5, “Inquisitor’s Wrath”, now available on Amazon.
Then Imogen, the former Inquisitor Acolyte, quietly sneaks out of her room and proceeds to the prisoner holding area. There is quickly stabs and kills the cyborg only to be caught by Hank and Lara! Lara has never trusted Imogen and can’t stand that she’s allowed to travel on the *Buzzard.* This incident proves that she shouldn’t ever be trusted, but Hank still isn’t convinced. When he questions Imogen as to why she did the killing, she says the cyborg was pure evil and deserved to die for what he had done and was doing. Hank didn’t disagree, but he would have like to had some time to interrogate the cyborg to see if he could locate any more of his kind. That option is now dead also.
So, Hank and Lara take the small sect of Peacers that were being led by Shep, to their secret space station being ran by Libby. The space station has gone from an empty scary place to one partially full of busy people. They have cleaned up and rehabilitated several areas of the station so these people now have a secure place to live. They also have indicated they want to help Hank, Lara and Ned in their pursuit of the evil AI.
Now that Imogen’s Aunt and Uncle have been rescued, it’s her turn to identify her high level political contacts to see if they can get someone in the Consortium to listen to them. Edwin, the anti-social genius, has been formulating data on the actives of the various actions of the evil AI and the weapon Codenamed: Extinction. With this information they hope to present it to Uncle Vince, governor of the planet Parm. He’s an elitist who governs the richest planet in the galaxy. It’s also the most populated with most of the people living in squalor on the planet surface while the rich live high above in skyscrapers.
Uncle Vince seems to love Imogen very much, but he did nothing when he knew that she had been forced to join the Inquisition as an Acolyte. But, he was willing to listen to Hank who presented him with a disc of all the information they had gathered. Still, Vince needed more if he was to present this to the Consortium High Council. Then Uncle Vince gets attacked by an unseen assassin. He hires Bounty Hunter Hank Spears to find who attacked him and deal with it. If he does this successfully, Vince will do even more towards helping Hanks cause. So Hank has to find an assassin that seems to be nothing by vapor!
This is where the Ghost of Korfuu comes into the picture. This seems to be a legend about a race of aliens that can transform from solid matter into a gas. So how does one kill something they can’t even see. Hank has to find a way. Meanwhile, Lara and Alex are elsewhere trying to follow up leads on the whereabouts of the cyborg labs. They think they have such led when a group of people report that their children are being abducted at various times without any trace of their kidnappers. This sounds like something the cyborgs would do in order to modify and grow their on cyborg warriors.
As you’ll read, Hank, Lara and Ned have a lot on their hands. They don’t seem to be getting much closer to solving this Codename: Extinction weapons location than they did before, but everything leads to something new they need to explore. They finally get a break, but it doesn’t end the way they want. Imogen has been captured, at first on purpose, but later by a huge mistake. She might have to pay for this mistake with her life.
The series continues in book 5, “Inquisitor’s Wrath”, now available on Amazon.
May 19, 2024
Too much jibber jabber
I really couldn't get into this one. Seems like most of the book was spent talking about what they were going to do, and how great each other was, or going to be, or reminiscing of other tear dropping moments. A lot of flag waving moments where I was expecting fire works and sparklers. Takes almost the end of the book before anything major happens. Pretty much a cliffhanger prequel to the next book.
I really couldn't get into this one. Seems like most of the book was spent talking about what they were going to do, and how great each other was, or going to be, or reminiscing of other tear dropping moments. A lot of flag waving moments where I was expecting fire works and sparklers. Takes almost the end of the book before anything major happens. Pretty much a cliffhanger prequel to the next book.
June 28, 2024
series. is getting better and better
Enjoyable read. Well crafted and concealed plot twists that aren’t far fetched. No “and the a miracle occurs “ scenes just to get to the next plot twist.
Enjoyable read. Well crafted and concealed plot twists that aren’t far fetched. No “and the a miracle occurs “ scenes just to get to the next plot twist.
July 14, 2024
Great series
I'm amazed that this author can write so many fantastic novels, I hope that he never stops writing. His books are some of the best Entertainment I have read and worth the time to read them. Thank you for a very fun entertaining read.
I'm amazed that this author can write so many fantastic novels, I hope that he never stops writing. His books are some of the best Entertainment I have read and worth the time to read them. Thank you for a very fun entertaining read.
December 6, 2024
I don't know why I'm just not into this book, but I've gotten really bored. It might be the disconnect between Neil Thorne's narration and the personality of the character. Or his terrible British accent for one of the characters. But it's just not working for me.
April 23, 2025
Unstoppable action.
Just when you think things are starting to come together, the bottom falls out. . . again. Our hero and his burgeoning team manage an incredible rescue, but it costs them dearly. And the evil Inquisitors are closing in.
Just when you think things are starting to come together, the bottom falls out. . . again. Our hero and his burgeoning team manage an incredible rescue, but it costs them dearly. And the evil Inquisitors are closing in.
November 17, 2024
Top Notch Science Fiction!
May 30, 2025
A good fourth book
This was a good fourth book in the series . The plot continues to expand and builds on previous books. The characters grow and find their place in the universe.
This was a good fourth book in the series . The plot continues to expand and builds on previous books. The characters grow and find their place in the universe.
July 17, 2025
Good story four you
September 29, 2024
Great series!
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