The Last Patriot: A Thriller
by Brad Thor
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Author: Brad ThorEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-19
ISBN: 1416543848
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Pocket
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- ISBN13: 9781416543848
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of The Last Patriot: A Thriller
Book Review: Interesting concept
Summary: 3 Stars
This book seemed kind of a departure for Thor but a worthy effort I suppose. The creative license used to create this across the ages conspiracy was enough to keep me wanting more and waiting to be filled in as the pages turned but by the end I'll admit I was looking forward to being done with the book. After finishing the First Commandment I was hoping Scot Harvath would become a little more interesting a person and this book didn't really help me feel that in any way.
The concept of why Islamic extremism IS is a interesting idea for Harvath to tackle since he has spent his adult life saving the world from those rogues but I did find myself wondering if this was such an important task then why wasn't it more of a priority to stop the bad guys then the president saying "figure it out like always Scot" or something like that. It is okay in fiction to suspend reality at times like the plot idea but I just had difficulty accepting that there is nobody in our gov't or the world to help with the heavy lifting on this one--just Scot and a professor a few years shy of emeritus status. Maybe that was just me though, and maybe this points to my own insecurity that someday Scot Harvath will die and then there will be nobody in the world to save me from the bad guys.
Again not a bad read but perhaps not worth your money. Early a review commented that the length seemed stretched out and I'd agree. This book could've used some word economy as well as in the last half I was really skimming pages looking for action. At $10 paperback it was hardly a bargain but I didn't regret the money and time invested.
Summary of The Last Patriot: A Thriller
Brad Thor, master of suspense and New York Times bestselling author of The First Commandment, returns with his highest-voltage thriller to date. In a pulse-pounding, adrenaline-charged tour de force, Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath must race to locate an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam dead in its tracks.June 632 A.D.: Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat in Mecca, the Prophet Mohammed shares with his closest companions a final and startling revelation. Within days, he is assassinated.
September 1789: U.S. Minister to France Thomas Jefferson, who is charged with forging a truce with the violent Muslim pirates of the Barbary Coast, makes a shocking discovery - one that could forever impact the world's relationship with Islam.
Present day: When a car bomb explodes outside a Parisian caf?, Scot Harvath is thrust back into the life he has tried so desperately to leave behind.
Saving the intended victim of the attack, Harvath becomes party to an amazing and perilous race to uncover a secret so powerful that militant Islam could be defeated once and for all without firing another shot, dropping another bomb, or launching another covert action.
But as desperate as the American government is to have the information brought to light, there are powerful forces aligned against it - men who are just as determined that Mohammed's mysterious final revelation continue to remain hidden forever.
What Jason Bourne was to the Cold War, Scot Harvath is to the War on Terror. Brad Thor has created "the perfect all-American hero for the post September 11 world" (Nelson DeMille) and will keep readers glued to the pages as he once again takes them across the globe on a heart-pounding chase where the stakes are higher than they have ever been before.
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