The First Commandment: A Thriller
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Brad Thor, the New York Times bestselling leader of Takedown, delivers an explosive international thriller featuring Navy SEAL turned Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath, who somewhere, somehow, has left the incorrect person alive.
“Thou shalt not negotiate with terrorists…”
Six months ago: In the dead of the night, five of the most treacherous detainees in the war on terror are pulled from their isolation cells in Guantanamo Bay, held at gunpoint, and told to strip off their orange jumpsuits. Issued civilian clothes and driven to the base airstrip, they are loaded aboard a Boeing 727 and set free.
Present day: Covert counterterrorism agent Scot Harvath awakens to learn that his world has changed violently — and forever. A sadistic assassin with a personal vendetta is wreaking havoc of biblical proportions. Unleashing nightmarish horrors on persons closest to Harvath, the attacker thrusts everything Harvath holds dear — including his life — into absolute peril.
Ordered by the president to stay out of the investigation, Harvath is forced to mount his own operation to uncover the conspiracy and to exact revenge. When he discovers a tie between the attacks and a group of prisoners secretly unrestricted from Guantanamo, Harvath must question himself previously unthinkable questions about the organizations and the nation he has spent his life serving.
A renegade from his own government, Harvath will place his life on the line as his search for the truth draws him into a showdown with one of the most treacherous men on the face of the planet.
Brad Thor roars through this nonstop adventure full of international intrigue, twisted betrayals, and essential revenge.
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I honestly wasn’t impressed with this Brad Thor novel.
I guess I am comparing his writing to Daniel Silva, since I have read nearly all his books.
I have read all of Brad Thor’s novels and I have to say that Daniel Silva is a better writer.
I am not too pleased spending $20 on this book
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This is an extremely depressing book. It’s basically about a ruthless counterterrorism operative (the “excellent” guy), whom the leader makes a feeble attempt to give a conscience to, torturing and killing ruthless terrorists torturing and killing innocent civilians. The torture and killing scenes are described too detailed and vividly. One scene is particularly disturbing. The first 300 of 400 pages (as far as I’ve read) is repulsively macabre. I don’t consider myself as having a weak stomach, but regularly times I establish myself not wanting to read all the gruesome details of a scene. There is no joy in the book or compelling reason to end it, so I won’t.
I’m also not fond of one page to one and a half page chapters. This book has 124 chapters and 400 pages. That’s an average of a small over 3 pages per chapter. Regularly times a chapter will break in the middle of a conversion or scene, which in my opinion (I’m not an leader!) should just be a new paragraph.
I like to read fiction where there is quick action, danger, risk, success (James Bond 007, Indiana Jones) and all the emotions that follow (happiness, sadness, despair, surprise, etc.) for it’s entertainment value. This book has none of persons features. It’s just depressing and scary.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I despise to be the first person to write a less-than-glowing (i.e., realistic) review of this book, but I feel I must point out several significant problems.
First, the plot. The title is based on the thought that America’s “first commandment” in the “war on terror” is “Thou shalt not negotiate with terrorists.” So far so excellent. Next, Thor postulates that there is one situation in which our government will violate this commandment: when terrorists target children. Here we run into problems. The first problem is that I could reveal this lacking it being a spoiler, since this thread peters out middle through the book and ends up having absolutely nothing to do with the plot’s resolution, which is weak anyway. One assumes that the title of the book indicates a theme which will integrate and run through the plot–at least, in excellent fiction.
Next, this indicates some serious ideological shortcomings. Presumably, the reason for such a “commandment” is that negotiating with terrorists only serves to embolden them. If that’s the case, then for precisely that reason, the worse the threat, the more crucial that we follow the commandment. If terrorists learn that we’ll break our rule only if they target our kids, soon we’ll have every terrorist in the world targeting American children. Duh.
Next, while not an explicitly religious novel, several points seem to gratuitously pander to the worst aspects of conservative politics. The excellent guys contend that we ought to seal off our limits and erect a wall between Mexico and us, while anyone with the most basic knowledge of American history and military history more generally should know that (more-or-less) open immigration along with additional freedoms is what made this country fantastic (as we are all only here thanks to foreign immigrants), and that sealing off its limits and trying to fight a defensive war is a nation’s death-sentence.
*SPOILER ALERT*
Throw in a dig at the Terri Schiavo case in which the uncomplaining miraculously recovers at the end after the heartless parents pull the plug lacking even waiting a couple of days for the significant additional to arrive, and one starts to reflect that Thor is merely a puppet of the Christian fundamentalist movement. The weird ending in which the terrorist mastermind turns out to be a Machiavellian Israeli trying to frame Palestinians for his crimes in order to stir up pro-Israel/anti-Palestine sentiment seems to throw this off a bit, but I suppose there might be a tension for such people between being pro-Israel and anti-Semitic.
I was hoping for something more along the lines of TV’s 24, but with a more consistent plot (so much for that), but the completely amoral my-country-right-or-incorrect, might-makes-right Scot Harvath makes Jack Bauer look like a saint by comparison. Some of Harvath’s gratuitous and hideous acts of torture, which are regularly carried out only for personal revenge and not even for the objective protection of America, are reasonably disturbing.
The search for fantastic post-9/11 rationally pro-American literature continues…
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This writer rumor has it that enjoys describing, in careful, plain detail, scenarios in which helpless women are tortured. After the second such torture session started, and in spite of the actor’s brilliant reading, and the promised adventure, I had no desire to continue. It was neither informative nor entertaining. People who take pleasure in this kind of writing… Anyone want a free audio cd book?????
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Thor just gets better and better. “The First Commandment” is even better than “Takedown,” and the plotting is forceful, tense and quick. The premise is a small farfetched, but most international thrillers nowadays tend to push the edges of credibility to make an outstanding bit of entertainment. It’s excellent to see that charcaters from earlier novels make the occasional appearances, and it helps preserve a serial novel appeal.
It is a bit hard to fathom – at first – why the president of the United States would not want a terrorist establish. (Could this be like bin Laden and Bush? Naa, would never work.)The explanation is wobbly, but in the end for drama and thrills it passes the test.
This Thor is a must read, and if you never read one before, this is the best place you could start. Delight in!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5