Product Description

After rescuing the president from kidnappers, Navy SEAL turned Secret Service agent Scot Harvath shifts his attention to rooting out, capturing, or killing all those responsible for the plot. As he prepares to close out his list, a bloody and twisted trail of clues points toward one man - the world's most feared, most ruthless terrorist, Hashim Nidal. Having assembled an international league of Islamic terrorist networks in an ingenious plot to topple both Israel and America, Harvath and his CIA-led team must reach Nidal before it's too late. One problem remains - they have no idea what the man looks like. Only one person can positively identify Harvath's quarry - Meg Cassidy, a beautiful hijacking survivor. Together, Scot and Meg must untangle a maddening web of global intrigue stretching across four continents. Written with an uncanny knowledge of the spy's craft and the world's distant places, PATH OF THE ASSASSIN proves why Brad Thor is the author everyone's talking about.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27675 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 496 pages

Review
Nelson DeMille Harvath is the perfect all-American hero for the post-September 11th world.

About the Author
Brad Thor studied Creative Writing at the University of Southern California under renowned author T.C. Boyle. He created and hosts an MTV-style travel series called 'Travelling Lite'. It debuted in 1997, and 23 episodes and two seasons later, the show now appears worldwide, including UK, France, Spain, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Brazil and the US. His Emmy Award-winning company, Thor Entertainment, has recently won a Platinum "Best of Show" Aurora Award and a Communicator Broadcast Award of Distinction and his programs are also part of Quantas Airlines' in-flight entertainment.

Customer Reviews

Fun, but don`t expect Ludlum or Clancy
It still amazes me at times to find the literary critiques of "fictionalized fiction" from some reviewers. While everyone is entitled to their opinion, when a reader picks up a novel, plastered with fiction on the jacket and within the description on the inside jacket, why one would attempt to apply heavy doses of reality is beyond me. Fiction, short of posh fiction (read: Oprah Book Club) and literary fiction (e.g. Catcher in the Rye {a classic read to be sure}), is nothing more than an escape to an unreal world, one filled with over-the-top heroes and dastardly villians. So, when I read the reviews of Brad Thor's PATH OF THE ASSASSIN, I must chuckle at some of the reviews indicating that "Scot Harvath is not real." You think? If you want real, read McCullough, Philbrick, Goodwin, Beschloss, or any quality biographer/non-fiction author. If non-fiction is too heady or boring, then you're left with...yep, fiction.

OK, now that I'm through my cyncial snickering, yes, PATH OF THE ASSASSIN is definitely over-the-top relative to the skills, bravery, and simple aura of our hero Scot Harvath. But hey, so is James Bond. That said, Thor has written an entertaining and exciting novel in ASSASSIN, one definitely worth reading if fiction is your bag.

Scot Harvath, our near-perfect secret agent, teams with a beautiful ad exec to track down a new terrorist group (or anti-terrorist group) called the Hand of God. This group seeks maximum destruction on the Arab/Muslim population, which sends the Middle East into a frenzy of retribution, speculation, and concern over the start of WWIII (timing is fairly ironic). Harvath is brash, ubersuave, and easily "the guy you want on your team," while Meg Cassidy, our ad exec, is beautiful, brave, and vulnerable. Quite a duo, eh?

As Harvath and Cassidy travel the globe in search of this new cell, they run across the traditional terrorist groups, and the assassins they employ. The theme to this novel is pure adrenalin and action. While, without any doubt, this novel lacks the meat to be considered with Ludlum, Clancy, et al, it is a fun, easy, and action-packed read, well worth a weekend afternoon.

Tom- North Shields
Another fast paced action novel by this author- not as good as "Takedown"
but very enjoyable

Stay away - Dreadful
Please don't waste your time with this, unless you like reading kids books. The structure,writing and overall story is complete utter crap. The author should stick to his travel programmes on the travel channel and save some trees by not writing!!!!!!!