Ruthless Game

Ruthless Games by Christine Feehan

GhostWalker Kane Cannon is pure male—animalistic, sexual, protective, instinctive—and his past missions have prepared him for anything. But his newest assignment, to rescue hostages in Mexico, plunges him into a hot zone he never anticipated: the hiding place of Rose Patterson—a fugitive, an ex-lover, a fellow GhostWalker pregnant with his child.

Rose is in flight from the insidious experiments that still haunt her dreams, and from the madman who’d do anything to take her child. Of all the GhostWalkers enlisted to hunt her down, Kane is the only one she can trust. But as their passion reignites, the stakes are raised. Because Kane is now a wanted man as well. And together they’re about to face the most difficult challenge of all: staying together and staying alive.

--Ruthless Game by Christine Feehan, Copyright ©2011 by Christine Feehan, published by Jove Books

My Review

Rose Patterson is pregnant and on the run. The small Mexican town seems to offer exactly what she’s looking for, anonymity with the “protection” of a local drug lord. But when members of the cartel kidnap an innocent mother and daughter, she has to do something. Unfortunately, the people she contacted for help sent in the GhostWalkers and one of them is Kane Cannon, the father of her unborn child.

When Kane discovers Rose is their contact, he’s determined to rescue her along with the hostages. But Rose refuses to get on the rescue chopper without him, and together, they go on the run into the desert. She has a hiding place and there Rose and Kane bring their child into the world.

The peace they find with each other and their son is short-lived, however. They’re under surveillance—though not by the cartel, but by their shared nemesis, Dr. Peter Whitney—and they must find a way to get past their observers and onto their rescue chopper without getting caught.

They make it safely to San Francisco, but their safety is only an illusion. The cartel has placed a million dollar price tag on her head and Dr. Whitney will do anything to get Rose—and more importantly, baby Sebastian—back under his control. But with a traitor within their midst, can Kane and the GhostWalkers keep Rose and Sebastian safe, weed out the traitor, defeat Whitney and end the cartel’s threat?

I give this story THREE AND A HALF STARS.

Street Game

Street Game by Christine Feehan

For Mack McKinley and his team of GhostWalker killing machines, urban warfare is an art form. But despite a hard-won knowledge of the San Francisco Streets, Mack knows from experience that too many things can still go wrong. Danger is just another part of the game—and he’s come face-to-face with a woman who can play just as tough.

She’s Jaimie, a woman with a sapphire stare so potent it can destroy a man. Years ago she and Mack had a connection—volatile, erotic, and electric. Then she vanished. Now she’s walked back into Mack’s life as a spy with too many secrets for her own good. Against all odds, she’s hooking up with Mack one more time to take on an enemy that could destroy them both or bring them together again in one hot, no-holds-barred adrenaline rush.

--Street Game by Christine Feehan, Published 2009 by Jove Books.

Mack and his unit of GhostWalkers are sent to a San Francisco warehouse to take down a group of terrorists and their cache of weapons. Instead, they find Jaimie, a former member of their unit and the woman Mack loves. Was their intel wrong or were they lied to? Determined to get answers and complete their mission of bringing down the terror group Doomsday, the unit sets up a base of operations in and around Jaimie’s warehouse while they try to figure out what’s going on.

The old memories of what they once were to each other refuse to die, as much as Jaimie might like them to, and she and Mack must try to reconcile those feelings while trying to unravel the mystery.

One member of the unit takes down two mystery men found outside the warehouse. The equipment they carried made it clear they were coming after Jaimie. Why? Jaimie, a computer expert, has been hacking into various government computers, gathering data, chasing leads and trying to figure out who all the players are that are backing Peter Whitney and his barbaric experiments. Were the men sent by Whitney? Or someone else?

They trace the mystery men back to their source and, in the way of the GhostWalkers, neutralize their enemy. Meanwhile, what appears to be the kidnapping of two innocent children becomes the potential catalyst to World War III (with America implicated as the instigator against North Korea).j

Can Jaimie, Mack and their team rescue the children and avert war? And can two people going into two different directions ever be together?

It took some time to really get into this story. I didn’t feel like I was fully involved until Chapter 7 when usually her books have me after the first one or two pages. But by Chapter 7 I was fully involved through to the end. But even then, I found it difficult to keep track of the three or four interwoven story lines. When reading this story, you really need to pay attention to what’s going on, but in the end, it’s worth the ride.


I thoroughly enjoy Christine Feehan’s writing. If you’ve never read any of her GhostWalker/Game series, do not start with this one. There’s a very complicated, detailed backstory that would be very difficult to understand unless you’ve read the other stories. Here’s a list of all the books in the GhostWalker series in chronological order:

Shadow Game
Mind Game
Night Game
Conspiracy Game
Deadly Game
Predatory Game
Murder Game
Street Game


Shadow Game introduces the origin of the GhostWalkers and their primary mission - survival. Of the series, Conspiracy Game and Deadly Game are my favorites.

I’ve been reading Christine Feehan for more than five years now and I love her stories and her very intense, passionate characters. Her stories deal with the paranormal (psychic abilities in the GhostWalkers and Drake Sisters series, vampires in the Carpathian series and shapshifters in the Leopard series), so if that does not interest you, then you’ll probably want to read something else, but I would encourage you to give her a try.


I give this story THREE and a HALF STARS. Believe me, I would love to have made it four, but I dropped it down half a star due to the minor difficulty I had following the intense, complex story lines. Christine would normally get Four or Five stars from me.