In sum, I enjoyed reading this novel and can fully recommend it to fans of thrillers, horror and science fiction, and well as those of you who would like to try something different. The scenes inside the cave are quite graphic and violent at times, but somehow they all felt essential to the story and not gratuitous. None of them are your regular nice guy, yet they show admirable courage, honor, and responsibility for the wellbeing of their team. I also found compelling the dynamic between the characters and their sense of comradeship. The dialogue and descriptions ring with authenticity, and I was especially impressed with all the military language and details. Khost is nonstop suspense, action, and thrills. Indie writers have been in an uproar about ‘authors’ using paid fake reviews to bolster sales. That is, except only one survivor, who has an incredible, terrifying story to tell, and whom nobody believes-nobody except the CIA, which soon sends a top-secret team to deal with the situation… Recently, the whole ‘paid-reviews’ debacle has hit the Indie world by storm.

And it becomes increasingly challenging in the province of Khost, where already an elite team of Delta Force Operators has gone missing. Instead of enhancing the humans, the chemical mutates them into beings that are way beyond human, into something horrifying and evil. They soon put it to the test in the province of Khost, where the Mujahideen hide inside a massive cave complex.īut things go awfully wrong. Afraid of losing, the Soviets develop a chemical weapon unlike any other in history, one with the power to enhance their soldiers in the battlefield. The tale begins in 1984, with the Soviet Union engaged in the bloody war with Afghanistan. Khost was a very pleasant surprise, and I found myself caring about the characters and their predicament and engrossed in the story until the end. Well, as it turned out, I had no reason to be apprehensive. The Alien movies are military science fiction, so I thought that perhaps the two genres would be similar. I’d never read a military horror novel before, though I’ve always been a big fan of the first two Alien movies. I was doubtful when I picked up Khost for review.

Khost by Vincent Hobbes