By Brad Thor
A grasp murderer. A vendetta years within the making. And a counterterrorism operative who will danger ever/iything -- even treason -- to maintain the folks he loves alive.
Brad Thor, the New York Times[] bestselling writer of [i]Takedown, offers an explosive foreign mystery that includes military SEAL grew to become place of birth defense operative Scot Harvath, who someplace, someway, has left the incorrect individual alive.
"Thou shalt no longer negotiate with terrorists..."
Six months in the past: within the lifeless of the evening, 5 of the main risky detainees within the battle on terror are pulled from their isolation cells in Guantanamo Bay, held at gunpoint, and advised to strip off their orange jumpsuits. Issued civilian outfits and pushed to the bottom airfield, they're loaded aboard a Boeing 727 and set free.
Present day: Covert counterterrorism agent Scot Harvath awakens to find that his international has replaced violently -- and perpetually. A sadistic murderer with a private vendetta is wreaking havoc of biblical proportions. Unleashing nightmarish horrors on these closest to Harvath, the attacker thrusts every thing Harvath holds pricey -- together with his existence -- into absolute peril.
Ordered via the president to stick out of the research, Harvath is compelled to mount his personal operation to discover the conspiracy and to distinct revenge. while he discovers a connection among the assaults and a gaggle of prisoners secretly published from Guantanamo, Harvath needs to ask himself formerly unthinkable questions about the firms and the state he has spent his lifestyles serving.
A renegade from his personal govt, Harvath will position his existence at the line as his look for the reality attracts him right into a showdown with probably the most harmful males at the face of the earth.
Brad Thor roars via this nonstop event jam-packed with foreign intrigue, twisted betrayals, and supreme revenge.
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For accounts of these watershed investigations, see Johnson (1985, 2004); Schwarz and Huq (2007); and Smist (1994). 4 Owing to space limitations, I have been able to cite only a few works by just some of the leading scholars mentioned in this essay. These citations serve as a useful starting place for new scholars entering the field and seeking an orientation, but the reader is encouraged to explore the more complete bibliographies in Gibbs (2005), Johnson (2005, 2012) and Wirtz (2007), and to conduct an internet search on particular authors referred to in this chapter.
Most intelligence scholars have been interested in the strategic level of study: the role of intelligence in national decision councils where sweeping global objectives are at play. Yet much intelligence funding by governments is dedicated to SMO: support to military operations in the field – meeting the information needs of uniformed war-fighters at the tactical level. Journalists have become more adept at ‘embedding’ themselves into combat units for reporting on foreign conflicts; scholars have yet to adopt this methodology, which would provide first-hand observations of intelligence-at-work at the tactical level.
These three panels produced a vast quantity of public reporting. The documents (hearings and reports) released by the Church Committee alone stood some six feet high. The Rockefeller Commission released only a single report, but it was a thorough and biting criticism of domestic intelligence abuses traced to the CIA and several of its companion agencies. Members of the Pike panel voted to keep their highly classified report bottled up in committee, but it leaked to the Village Voice (a newspaper in New York City) and revealed to the public strong criticism of the Agency’s intelligence failures.