"John Ringo - Ghost 01 - Ghost" - читать интересную книгу автора (Ringo John)

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Baen Books by John Ringo

Ghost
Princess of Wands(forthcoming)
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
Into the Looking Glass
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

BOOK ONE
Winter Born


Prologue

Hamid Halal stepped past the two teenage mujahideen, pushed aside a flap of rotting canvas and
ducked to enter the low doorway. The room beyond was small, no more than three meters on a side,
dark and dirty with a litter-strewn, packed-clay floor and granite walls covered in Arabic graffiti. The
only light was from the doorway, blocked by the canvas and his body, and a small paneless window on
the south wall. Despite the size, five heavily armed mujahideen were packed along the sides leaving only
a narrow spot in the middle. In this narrow spot a tall, spare, figure squatted behind a low table, typing on
a laptop computer.

"Great One," Halal said, dropping to both knees and bowing his head. "It is good to see that you truly
survive!"

"Did you believe that Allah would permit the forces of the Great Satan to kill his most valiant leader?" the
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