Another smart alien technology thriller by Patrick Lee. It's a fun ride with furious pacing and nice (but overwhelming) technical edge to it. It can be read as a stand alone novel, but works better if you read the first book in the series (The Breach). Lee is at his best when puzzling over how crazy alien technologies might be used in our present time.

I really like it, but I have a few quibbles. 1. There is a lack of minorities in the book which is funny charge to level at a thriller, but it's true. Almost everyone in the book has an Anglo-sounding name. This is America 2011, where the Greeks and Mexicans and Germans and African-Americans and Armenians? Or even the Irish or Jews? 2. Too many people die by being shot in the head. 3. Travis Chase, our main character, is a little too much of an everyman. I know that's the idea but the guy was more defined in the first book (former corrupt detective/ dead ex-girlfriend). In Ghost Country, we have no sense of how old he is, what he looks like, and he seems to have no personal habits beyond knowing a lot of technical stuff about killing people and maximizing potential outcomes when there are only seconds to spare.

Despite my quibbles (the most serious one being about minorities), I enjoyed this rollercoaster ride of a thriller and am looking forward to the next sequel.