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Book Review: “Use of Force” by Brad Thor

Genre: Thriller If I counted correctly, this is book #18 in the Scot Harvath series. Scot Harvath and his team are at Burning Man in Nevada chasing terrorists who are planning to bomb several sites within Burning Man. The team mostly succeeds. Mostly. Sometime later, a terrorist cell kills hundreds in Spain and Scot and…
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Book Review: “Foreign Agent” by Brad Thor

Genre: Thriller An unprecedented number of deadly attacks on the U.S.A. by ISIS has everyone on edge. A highly trained paramilitary CIA squad from the super secret Special Activities Division in Iraq is attacked by ISIS and totally wiped out. The U.S. Secretary of Defense, Richard Devon, is in the Turkey for high level talks…
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Book Review: “Code of Conduct” by Brad Thor

Genre: Thriller Pierre Damien is rich beyond belief. Life has been good to him, and to keep that streak going, Helena, his current girlfriend, is beautiful, caring, and best of all….she loves him without question. Pierre has work to do coordinating the plan he has conjured up to make the world a better place, a…
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Book Review: “Act of War” by Brad Thor

Genre: Thriller A meeting between a CIA agent and his informant in Hong Kong leads to a shocking discovery. China has instituted a new form of warfare, unrestricted warfare, and the first victim will be the United States. In fact……”Snow Dragon” has already started, and the U.S. needs to stop it before millions die. CIA…
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Book Review: “Hidden Order” by Brad Thor

Genre: Thriller Written in 2013….but cut from today’s headlines (Jan 6, 2021…never forget who encouraged the insurrection): “When that happens, the United States is going to need its very best and very brightest to push back the darkness and take the fight to any enemy that would see us destroyed, both foreign and domestic.” Sea…
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Book Review: “Black List” by Brad Thor

Genre: Thriller Note: Two years ago I stopped reading “Full Black” on page 340, a “clunker”, but, I gave it my best try considering the dark times just starting in 2017. In 2019, I decided to pick up Brad Thor again. “Black List” is awesome! Caroline Romero is being followed. An employee of the top…
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Book Review: “Foreign Influence” by Brad Thor

Genre: Thriller Inner Mongolia An elite force under the direction of a man with liver spotted hands in London obliterates a secret military base (designated 243). Unbeknownst to the world, a horrifying worldwide terror network has just changed hands. Chicago A woman walking home from an after work celebration is run over by a taxi…
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Book Review: “The Athena Project” by Brad Thor

Genre: Thriller The Delta Force is an organization, much like the SEALS, that is used by the U.S. Government for secret operations around the world. The Delta Force operatives are, mostly, men. But there is one special division where the operatives are beautiful, athletic, extremely intelligent women. The advantages when infiltrating male dominated terrorist organizations…
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Book Review: “The Apostle” by Brad Thor

Genre: Thriller (Scot Harvath in Afghanistan) Dr. Julia Gallo was helping the poor in Afghanistan until she was captured by Taliban leader Mullah Massoud and his sidekick, Russian intelligence officer, Sergei Simonov. The ransom demand is the return of the al-Qaeda terrorist Mustafa Khan who is currently in an Afghan prison. Julia’s mother is the…
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Book Review: "The Last Patriot" by Brad Thor

Book Review Genre: Thriller Rating: 3.5 WaterTowers (a more intellectual Scot Harvath) Key Points Muslims today believe that the Koran is a perfect, complete, document. In 1972, workers restoring the Great Mosque at Sana’a in Yemen discovered what was believed to have been lost parchments from the original Koran. Thomas Jefferson (yes, that Thomas Jefferson) owned a first edition…

