Book Review: The Apostle: A Thriller: Brad Thor: Books
Book Review: The Apostle: A Thriller: Brad Thor: Books
Another bare-knuckled thrill ride from one of the masters.,
By L. Lendelle -
Brad Thor is one of the preeminent writers of thriller today, and his best-selling books are too numerous to count…so instead of talking about his past successes, let’s get straight to his newest novel: The Apostle: A Thriller, shall we? The book, in short, is about an American physician who gets kidnapped while working in Afghanistan. Ah, the scene is set, but this doctor has connections. He, and his family, are politically connected to America’s new President, and turn to him for help, but the ransom being asked is too steep for the President, and he decides to launch a covert operation to get the American physician back instead.
The premise, along with the characters, are rather interesting - they have a passionate view on the current state and try to convince others to come to that point of view. It would seem that The Apostle has mingled in current affairs with a fictional tale. The President in the story is another interesting facsimile of our current Commander in Chief. A quote from the book “the new President had been very aggressive with his first 100 days. Campaigning on a platform of change, and he had done just that when he stepped into the Oval Office, and not necessarily for the better.” The President, in the book, had single handily eviscerated the central intelligence of the country.
Much like all of Brad Thor’s novels, he bases them on current headlines but allows the reader to decide which is which. Is the President in the book based off of our current President? The Apostle informs, implores, and entertains the reader in a way that only a few authors can. He has created another bare-knuckled thrill ride that seems so believable, it could have been taken from the headline news. I really enjoyed this novel (as I’ve enjoyed all Brad Thor’s novels) I guarantee everyone will walk away from this reading experience knowing more about global terrorism, central intelligence, and other aspects of our country that you didn’t know before.
But I personally think the true message of the book (or at least what I took it to be) As Americans there is quite a bit of frustrations with the higher offices of the country. We have got fantastic men and women in the militaries that are putting their lives on the line to protect our citizens, to protect our country, and to protect Lady Liberty, and yet, they are forced to deal with some of the worst management and leadership…and they shouldn’t have to. This book really is a voice for the people who can’t speak of these matters due to the red tape and bureaucracy. The Apostle: A Thriller is an incredible novel that you don’t want to miss…..Another book I would highly recommend that shows the true colors of war is Ashes Divide by Clarence Cage: Ashes Divide it is another great tale that shows the heroics of true warriors in battle.
Bring the pain Scot H.,
By Jason Frost “RubiconReader” (California) -
Stephen King once said that “hell was spending eternity reading Danielle Steel novels”. If that is indeed the case then let me say that “heaven is eternity reading Brad Thor novels”. A little dramatic? Maybe. But if you’ve read anything by Mr. Thor then you understand exactly where I’m coming from. If you haven’t… well I pity your life. (not really).
I love how Thor brings in current headlines and issues that we have a country and weaves them brilliantly into the storyline. I actually laughed when he talked about a “president who promised change”,his administration and their asinine policies that just decimated our intelligence community. Gee, golly, gosh, I wonder who he could be talking about? This President has as a best friend, a woman who is a true ball-buster in every sense of the word. This woman has a daughter working overseas and she is kidnapped by the worshipers of the religion of peace. And because of this President’s “Dr. Phil approach” to dealing with terrorists he’s caught between a rock and a hard place. He can’t just go in there and get her because that would go against everything that he spewed during his campaign. If he doesn’t go in there, his ball-busting pit bull of a best friend will expose him and one HUGE secret that could bring him down.
What is a hypocrite President to do? Enter Scot Harvath. Thus enter blood. Enter pain. Enter controlled mayhem. Enter doing what it takes to get the job done. Tell political correctness to take the rest of the week off! Of course Scot has strong mixed feelings about this, because it was THIS idiot President who stripped him of his job. True, all Scot does is protect American from the animal thugs who use children to carry out their terror while they hide in bunkers. He really doesn’t do anything but put his life on the line to keep our cities free from dirty bombs, chemical weapons, and WMD’S. I mean why keep a guy around who was born to see the unseen and anticipate the impossible? Stupid if you ask me. Unfortunately the moronic President in this story can’t sense my sarcasm and, therefore, doesn’t see the plain common sense in keeping a man who lives for protecting America!
Showing a rare form of common sense and penchant for making the right decesion, the President calls on Scot to serve his country, (more rather his cause), one more time. I will say that this book doesn’t have the usual extremely high adrenaline action that we’ve come to expect from Brad. Oh, there is violence and death but on a smaller scale and I’m spoiled so I want a high body count! In spite of my obsessive need for bodies to fly and blood to burn, fans will absolutely love this one!
Loved his earlier stuff..but his political bias becomes boring after the first 40 pages..,
By M. Hendricks “Colomar” (Charleston) -
I’ve read everything Brad Thor has written and find him to be one of my favorite authors. I purchased this book today, the first day or release and have read about 2/3rds of the novel.
Ill start off by saying I am a huge fan of Thor and have enjoyed everything he has written, until now. The book is fairly routine for Thor and about what I would hope for, good plot, good writing etc. I guess my main bitch with the book Brad Thor is wearing his political bias on his sleeves and appears is trying to win over the Beck/Hannity crowd while sticking his finger in the eye of the rest of his readers, this is not a good idea as Joel Rosenberg can attest too..Rosenberg lost a huge portion of his readers when he swerved dramatically to the right. .
I can understand and appreciate all sides of the current political arguments and while I don’t agree with a majority of what the current administration is doing, I feel Thor has lowered himself to childish name calling and irrational bias when ever he is describing the president (obviously Obama!) or his policies, all the while ignoring the obvious blunders of the previous administration in regards to intelligence gathering and analysis. It becomes so obvious that it takes away from the experience and appears to be preaching, which is annoying. I get it, you don’t like our president, and believe me I can understand, but just as many complained about how Bush was treated, it seems extremely hypocritical to lob equally vicious insinuations and comments at the current President. No matter the man the office deserves respect.
It is unfortunate that brad Thor has chosen to go this route as I find the novel exciting and with a good plot. All I can say is I hope Mr. Thor comes back to the middle of the road and stops alienating a large portion of his Readers.
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It’s actually quite refreshing to see a little Obama bashing after the 8 year Bush Derangement syndrome hatefest from the left. Suck it up guys, you brought it on yourselves.