The Last Patriot: A Thriller
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend 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… Product details and pricing info |
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128 Customer Reviews Posted
- Not Favorite
- Over the last 8 weeks I've read all the Brad Thor novels. This wasn't the best by a long shot. I started with The First Commandment. I enjoyed the story, but these are books I took to the beach. I wasn't expecting to learn brain surgery.
- 2008-08-09, 1 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A very fun, and interesting read.
- I flew through this book without noticing. It is well written and has a good mix of real history and fiction.
- 2008-08-06, 3 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A page turner!
- Brad Thor has written a book that will keep you reading into the early hours of the morning! Very well written and keeps you guessing till the end. Made me hopeful that our country never comes to this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great Book!!! - 2008-08-05, 3 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Forcing the hand of radical Islam?
- In "The Last Patriot," our hero Scot Harvath picks up the story six months after the conclusion of Brad Thor's previous novel, "The First Commandment." Agent Harvath and his lady love Tracy Miller are hanging out in Parish trying to forget about their violent past and build a new life together.
Unfortunately, the past has a nasty way of catching up with such people, especially when it involves unresolved issues about duty, honor and safety. Harvath and Miller are quickly hurled back into the espionage business after witnessing a car bombing outside a quiet Parisian bookstore. And we're off!
The plot line is a bit more complicated this time around: Harvath must help the White House locate a long-lost document from the early days of Islam that will supposedly overturn the very theological foundations of modern Jihadism. The text makes many references to Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Wars from the early 1800s ("to the shores of Tripoli"). It's a potent mix of history, religion, detective work and high-tech mayhem involving the usual characters from Washington, Colorado and beyond.
I'm only giving this one four stars because it lacks some of the clever humor and repartee of Thor's other thrillers. (Example from his previous novel: "Our sensors indicate you are wearing a silk thong with the words 'Go Navy' inscribed with purple sequins.")
Also, this latest novel lacks some of Thor's usual oddball characters such as "The Troll," a 4-foot-tall genius midget from The First Commandment. Furthermore, I think Brad Thor may be overreaching his narrative skills a bit with the heavy intellectual content in this latest novel. He's right that Islam is desperately in need of a Reformation from within, but I'm not sure he'll convince many moderate Muslims with this cloak and dagger approach, particularly when it means blasting your way through a mosque.
On the theology side, I wish the book was about twice as long, including a much more thorough explanation of Mohammed's lifetime and his approach to "revelation." I also wish the newer characters, such as the UVa historian Nichols, were fleshed out a bit more. Leaving that aside, most fans of the genre will be delighted by The Last Patriot. It's a perfect beach book for summer 2008. Thor is a good writer and I hope his next novel weighs in at about 600 pages.
WARNING: This is not a politically correct treatment of Islam, the Koran or this legacy of the Prophet Mohammed. Those with delicate sensitivities on this topic should probably stay away. - 2008-08-04, 5 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- The Last Patriot
- I had never read anything written by Brad Thor previously. I'm an avid viewer of the Glenn Beck show and saw Brad on there with his new book, The Last Patriot. It sounded intriguing so I purchased it the very next day. I was not disappointed. Thriller is not the word for it! I could not put the book down. This is a roller-coaster ride that has thrills, chills and romance all rolled up in one. Chalk me up as a new Brad Thor fan who's waiting for his next book and who's going to read his prior work while waiting for that new book!
- 2008-08-04, 3 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
