KCR: Kildar, Paladin of Shadows #2 (terrorism, hero, novel)

Cover of Kildar (Paladin of Shadows, Book 2)Kildar, part 2 of "Paladin of Shadows" series (i.e. the Kildar series) is sort of jingoistic fantasy that requires a good setup, and John Ringo delivers. It's a bit slow, but it does have a good ending.

The setup: Mike, who has retired from his days of busting terrorists, is wandering through the world, looking for a place (sort of committing suicide by drinking and f***ing) when he stumbled into a valley where he's rescued by a little girl, and ended up buying the valley (he can afford it from the bounty he got from the previous jobs) and organizing the families into a militia to help defend itself, hires his best friends as trainers, and discovers their true origin. At the end, he defeats the local Chechen threat, and wins the hearts and minds of the locals (which sets up for the later books).

Why I count this book as a jingoistic fantasy? Because the American arrives, outspends everybody, outfights everybody, then outf***s everybody too. Every woman wants to be f***ed by him, and every man was awed by him. And every enemy... winds up dead. Isn't that a jingoistic fantasy?

However, as I said before, the setup is good. Most of the book is about how Mike "Jenkins", i.e. Kildar (he got the title when he bought the valley and the retainers) discovering the valley, learned more about the inhabitants, then hiring people to help setting up the village and training them to be militia (and later, to be commandos). They also learned about various strange customs that Kildar needs to perform for the families, including... ****ing the women, no kidding, not to mention a group of girls who ended up in his harem. Yes, I said harem.

There's plenty of sex, and some direct violence (against bad guys, of course).

If you like this sort of "pulp" fiction, definitely give it a try. Just be warned, this book is a setup, so it's a bit slower than the later books.

Rating: read it!