The Lions of Lucerne (Scot Harvath 1)
by Brad Thor
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Author: Brad ThorEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-11-01
ISBN: 0743436741
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Pocket Star
Book Reviews of The Lions of Lucerne (Scot Harvath 1)
Book Review: Another winner for Mr. Thor...
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was freaking awesome! I wish I could be more intellectual but I don't feel like it. I was in a slight book funk (tons of books to choose from, but nothing really jumping out at me) and trying to figure out what to read next. For reasons that I'm sure can only be tracked back to my childhood, I simply ABHOR reading mass market sized books. My phobia is so bad that I don't even peruse books in that format because of the size, the feel, and the size of the font.
So what made me choose one this time? Two words: Brad Freaking Thor! This guy has the political-non-stop-thriller genre on lock!! And this book had the perfect formula to pull me from my slight book funk. I choose this book because of the premise that someone would actually have the cojones to kidnap the president! Knowing Scot Harvath, there would be hell to pay! And there was... oh my goodness there was!!
Brad Thor's books are always fast paced and quick, but `Lions' easily tops the list as one of the fastest ones and also one of his better ones. I laugh in the face of people who say "this isn't real" or "the hero is to over-the-top". Ummm... yeah! This book is FICTION Mc. Fly! I read books to escape and if that means that the story takes on a small air of disbelief, I'm completely OK with that. That being said, I think Thor's insight to our government and our government's enemies are uncanny and only add to his stories.
This was the perfect `take me away with one heck of story' story. Scot Harvath is a perfect hero that takes out perfect villains in a not so perfect world and I'm the perfect guy to read them.
Summary of The Lions of Lucerne (Scot Harvath 1)
On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the unthinkable has just become a nightmarish reality; thirty Secret Service agents have been viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States kidnapped by one of the most lethal terrorist organizations in the Middle East - the Fatah Revolutionary Council. But surviving agent and ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath doesn't believe the Fatah Revolutionary Council is responsible for the attack. Driven by his professional code of duty and honor, Harvath creates his own rules to get some answers. But his search for the truth raises the blood pressure of his superiors...and casts his own life in mortal jeopardy. The deadly machinations have been set in motion by a shadowy coalition, comprising some of the highest-ranking officials in government and business - men who operate above the law, men who realize the threat Harvath poses to their hidden agenda...men who will do anything to stop him.In this incredibly fast-paced thriller, a conspiracy hatched close to the Oval Office results in the kidnapping of the president and the slaughter of a company of Secret Service agents commanded by ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath. The story careers from the ski slopes of Utah to the top of Switzerland's Mount Pilatus and sets Scot on an impossible mission: recover the president, evade renegade Swiss spy Gerhard Miner and his cadre of trained agents, and elude the American conspirators who are hot on his trail. Framed for murder, his reputation in tatters, his former colleagues turned against him, Harvath finds an unlikely ally in a beautiful Swiss prosecutor who's been checkmated by Miner once too often. Together they play a high-stakes game of mixed "doubles" to save the president and uncover the conspiracy. Brad Thor's debut novel is a tightly wound spy tale that makes up in excitement what it lacks in subtlety and character development. Ludlum fans will love it. --Jane Adams
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