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 ...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...