The Last Patriot: A Thriller |
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| Title: | The Last Patriot: A Thriller |
| Author: | Brad Thor |
| Publisher: | Atria Books |
| Type: | Book / Hardcover |
| Publication Date: | 01 July, 2008 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 141654383X / 9781416543831 |
| List Price: | $26.00 |
| You Save: | $7.28 |
| Amazon Price: | $18.72 |
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Product Description
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 café, 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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Customer Reviews:
• Very Timely
17 November, 2009
The book was published in 2008, but hits the nail on the head, especially in light of the terrorist attack at Fort Hood.
- Amazon Customer Review
• A Super Fine, Stay Up All Night Reading Thriller
04 February, 2010
I heard Brad Thor being interviewed on the radio, taking about how George Bush wasn't the first president to go to war against Islam, Thomas Jefferson was when he went to war against the Barbary Pirates. I was intrigued. Needless to say, by the time the interview was over, I wanted to read the book. Sadly it's Scot Harvath's seventh outing and I hadn't read the first six. However, Mr. Thor said in the interview that even though the character is reoccurring, his books are all really written as stand alone novels.
Taking Mr. Thor at his word, I decided to give his book a try and I found I could indeed identify with the characters, though I thought I might have been missing something, knowing those other books were out there. I'd have liked to see Scot's development and I'd've especially liked to have seen how his relationship with President Rutledge had begun, deteriorated then warmed again. But that being said, I enjoyed this book immensely. I bought it the day it came out, finished it during the night.
Thirty-seven-year old, ex-navy seal, ex-presidential protector Scot Harvath is now working for a secret anti-terrorist outfit and is pretty upset the president has let some some bad guys go from Gitmo. He's in Paris with his girlfriend at an outdoor café when he saves Professor Anthony Nichols from being blown to smithereens. It seems Iraq isn't the only place bad guys blow up cars these days and now Scot is sucked right into the thick of it.
Way back when, Mohammed had one final revelation for the Koran, but was assassinated before it was revealed. If it gets out the course of history will be changed and maybe not for the better, at least that's what some really bad people think. Scot's job, of course, find the secret. Bad guys job, of course again, stop Scot.
And where is this secret? Well there's clues out there. One buried in Thomas Jefferson's copy of DON QUOXITE. It seems Cervantes once had been a prisoner of the Barbary pirates. So we read along as Scot races along to find the clues and find the secret and while we're immersed in Scot's world we learn a bit of history, like why the Marines are called leathernecks, why they have that verse in their song "To the shores of Tripoli." Having served in the Marine Corps, I knew the answer to that last one, but you know, I never did know about that leathernecks thing. The Marines in 1815 had collars made of leather on their uniforms to protect themselves from the scimitars the Muslim's used, seems they wanted to keep their heads and if you want to fill your head with a some good escapist reading, you won't be sorry you picked up this book.
- Amazon Customer Review
• So-so Thriller With A Pronounced Political Agenda
28 December, 2009
This was my 1st Brad Thor novel and I thought I had discovered a new author/series to follow.
Unfortunately, while I thought the premise & initial story interesting, esp mixing the whole Thomas Jefferson/ Barbary wars with the current struggle against militant Islam connection, Thor quickly became irritating with the incessant over the top political agenda he pushed. It was not surprising to find a special acknowledgement to Glenn Beck in the end. I see from reviews of some of his other stories they follow the same tack.
I don't appreciate propaganda being stuffed down my throat. This will be my last Brad Thor 'novel'. The average story telling ( Thor is NOT the next Ludlum or LeCarre) doesn't warrant my having to sit through such a blatant agenda. And so unneccesary for the story itself.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Too Biased
15 November, 2009
seemed bias when I read it and not very good at that.
then I read at the end he admires Glen Beck, not I see why.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Interesting Concept
18 January, 2010
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.
- Amazon Customer Review
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