If you're looking for some summer beach reading, might I suggest the work of Brad Thor? The #1 New York Times-bestselling author has a new title dropping in two short weeks: Foreign Agent. The latest in Thor's Scott Harvath series, Foreign Agent's plot sounds pretty intriguing!
But deep within the Russian Caucasus, Moscow also has its own special kind of operative. As a child, Sacha Baseyev endured an unimaginable horror. Today, he lives and breathes for only one reason—to kill. And he will kill as many Americans as it takes to accomplish his mission.
When a clandestine American operations team is ambushed near Syria, all signs point toward a dangerous informant in Brussels. But as Harvath searches for the man, he uncovers another actor—a rogue player hell-bent on forcing America’s hand and drawing it into a confrontation deadlier than anyone could have imagined.
Ooh! Exciting. If you just can't wait, there are lots of other Brad Thor titles to choose from. The Lions of Lucerne is the first book in the Harvath series, positing an attack by Fatah (or, someone more sinister?) that leaves multiple secret service agents dead and the president held hostage. Or you could check out The Athena Project, about an all-female Delta team. So many books, such little beach time.
I assure you, I'm not recommending Thor's work solely because some easily triggered ninnies got upset after Thor said that Donald Trump reminds him of a South American authoritarian and suggested a hypothetical in which Trump would have to be removed from office for being a menace to the American constitutional order. Sure, I think it's silly that some conservatives are trying to get a conservative author dropped by his publishers; I'm old enough to remember when the right got upset about political correctness costing conservative artists their livelihood.* But we live in strange times, and we all know how thin-skinned the Trumpistas are.
Anyway, Thor's political opinions are neither here nor there. I'm not really one for buycotts or boycotts. You should read him because he's good. If his continued success happens to annoy the easily outraged, well, that's just a bonus.
*I'm sure Andrew Breitbart, a prominent member of the secretive conservative Hollywood group Friends of Abe, would be thrilled to see writers at his namesake site trying to get a conservative creator blacklisted for his political beliefs.