Free Full Audiobook Blowback | Scot Harvath Book 4 By Brad Thor
Blowback is the fourth book in The Scot Harvath series by renowned author Brad Thor. Blowback is the fourth book in The Scot Harvath series by renowned author Brad Thor. A mysterious weapon that balances against American and allied forces across the Middle East.
The President calls for help from someone the administration just fired, Scot Harvath, a secret Homeland security special agent. As the terrorist forces grew stronger, the government brought Harvath back. We invite you to watch the next development of this fascinating book.
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Review 1: Blowback audiobook by Tomasthanes
This book was an interesting intersection of Hannibal’s ancient warfare, modern paleopathology, and biological warfare. The author did a great job of weaving the various threads together to come up with a compelling story.
There were times when my suspension of disbelieve was shaken a few times as the protagonist kept changing countries as if the borders were extremely porous. Yes, there was some justification of the fluidity (“The Italian border guards have their hands full trying to search as many cars and motor scooters as possible coming back into Italy.” with Ticino marijuana). The main character lives a charmed life (under fire) where he can travel as freely (and carefully) as he wants to with funds seemingly never running out.
Another thing that was distracting was the full and complete names of guns and planes. Around page 493, he introduced the “Aerotechnik Super Vivat Icarus” motorglider and then used that name 2 more times in the next 2 pages. That was jarring; like trying to land on that rocky, pitted meadow at Aiglemont.
However, all in all, a good story and I’m looking forward to the next book in the series.
This story reminded me a bit of some of the biowarfare plots from Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger series.
Review 2: Blowback audiobook by Dan Berger
This reads like a Clive Cussler novel. There’s a terrorist plot and an ancient mystery tying to it. Our heroes must make dramatic discoveries while working against the clock, and race around the world to piece answers together before it’s too late. There’s even an exotic vehicle moment, a Cussler hallmark.
Sadly, though, it dragged. It took me a couple of weeks to get through it – not a very thrilling thriller. Thor says in an afterword he’s been fascinated since childhood by Hannibal. It’s bad when a writer falls in love with his material, because he loses focus and the ability to cut. As they say in television, you have to kill your babies. This story dragged because it was half again as long as the typical pageturner.
I’ve never found Scot Harvath that memorable a hero. His wisecracking isn’t that funny . Nor do I feel his parts – true-blue but a loose cannon, etc. – really fit together.
Thor tries to develop Harvath personally here. He reflects on having no personal life, as a workaholic in a dangerous job, and on a recent breakup. An older op advises him to have a strong marriage. But there’s no romance in the story. Thor could have cut this angle to tighten it up. Every story element needs to pull its weight to justify its presence.
Despite Harvath being thrown into adventure with a young English scientist, not only does nothing happen between them, it never threatens to. I don’t need my hero to get the girl in every story. But Thor, giving Harvath a smart scientist babe sidekick, could at least have let the subject emerge between them. They could have a steamy passionate affair that turns into something, for a while. They could have a one-night stand blowing off steam while realizing a relationship won’t work. You can have some heat rising between them but never acted upon, and they walk away from each other at the end in the rain.
Whatever, but there needs to be something. I’d take Chekhov’s law – if you introduce a gun in the first act, you must use it in the third act – and adapt it for thriller romances: if the hero rescues and then works with the damsel, the heat must be accounted for.
The terrorist plot is very complicated. I lost track of all the doublecrossing, of cross currents between Sunni and Shia and Turks, and of our heroes’ reasoning as they confront a bioweapon with ancient roots.
And it’s too bad, because the background material is quite interesting: that the ancients used bioweapons far beyond poison arrows, and what the evidence for that is. Weirdly, it’s never made clear how Hannibal’s mysterious loss of a detachment affected, in the end, his attack on Rome.
I do like the entire series and will keep reading it. But I don’t feel the urge to binge read the whole thing, either.
Review 3: Blowback audiobook by Benjamin Thomas
The plot for this book was pretty extensive and mind-boggling. Thor delivers again in an epic thriller that takes Scot Harvath across the globe and “back in time” to learn of a biological threat to harm Americans. Brad Thor writes some of the most complex plots I’ve seen of any writer thus far. Two thoughts. Scot Harvath didn’t show up that much until chapter 12. Second, overall it was a great book but lacked sufficient emotional impact to warrant a 5 stars. Having said that, I’m an avid fan of Brad Thor and Scot Harvath.
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