Jack was trained to disappear.
For years, he followed orders without hesitation, believing distance was the same as survival. Then one mission crossed a line that could not be uncrossed… and the man he was vanished with it.
Now Jack lives alone, hidden deep in the forest, building a life from routine, isolation, and silence. He asks for nothing from the world and expects nothing in return. But silence has a way of carrying memory, and distance does not erase consequence. When strangers begin to notice him… when eyes linger too long and the quiet starts to feel watched… Jack realizes the past has not finished with him. The system that made him what he is has not let him go. And GHOSTS, once seen, do not stay buried.
GHOST is a tense, atmospheric novel about guilt, obedience, and the cost of surviving what should never have been done. It asks a simple, unsettling question: What happens to the man who follows the order… and has to live with it?
John Berry was born in Rhodesia, which is now called Zimbabwe. He lived there for six years then emigrated to Durban, South Africa. He went to Marist Brothers College. After matriculation, he did national service as a paratrooper and fought in the Angolan war in 1975. He traveled extensively, lived in England for two years, then emigrated to Brisbane, Australia. He spends his time researching and writing fiction stories.