Takedown: A Thriller
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- ISBN13: 9781416505426
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
July 4th weekend, New York City:As thousands of holiday travelers make their way out of Manhattan, a flawlessly executed terrorist attack plunges the city into a maelstrom of panic and death. Amidst the chaos, an elite team of foreign soldiers is systematically searching for one of their own, a man so powerful that the U.S. government refuses to admit he even exists and will do anything to keep him hidden. Now, with the world’s deadliest enemy upon America’s doorstep, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must fight his way through the burning city streets to take down an invisible terrorist mastermind with the means to unleash hell on a global scale.
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The killing of Scot Harvath’s girl friend at the very end does not now make me want to run out and buy the next Brad Thor novel.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
rinse and repeat for 400 pages. This book SUCKS. I’ve read all of the Brad Thor thrillers thus far, because to me, they are like potato chips- no redeeming value at all but I can’t stop. They’ve gotten progressively worse until this one, which pretty much bottoms out. Let me save you some time. Terrorists attack America. Heroic president Bush- I mean, Rutledge- is fed up with the whiny, weak-willed, latte-sipping terrorist-coddling liberals and weenies in government, so Scot Harvath- some perverted fusion of Dick Cheney, Rambo, and Tom Clancy’s John Clark- goes into New York with a ragtag band of vets to kill a lot of terrorists- but don’t worry, there’s depth! In between rounds of gunplay, Scot Harvath has the time to show his tragically soulful side in a limp, stereotypical spectacle of pain and outrage whenever one of the excellent guys dies. Oh yeah, as an afterthought, Thor includes a girl, they fall in like- over the course of maybe 2 paragraphs worth of interaction- they have powerful, end of novel sex, and then she gets shot by a dirty Arab assassin.
God help me, until I read this book, I thought I had cured my liberal elitism. But to appreciate this, you have got to be a buzz-cut wearing knuckle-dragging ape-man who thinks that beating suspected terrorists to death with a baseball bat, or torturing them by inserting pepper spray up their penises- gotta hand it to Thor, he is creative- is A-OK. And you have to have pretty much no appreciation or desire for even the flimsiest pretence at character depth, setting, or dialogue. So I guess you have to be one of the 29% who still approves of the job the president is doing, in fleeting. I have read pile after pile of jingoistic thrillers with no redeeming value because I just can’t help myself- I’m a sucker for gunplay, quick boats, and global intrigue. But this book is so terrible I may just stay away from them from now on. I would rather have Scot Harvath go all guantanamo on me than read this book again.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is my first Brad Thor novel and it will be my last. Reads like a shallow action movie – no character development, lots of uninspired run-of-the-mill action, token like interest, etc.
I reflect one of the review titles here sums the book up nicely “blah blah GUNS blah blah TERROR blah blah COWARDLY LIBERALS blah blah” – not automatically a terrible thing but it doesn’t even do that properly!
I have maybe 7 more 3-page chapters to go and you know what, it’s not worth my time – it’s going straight into the bin.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Incredible! I can’t judge I bought it. It reads like the speech for an action comic strip – except that the dialogue has been dumbed down.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I usually charitably clarify an action-packed, but confusing and illogical plot driven, book as a “excellent beach read”. This Brad Thor novel/thriller didn’t even reach that relatively low bar. Wait for the paperback or else pick it up when a name else throws it away in disgust.
Don’t read this claptrap. I was trapped at the beach for a day with this book, having been fooled by the first 60 pages into thinking there would be some character development and I wouldn’t be exposed to a series of implausible plot lines.
Yes there really is a plot, of sorts. You see, the US has illegally captured two Al-Qaeda terrorist leaders (Mohammed bin Mohammed and Sayed Jamal) and is secretly holding them somewhere in Manhattan. But, the terrorists launch an attack on the city, blowing up all the tunnels and bridges, and firing missiles at helicopters and planes to effectively isolate the island. Meanwhile the Presidents daughter happens to be traveling over one of the bridges and is critically hurt – AND , the superhero Scot Horvath just happens to be in New York City with one of his ex-special forces followers to get in the middle of all this.
You know that hero Scot Horvath is going to get the girl, you know that super terrorist Ali will find Al Qaeda bombmaker M&M, you know there will be a predictable twist at the end and you know there will be the inevitable plotline of US intelligence agencies fighting each additional as a replacement for of the enemy.
The only redeeming feature of the book is that it makes you reflect about how far we, as a nation, are willing to go in bending and breaking rules to fight for survival.
I’m not sure if the fact that our local bookstore had this book on prominent spectacle or the fact that I really spent $20 on it angers me more; or even that this drivel is still in the top 500 at Amazon. Or the fact that the last page clearly sets up a sequel with a weak and horrible ending you wouldn’t even use in a daytime TV soap opera. A month from now this book will be remaindered at $5.99 and next year it will be not even a faint pimple on the US literary landscape.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5