I've read many reviews of this book and am relieved to discover I'm not the only one who's dissatisfied with it. Apparently a lot of people are ticked off with the author's radical right wing agenda and his portrayal of liberals and Democrats as the source of all that is evil in our country. Righ...
Harvath is out finding terrorist cells in some of the major cities in Europe only to find out a much bigger event is planned for the U.S.The Troll appears in this book again and he is the main reason Harvath is back hunting down terrorists. He is trying to clear The Troll's name.In this book Har...
"Meh" is how I feel about this book. I was hoping to love it given the female delta team concept, but I found it predicable without enough character development for me to get into it anyway. I didn't like how all 4 girls were introduced in quick back-to-back descriptions instead of through the pr...
This was the 8th book in the Scot Harvath series, and some new characters have been introduced. Starting with the newly elected US President. As with a lot of politicians they see the chance to gain some political mileage by trimming back in various areas, in this case the intelligence community....
A good yarn, but a little far out, even for Thor. Kinda a male fantasy of what female spies would be like.
Another great thriller by Thor featuring Scott Harvath as the counter-terrorism operative. In this story he is out to rescue a CARE doctor stationed in Afghanistan who was kidnapped by the Taliban.Within the story is another side story involving the newly elected President Alden. One of his fem...
The plot of the novel was acceptable, if unspectacular, but seemed like a series of discarded Bond plot ideas more than anything else -- specifically, having to repeatedly read about the antagonist's silver eyes that turn black hammered home that bad Bond villain feel. There is also a good amoun...
This book may have passed for a decent, somewhat badly written yet still entertaining, espionage thriller. However, any chance the book had was ruined by the fact that it functioned better as a piece of right wing propaganda than as a piece of entertainment.I don't really care what Brad Thor's po...
This is for the Audible Version:What did you love best about State of the Union? Love is a big word. I enjoyed the majority of State of the Union. The plot was interesting, character development for the key players was done effectively, and the overall pace was perfect for a book in this particu...
Starting to read this book I wanted to love it however, it never really picked up for me. The sign of a fantastic thriller is the desire to stay up much later than you ought to trying to fly through the book as quickly as possible. This is done to see how all of the crazy situations are resolved....
Brad Thor, the New York Times bestselling author of Takedown, delivers an explosive international thriller featuring Navy SEAL turned Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath, who somewhere, somehow, has left the wrong person alive. A master assassin. A vendetta years in the making. And a counte...
BLOWBACKFunction: noun: an unforeseen and unwanted effect, result, or set of repercussions: CIA code name for an agent or operation that has turned on itscreators: botched covert actionFormer Navy SEAL Scot Harvath in an instant realizes he's blown and many fatwa will be placed upon his head. Al ...
Alexandra Ivanova said as Harvath stepped into her room. “Now.” He ignored the request, as well as the gun she had pointed at him. “You and I need to talk first.” “We don’t have anything to talk about.” Harvath closed the doo...
Mist clung to the damp jungle road. Scot Harvath pulled out his phone and watched the video again. How many times had he seen it now? A hundred? Two hundred? It was shaky and parts were out of focus. A team in biohazard suits could be seen going int...
There was a milk crate for a nightstand and atop it a table lamp with an exposed bulb and no shade. A small TV, DVD player, and cushions scattered across the floor completed the makeshift dormitory cum rec room. In the corner he noticed a couple of old hookah pipes.Sitting on cushions in front of...
As Tang opened it, the hinges groaned in protest. It was a terrible sound; like someone moaning in pain. He debated whether to close it, but knew that an open door would attract attention. Lifting up on the handle, he helped alleviate the pressure on the hinges and the door closed more quietly th...
He had white hair, a thick white beard, and towered over Harvath by a good five inches and an additional seventy-five pounds. He wore dark jeans, a pair of black Frye boots, and a faded Dallas Cowboys jersey. On his right wrist was a copper bracelet—the kind used for warding off arthritis, and on...
They should have had much more information before moving on Tsui. They didn’t even have a description. All Nicholas could tell him was that Tsui was Asian, possibly Taiwanese. That was it. He didn’t even have any idea how old he was, though based on their interactions, he believed he was young; m...
To enter the village of Asadoulah Badar, the young man Dr. Atash had treated for a broken jaw, Harvath, Gallagher, and Fontaine would have to be invited. The best way, especially for Westerners, to secure such an invitation was to offer the village shura something they needed. Based on Gallagher’...
In fact, he shouldn’t even have let her into his SUV, but the picture she had removed from her purse and pressed up against the window had changed everything. It showed her hugging her older sister, Caroline, and the two of them laughing. But it wasn’t just the picture that had changed his mind, ...
The infrared markers, which had been carefully laid out on the rear deck of the ship beneath him, should have been floating—rolling with the swell of the ocean—waiting for him, not racing up to meet him like tracer fire. He was coming in way too fast. He’d had no choice. T...
She was angry with everyone—with Bentzi, with Damien, with her father for never finding her, never rescuing her after she was kidnapped. The one person she wasn’t angry with was herself. She had an excellent quality of life in Israel. She had an apartment and a car. She sh...
Someone must be drowning, Harvath thought. Looking at Lara, he wondered if she was thinking the same thing too. Then he saw the expression on her face and realized the wave of painful memories that must have been crashing against the rocks of her mind right now. Why today?...