Ryan Decker's Third Album: The Mountain

Dashing Dave: More things blowing up, more fun on the way. Just as book 2 was a bit different from the angle the adventure took than book 1, so book 3 is a bit of a twist from both earlier editions. Same fun characters, great new environments.

One last round in the chamber….

United States on Dec 04, 2023

Curtis Blair: If you like James Bond and things blowing up, you’ll love this book. Decker and the gang are after a major pot operation that turns out to be very well funded.

Canada on Oct 03, 2023

Dan Berger: I found this story easier to follow than some of Konkoly’s. He can lose me when there are layers of interlinked bad guys, although things usually clarify by the end. Here it’s pretty straightforward.

A big Washington linked security firm with a secret dark side has mounted a huge growing operation in northern California’s remote and lawless marijuana lands. The profits will give the company an untraceable source of wealth in the billions with which to fund its secret ops.

It’s a private sector version of the “off the shelf” income source that so preoccupied Bill Casey and Oliver North way back when.

It comes to our characters’ attention when a young man disappears there. His parents are friends of Senator Steele’s. She dispatches Ryan Decker and Harlow Mackenzie on it with unlimited funding.

I like this story. That the United States harbors an area as dangerous as South American or Afghan narco-lands is sobering. Konkoly gives us lots of detail. The West’s wide-open spaces provide endless hiding places for large-scale skulduggery.

The tactical cat and mouse is good, both in the bang-bang and the digital. Decker and another op...

United States on Jul 21, 2023

Batchelder Family: Ryan and Harlow (and crew) continue to stumble onto evil conspiracies. Lots of action. Lots of thrills. And the good guys, well, they, umm, mostly win. Surprised? If so, I’m surprised you made it through the first two Decker books. I’m not complaining: I want the good guys to win. Every time. And I want to enjoy reading about it. And that’s guaranteed with Steven Konkoly. Now, on to book four, and let’s hope I didn’t jinx myself!

United States on Mar 31, 2022

deejay78..: wow what a great writer this guy is as i have had the pleasure of reading all four novels in this series and enjoyed all will defintely be looking forward to my adventures of decker

Australia on May 31, 2021

Stephen AL: Ryan Decker is the person to hire to get rid of a problem that most would fear to tackle- ruthless, without conscience, bullying murderers, who enjoy making the innocent suffer. In this story, the job is to locate the son of a friend of the Senator, gone missing in a marijuana growing region where many have gone missing and are never found. Skinheads, cops turning the other way, all in the control of a higher lawless power. The problem for them is that Decker brings the team, bankroll, brains, and firepower to the show to challenge rule by fear. Good character development in this book of the team supporting him. Some explaining to do as the body count becomes difficult not to notice.

Canada on Sep 14, 2020

Lagoon: If you are going to select one series to follow; one that gives you nigh on non-stop action, sarky dialogue, government conspiracies and, of course, more firepower than you can throw a frag grenade at, then you could do a lot worse than to follow Decker and his crew. This is the third book in the series and, having read all three, this is as good as ever. The plots have some real thought behind them; you will not find that in many similar styled series or one offs. The protagonists are likeable. The conversations don’t make you cringe. There’s a lot to be said for such a series.

There are other great books out there of course. All I’d say is that adding this series to your library would be no bad thing.

United Kingdom on Aug 31, 2020

JimH: Decker and crowd are at it again mowing down the bad guys like ducks at a shooting gallery. So if you're looking for instant solutions to unsolvable situations, he's your guy. Notwithstanding that mini critique, The Mountain was more or less fun to read. There wasn't much of a surprise to how the story would end, so that cost it one star. There was the usual mole in the police station. And Decker is still trying to sort out his love life, so there were occasional interruptions in the narrative for that. But there were not a lot of slow moments which results in a four star review from this reader. Predictable but exciting - what more do you expect for four stars. Looking forward to Skystorm - Decker #4.

United States on Aug 04, 2020

healthysean: Isn't it great when a new book arrived on your kindle, especially when you forgot about it, and here we have Book 3 in the Ryan Decker series....

Investigating a missing persons case on Murder Mountain means looking for trouble in a propulsive thriller by the author of The Raid.

When someone disappears on Northern California’s lawless Murder Mountain, it isn’t news. The vast terrain for illegal marijuana harvests is also a notorious black hole for outsiders. But when that someone is the family friend of the persuasive and righteous Senator Steele, finding him becomes covert investigator Ryan Decker’s mission.

For Decker, the risks of infiltrating a multi-billion-dollar outlaw industry are greater than he could possibly understand. Especially when that industry has flourished into the profitable backbone of a secretive and influential DC-based think tank. And protecting its untraceable revenue in the Emerald Triangle is a band of ruthless white nationalists.

What begins as a seemingly straightforward favour soon pulls Decker and his partner, Harlow Mackenzie, into a high-stakes conspiracy linked to the most cold-blooded puppet masters and power...

United Kingdom on Jul 22, 2020

Richard Lang: Steven Konkoly's always managed to produce some hard edged thrillers, and the Ryan Decker series is no exception. Before starting The Mountan, I went back and re-read the first two Decker novels to refresh my memory of his cast of characters . I'm glad I did, just simply because I spent two days in the world he created.

After the military and the CIA, Decker put his skills to use forming a private World Rescue Group of mostly former operatives. Hunting for the missing daughter of a Senator, everything Ford's wrong at once. The FBI interrupts the op, everyone attempting to rescue the hostages is blown up, and Decker winds up in jail. He survived 8 attempts on his life over two years while at the same time his wife and son are killed, surviving !embers of his team (and their families) are killed, and he's about to testify about when 1) the case is dropped and 2) he's suddenly agree man.

After surviving assassination attempts immediately after release, he partners with Harlow McKenzie and her team of people committed to stopping human trafficking. (She's already in love with him - 10 years prior she was a teenager rescued by his tesm). And that was the first few...

United States on Jul 16, 2020