Ancient Weapon, Modern Panic: Harvath Back on the Chessboard

⭐⭐⭐⭐ In Blowback (Scot Harvath #4), Brad Thor pulls his sidelined hero back into action after Harvath’s counterterrorism career goes down in flames—torched by political maneuvering and a senator with presidential ambitions. When a terrifying new threat emerges, the president quietly brings Harvath back inside, because when things get ugly, he’s still the guy you call. The central premise is classic Thor excess in the best and worst ways. An ancient weapon, discovered deep beneath an Alpine glacier, was once designed to wipe out the Roman Empire. Now a shadowy organization plans to use it to cripple the modern world. Harvath races across Europe to stop it, and the pace rarely lets […]

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Blowback

  James Patterson is hit or miss with me. This one was a hit in my book. Imagine this: the president of the United States is brilliant but has also lost his mind. Farfetched? Clearly not! President Keegan Barrett, the former director of the CIA, has a dangerous skill set. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab to get revenge. He orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, even though the Central Intelligence Agency is forbidden to operate on American soil. As CIA agents, they’ve sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all threats, foreign […]

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