A Deeper Blue (Ghost Series #5) Book

I can't give this series any sort of lucid and rational recommendation as I am a little conflicted about my enjoyment of them but the more I read these books, the more I come to think this is John Ringo's 21st Century equivalent to Robert Howard's Conan - a 'Boys (Man's)Own Adventure' for Modern Times.

Where readers in the 30's were scandalized by the archetypal but brutish exploits of the Cimmerian and his unapologetically thieving ways and dalliances with thinly veiled ladies of the bodacious sort, current PC bosom-heavers are disgusted by the unenlightened actions and desires of the protagonist who is essentially the modern, military version of Conan - an action orientated, military tech proficient ex Navy Seal hero who is highly partial to Beers, Babes, Bullets and Bondage and not necessarily in that order.

As a self-identified liberal, I'd find it hard to explicitly argue the merits of this series to someone who shares my general point of view in regards to (baseline) feminism and pacifism etc... but as someone whose traveled and lived around the world from birth, I realize that evil does exist and sometimes demands to be terminated with all prejudice and that men and women while all sharing universal humanist traits blah blah are different from one person to another, proclivity wise and there's just something primally enjoyable about good destroying evil in such spectacular fashion, if that good does have an admitted dark side to it.

I don't know - I have a hard time with idiots who fawn all over these books like some righteous birthright of evolutionary psychology but I feel the same discomfort from hand wringing, moral-relativist twits who 'deplore the sexual politics and violent war mongering' of this series but still can't get enough of the Walking Dead and Crossed etc...

All I can say is I had a huge grin on my face for most of this series even if a large majority of those were an incredulous grimace at the audacity of Ringo (read his own comments about this series - interesting) to 'go there' and virtually everyone who who I've enjoyed debating and talking about issues with seemed to share my perverse enjoyment of these books - even if their loved ones were just as horrified by these..... which of course just makes these even more of a perverse pleasure.