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The Last Patriot: A Thriller

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Author: Brad Thor
Publisher: Atria Books
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

124 reviews
Sales Rank: 560

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.3

ISBN: 141654383X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781416543831
ASIN: 141654383X

Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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my review September 30, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

The book was just a so so novel. There was too much "alphabet soup" references to various agencies to suit my taste-- made it too hard to follow trhe plot in places.

5 out of 5 stars

Spellbinding September 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is my first Brad Thor Book. It is by far the best book I have read since Noble House. Thor has the ability to intertwine history with fiction and produces a most riveting read. I especially enjoyed reading Chapter 16 about the Barbary Pirates. I remember my High School history book characterizing State sponsored Islamic Terrorists as being mere pirates. Admittedly, the vast majority of Muslims are peace loving people but the politically correct Washington establishment wants to cast a blind eye to the most significant threat since WWII. If only 1% of Muslims are terrorists then we have 15 Million people committed to the destruction of the United States. That is too many people to ignore. Brad Thor is a breath of fresh air. Now excuse me while I read the rest of his books.

4 out of 5 stars

Kept Me Interested September 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I had never read anything by Brad Thor before, and I picked up the audiobook for "The Last Patriot" to listen on a road trip to Las Vegas. I didn't really know what to expect, except that I didn't want something too deep, and I wanted something both myself and my boyfriend could enjoy. He's very much into political thrillers, me less so unless the story is easy to pick up.

This book fit the bill. I know several reviewers are saying this book compares to "The DaVinci Code," but I didn't see it. "The DaVinci Code" was a supposed mystery (and a not very good one at that), whereas this book is a political thriller - to me, a different genre entirely. It kept me interested, though I was unaware the character of Scot Harvath was a continuation. My boyfriend was okay with it. This was the first time he had listened to an audiobook, and he found himself becoming distracted at times.

For the purpose it was intended, the book delivered. It's not earth-shattering literature, and it's certainly not the Great American Novel, but it's pleasant enough. I suppose there is some un-politically correctness in that Islam is portrayed in a unflattering light. My response to that? It's a novel, it's fiction, get over it.

For light, escapist reading, this book did okay. It makes me interested to know what Brad Thor's other works are like.

1 out of 5 stars

Ineffective - more like Da Vinci Hack September 21, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

The premise was encouraging - Thomas Jefferson was George W Bush on steroids against radical Muslim. He had suspected the "lost chapter" from Koran could change Islam and, during the course of several battles fought by US Navy, discovered the bit. Flash forward, present day president Rutledge spent his own money to fund where Jefferson hid it. What followed were "brain swelling from stress", description of some very cool gadgets / guns top US agencies use, several improbably gun fights and even a somewhat interesting twist to the 2005 riots on the streets of France. The story never really recovered after first ten chapters or so. Things like a fed who is not a secret service agent can go play pool with President in white house with a gun in his waist did not really help. This novel was more of a Da Vinci hack.

4 out of 5 stars

DaVinci In Da Terror Cells September 20, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

The action never stops in this excellent thriller about the threat to modern civilization posed by radical Islam. It's built around a DaVinci-Code-like secret about the prophet Mohamed's last revelation, a secret that threatens to undermine the basic tenets of Islam.

Thor's hero, former Navy SEAL Scot Harvath, gets dragged into the search for the secret, competing with everybody from a murderous convert to Islam to the CIA and FBI to solve the puzzle. Gun play, car bombs, and plenty of skin-of-the-teeth escapes keep the story moving along at a quite satisfactory pace.

Dave Donelson, author of Heart of Diamonds: A Novel of Scandal, Love and Death in the Congo

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