Reason of the choice
The first thing I read by Brad Thor was the Portuguese translation of Foreign Influence and I really liked it because it was full of action, suspense, violence and I liked it so much that I was eager to know how the story would end. Therefore, the author was the main reason why I have picked this book.
Reaction to the first pages
The first pages were very messy and I was confused but, as the book kept going, I started to connect the dots and, from that moment onwards, all I wanted was to read more and more.
Summary
The book started with the suicide of Caroline Romero, which was very odd, followed by an attempt of murder to Scot Harvath, a former SEAL and the main character, and to Reed Carlton, Harvath’s boss, but both men survived.
Harvath killed the men that tried to murder him and ran away from Paris to Spain, where he met a priest, Peio, who was a friend Harvath had met in the past. In the meantime, Carlton was able to run away from his house which was set on fire and he went for his old mentor to ask for help. Moreover, Nicholas, a dwarf, specialist with computers and Harvath’s friend, was asked for help by the sister of Caroline and she gave him a pen, which was sent to her by her sister before she had died.
In Spain, Harvath was attacked again but he managed to kill the new team which was sent after him and, after establishing contact with Nicholas, he went to Texas to meet the dwarf. In Texas, Nicholas told Harvath that the people who tried to kill Caroline and who were trying to kill them all were ATS, an American company specialized in surveillance technologies. They were attacked once more while they were in Texas but, again, Harvath killed them.
After the new attempt of murder, they left the house in which they were and they went after colonel Bremmer, who was signing the killing orders. They were able to get him and they “tortured” him to give them more information about the people who were after them and he did so. While that was happening, Carlton and his mentor ambushed the head of the personal security team of the CEO of ATS and, after torturing him, he told the two men where his boss would be and how his security team would be disposed.
After getting the information they needed, Harvath and the remaining people who were with him went after Schroeder, the man who had investigated all the people who were now dead, and they were able to track him down very easily and to get information from him. He didn’t give much useful information to get his boss but he told them what they were up to and why they have killed so much people.
In the end, Harvath and his boss captured the CEO of ATS and killed the remaining border of directors of ATS.
Highlights
As it happened in Foreign Influence, this book was full of action and suspense since its beginning and it is something that I really like but the thing that I really liked the most was how Brad Thor exposed such an actual delicate theme: he presented a story with the main goal to show us how the Internet and everything else connected to it could be used to surveil us and to kill us if necessary in the name of security.
It’s true that all of us won’t be targets to be killed but we must make sure that the Internet and the people who are able to use it in their favor don’t use it to wash our minds in the name of security. Yes, we must pay attention to all the dangers that are around us but we can’t trade all of our freedom in exchange for security.
Recommendation
This was an amazing thriller and I definitely recommend this book to everyone who doesn’t know Brad Thor, to everyone who like a thriller full of action and suspense and to everyone concerned with the theme of “Security vs Freedom”.
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