The Last Patriot: A Thriller Mass Market Author: Visit Amazon's Brad Thor Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1416543848 | Format: PDF
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'As current as tomorrow's headlines ... Brad Thor will kidnap even the most demanding readers, deprive them of sleep, and convert them into instant devotees' DAN BROWN 'Scot Harvath is the perfect all-American hero for the post-September 11th world' NELSON DEMILLE 'Quite possibly the coming of the next Robert Ludlum' Chicago Tribune 'Brad Thor knows how to excite the senses. An adrenaline-charged, slick thriller, packed with suspense that never relents' STEVE BERRY
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About the Author
Brad Thor is the #1
New York Times bestselling author of
Black List,
Full Black,
The Athena Project,
Foreign Influence,
The Apostle,
The Last Patriot,
The First Commandment,
Takedown,
Blowback (recognized by NPR as one of the “100 Best Thrillers of All Time”),
State of the Union,
Path of the Assassin, and
The Lions of Lucerne. Visit his website at BradThor.com.
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- Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; Reprint edition (May 19, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1416543848
- ISBN-13: 978-1416543848
- Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 3.9 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
The character of Scot Harvath has been one of my recent favorites in the last 3-4 years since discovering Thor's books, and 'The Last Patriot' virtually cements this bold character into (at least MY version) of great leading Action/Adventure Hero's.
Controversy is nothing new to Brad Thor by any means...however, with that said, I believe he is courting a whole new set of problems, or seriously potential problems with the storyline here. Religion in general is a very touchy subject, but as we have seen over the last decade or so, even fictionalizing specific events in Muslim History can be viewed as MAJOR Blasphemy--the kind that involves life-threatening retaliation. Don't believe me? Anybody remember Salmon Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses'? 'Nuff said. I heard an interview done with Thor on Glenn Beck and I'm not the only one concerned here. I honestly feel that if somewhere, sometime soon if I read about Brad Thor being the target of Terrorists, well, let's just say it won't surprise me (read the book and you'll understand).
The book, though is a hum-dinger of a story. Easily Thor's best-to-date. Like other reviewers, I like when events in history are tied in with current storylines, and I REALLY like it when its done right...and I am happy to say Thor really nails it with this latest installment. Action on top of intrigue firmly attached to a healthy dose of adrenaline mixed with a Titanic-sized load of action and you have an idea of how well constructed 'The Last Patriot' truly is. I have enjoyed these books a lot since I first began them, but this one seriously places the bar at a level that is amazingly high compared to the previous Tales of Scot Harvath--and THEY were great, if that tells you anything.
Former Navy SEAL thirty-seven year old Scot Horvath has left Homeland Security to get out of the covert operations business and start a fresh new life away from mass murdering terrorists who claim their ideology is blessed by God. He wants a normal life and feels as he closes in on forty undercover operations is a younger persons game. He also remains shook up that his significant other former Naval Explosive Ordinance Technician Tracy Hastings lost an eye and almost her life and almost died at the hands of some rabid avenging assassin.
They talk at a Paris café when Scot notices an Arab setting off an IED that targets University of Virginia Professor Anthony Nichols, who as he vanishes turns out to be a lot more than a highly regarded history teacher. The two retirees soon learn of the discovery of a seventh century version of the Koran in which the Prophet Mohammed informed his disciples of a radically different vision than that found in the Koran of today; if the lost revelation is published the Jihad extremists would lose much of their religious claims. Clues lead to President Jefferson's war on the Tripoli pirates and the third president's notes in an original copy of Don Quixote. Although they expect to learn more investigating Monticello, the American in Paris and President Jack Rutledge must end their estrangement caused by the incidents in his last assignment (see THE FIRST COMMANDMENT) while the Muslim extremists want the two Americans stopped.
This is an exhilarating thriller mindful of the Da Vinci Code but different that will hook the audience from the moment that Scot and Tracy learn of the lost revelation and never slows down until the final incredible spin.
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