Highly impressed with Brad Thor's debut novel, & it's precisely what I had been looking for. If that isn't engrossing, I don't know what is. It's not just I "didn't like it"-I hated this book and found it painful to read far into it. This is the kind of book I wish I could give negative stars to. The characters are onion-skin thin and the plot ridden with unbelievable coincidences. We're talking head-hopping, intrusive dialogue tagging, jarring frequent F-bombs, designer label name-dropping and awkwardly constructed sentences that don't flow-added to that is a Barbie Doll "gorgeous" love interest and indestructible Marty Stu ex-SEAL Olympic-class skier protagonist Scot Harvath. It doesn't help that this book is abysmally written in a style I find headache inducing. Not impossible to believe the above mind you-just hard. What I do find hard to believe is a US Senator who to cover up a homosexual affair orders a hit on his lover. What I do find hard to believe is that to defeat a bill in Congress they'd conspire to assassinate Secret Service agents and kidnap the American president and frame the surviving agent for murder.
I find it very easy to believe in politicians who are hiding sexual proclivities that would appall their constituents.
I find it easy to believe US Senators could be corrupt and in league with a filthy rich industrialist prepared to suborn them. But hey, as it turned out, it wasn't that it was outre right-wing that turned me off, but that when it comes down to it I'm the kind of gal who believes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone to assassinate President John F. I probably should have been warned it wasn't for me when I saw blurbs praising it by Vince Flynn of Term Limits and Glenn Beck. I read it because it was recommended in the Suspense part of The Ultimate Reading List. Uhm.not sure where to start to convey all the ways this struck me as ludicrous.
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