Brad Thor’s latest thriller Foreign Agent is the fifteenth in his Scot Harvath series, and finds former Navy SEAL Harvath fighting both ISIS and evil Russians bent on luring the U.S. into another war in the Middle East. As an espionage snob, I was fully prepared to write a nasty review, lamenting the formulaic plotline and unrealistic action. While the book is indeed both formulaic and unrealistic, it was nonetheless an enjoyable read.
Foreign Agent opens with an ISIS attack on a covert CIA safe house in Iraq. Subsequent ISIS terrorist attacks against the Secretary of Defense and White House make clear that ISIS has a secret weapon, who is helping them hit the U.S. where it hurts.
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