• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

William F. Brown

Action Adventure Thrillers

  • Home
  • Books
    • Bob Burke Action Adventure
    • Our Vietnam Wars
    • Amongst My Enemies Series
  • Translations
    • Bob Burke auf Deutsch
    • Amongst My Enemies auf Deutsch
    • Bob Burke en Espanol
  • About
    • My Screenplays
    • Contact
  • Blog
  • Free Book

Foreign Influence, a Scott Harvath suspense thriller by Brad Thor

September 28, 2016 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Brad Thor’s Scott Harvath series has become a must-read for action-adventure, suspense thriller fans looking for a good airplane or swimming pool book.  His 16th Scott Harvath book has just come out, and Foreign Influence is book #9 of the series. All of them are thick books, so he is banging them out. I’ve read most of them, and can attest that you don’t need to read them in order. I think one of the reasons this series sells well is that the main character,

Scott Harvath
William F Brown
Thriller Novels

Scott Harvath. He is the secret-secret agent, ex-Navy Seal, master of Black Ops who is working for The Carleton Group, a private company to whom the Defense Department has secretly “outsourced” the “go-kill-the-bad-guys” work they can’t legally do anymore budget. He’s the kind of agent we all hope this country would employ – one who goes out and hunts down the terrorists before they hurt us, and shoots first. Sadly, that’s exactly the kind we know it doesn’t employ, and probably shouldn’t. I think that’s Brad Thor’s view too, and, like Daniel Silva and a few others, he pulls no punches in his scathing commentary regarding US foreign and defense policy in the Middle East and how it lets the terrorist states push us around. Whether you subscribe to that view or not, the books are good reads. In addition to the non-stop action, there is a lot of violence, particularly directed at the bad guys, always on full-automatic. And there is torture, but usually of the “bomb is about to go off” type. He has created some unique minor characters, like “The Dwarf” and his big dogs, among others. Great literature? Hardly. But if you are sick or need a good suspense thriller swimming pool book, they are great. Just don’t over-think them.

William F. Brown is the author of 8 suspense thrillers with over 500 Five-Star Reviews: Burke’s War, Burke’s Gamble, The Undertaker, Amongst My Enemies, Thursday at Noon, Winner Take All, and Aim True, My Brothers, and The Cold War Trilogy. They are all available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and now on Audible Audio Books. You read about them  and the author’s screenplays and other writing at billbrownwritesnovels.wordpress.com

Filed Under: Book reviews Tagged With: Action Adventure Books, action thriller, Book reviews, spy novels, Suspense Fiction, Thriller Novels

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Latest Release

See The Book

Recent Posts

  • New Release: Burke’s Rescue
  • BURKE’S WAR IS NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE IN SPANISH
  • MY BOB BURKE ACTION-THRILLER SERIES IS NOW OUT IN GERMAN
  • Winner Lose All and Thursday at Noon are now available on Apple, Nook, and Kobo,
  • Burke’s Mandarin is now Available in Kindle, Paperback, and Hardback

Archives

  • March 2023
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • July 2021
  • May 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • May 2020
  • March 2020
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • December 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • July 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • December 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • January 2016
  • April 2015
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014

Categories

  • Action Adventure
  • action thriller
  • American Sniper
  • Audio Books
  • biography and memoirs
  • Book Blog
  • Book reviews
  • Box Set
  • Business History
  • CIA spy stories
  • Cold War
  • Cold War Thriller
  • crime fiction
  • Delta Force
  • FBI Murder Mystery
  • Free Audio Books
  • Good fiction writing
  • Good Non-Fiction Books
  • Historical
  • Historical Action Novels
  • How writers write
  • Islamic terrorists
  • Jihadist Terror Plots
  • Kindle Normalized Page Counts
  • Kindle Unlimited Books
  • Kindle Unlimited Thrillers
  • mafia murder mystery
  • Middle East Thrillers
  • military history
  • military thriller
  • Murder Mystery
  • My writing blog
  • Mystery
  • New E-Book
  • Spies
  • Suspense Fiction
  • Suspense Novels
  • Suspense Thriller
  • Thriller
  • Thriller novel
  • Thriller Novels
  • True Vietnam war stories
  • Uncategorized
  • Veteran stories
  • Veterans stories
  • Vietnam vets
  • Vietnam War
  • writing blog
  • WW II action adventure
  • WW II History

Copyright © 2023 · Powered by ModFarm Sites · Log in