Black List: A Thriller

First rate thriller with Scott Harvard and Reed Carlton running separate ops. Action packed from the start and then it keeps getting better!Another winner from Brad Thor.

I enjoyed it and appreciated that it had a different slant than some of his others I had recently read. It's pretty real and I often wonder if this kind of thing is on the horizon.

"... [T]here was a very serious threat against the nation, that it was being coordinated within the government ..." (p. 273).An adrenaline junkie suspense thriller. From the start, it blasts from normal to hyper-kinetic warp speed. A whirlwind of nonstop action. Total escapism to a world of extreme hazard.

In a plot that should keep us all awake at night, Scott and his Athena counterparts along with his friend the Troll combine to us all safe again from a plot that touches a little to close to our psyche!!!Well done again Mr Thor, bravo!!!

I've bought all the Brad Thor books, and have read most of them...but just finished "Black List," and am disappointed. Not sure what's wrong with Thor lately, but the writing is going down hill...and in this book, nothing happened.Yes, nothing...unless you consider the usual stuff like beating up guys tied up in chairs and waterboarding a guy as something "happening," there was very little action in this book.And if I read one more Thor book where Harvath's accomplices are "highly trained highly skilled and beautiful women assassins," that will be the last one. Get real. "The Athena Project" and now "Black List"...too many unbelievable women characters. If I wanted that junk I would start reading "Wonder Woman" comic books. No thanks.And why doesn't Thor learn to write realistic radio transmissions? Harvath is in the process of infiltrating the bad guys' hide out, and gets on the radio to call his henchwoman:"Overwatch. This is Norseman. Do you copy? Over.""This is Overwatch," she replied. "I copy you, Norseman. Over."Really????? In a combat situation, sneaking into the enemy's building, he bothers to ask if his henchwoman can hear him? Even amateurs like my unit in Vietnam (not super-duper special forces guys) didn't talk that way...we knew better...way too much chatter (wasted word) and too much danger of someone else hearing it.A real guy like Harvath would never make that kind of mistake.So, who cares about reality? Not that big a deal, maybe...but come on , man...if you're going to write this stuff, give us an exciting reason for what the bad guys are doing, and raise the stakes to some kind of apocalyptic plot...not just boring stuff of flying around the world, stopping in various countries, torturing guys tied up in chairs, and then sneaking into the bad guys' castle.Thor's books used to be great...maybe not so much anymore...I'm sorry about that.