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Indlæser... Uso da Força (Portuguese Edition) (udgave 2018)af Brad Thor (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Thriller As usual, non-stop action, with no regard for laws. After stopping most of a terrorist attack on U.S. spoil, Scot is sent to exfiltrate an ISIS operative in Libya, when things go wrong and the bad guys almost win. Meanwhile, ISIS continues to mount escalating attacks in Europe, with rising death tolls. There is also treachery going on in Washington D.C. in the ranks of the CIA, forcing the intervention of Nicholas and the Carleton Group. Scot backtracks the Libyan terrorist to his contacts in Sicily/Italy, where he meets up with an old ally, from the Carabinieri, who seems to want to operate lawfully. I think there were too many plotlines and the ending seemed a bit abrupt. Rating: 2.5* of five Look, I know I'm not a Brad Thor demographic denizen. I'm so far left of the Democrats that hailing frequencies frequently fail to open, while Thor is a darling of Aynholish people with whom I share nothing but the right to trial by a jury of my peers. His politics appall me. His writing, though, isn't bad. He crafts a sentence that leads to another in an agreeable and steady way. Well, gawddam if he shouldn't, since this is his SEVENTEENTH Scot Harvath novel. The appeal of shoot-'em-ups is they draw lines and fill in borders with clear, dark colors. People Thor doesn't like are "the Tajik" or "the street thug." Depersonalizing those one wishes to deprive of complexity and therefore humanity is effective. The reader isn't troubled to learn pesky things like names, only labels applied for the brief moment that construct is allowed to exist before dying at some noble American's skilled and dextrous hands or lushly described armaments. These books are covered by the right to free speech. They do not directly incite the reader to violence against those he is likely to see in his insular life. Instead they validate the less-than-humanity of groups, ethnicities, social outcasts that Thor knows his readers don't want to see as more substantial than paper targets at the shooting range. As such, they contribute to a national crisis of empathy among the lowest segments of society: The political conservatives, the white nationalists, the evangelical apologists for the crimes of the others. I read it. I can't say that, as a plotting and writing example, it was any worse than most and considerably better than many books that fly off booksellers' shelves. But I feel defiled by the contemptuous, arrogant, and entirely unwarranted high opinion these characters and their readers have for themselves and each other. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Belongs to SeriesScot Harvath (16)
As a storm rages across the Mediterranean Sea, a terrifying distress call is made to the Italian Coast Guard. Days later, a body washes ashore. Identified as a high value terrorism suspect (who had disappeared three years prior), his name sends panic through the Central Intelligence Agency. Where was he headed? What was he planning? And could he be connected to the "spectacular attack" they have been fearing all summer? In a race against time, the CIA taps an unorthodox source to get answers: Navy SEAL turned covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath. Hired on a black contract, Harvath will provide the deniability the United States needs while he breaks every rule along the way. No library descriptions found. |
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