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The Last Patriot
Author: Brad Thor
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 9781416543848
Year Published: 2008

Bestselling author Brad Thor's thriller in which Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath must race against time to find an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam from pursuing its confrontational jihad wars. This is because he has uncovered by accident, a long hidden secret about a revelation by Prophet Mohammed that would shake up the Islamic world when he helped save an Islamic scholar, Anthony Nichols, from a car bomb during his holiday in Paris with his girlfriend, Tracy Hastings.

This is the intense introduction to The Last Patriot, the seventh Scot Harvath novel.

And unsuspectingly, Harvath and Hastings soon find themselves in the thick of a plot that is both risky as well as politically challenging.

Why is keeping this secret hidden so important that the militant Islamists have resorted to killing all those who have knowledge of it? Harvath soon finds out through his contacts and with the help of the US President Jack Rutledge the following frightening truth.

In June 632 AD, deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat in Mecca, the Prophet Mohammed shared with his closest companions a final and startling revelation. Within days, he was assassinated.

Then in September 1789, US Minister to France, Thomas Jefferson, who was charged with forging a truce with the violent Muslim pirates of the Barbary Coast, made a shocking discovery - one that could forever impact the world's relationship with Islam. Unfortunately, his discovery remained hidden to this day.

Back to the present day, when a car bomb explodes outside a Parisian cafe, Harvath is thrust back into the life he has tried so desperately to leave behind. Saving the intended victim of the attack, Nichols, Harvath becomes party to a perilous race to uncover a secret that militant Islam could be defeated once and for all. But as desperate as the American government is to have the information brought to light, there are powerful forces that want to keep Mohammed's mysterious final revelation hidden forever. And they would go to the extremes to achieve that.

Nichols is an expert on Thomas Jefferson history and President Rutledge who found a White House diary Jefferson kept during his presidency, decides to engage Nichols’ help to uncover the secret of Mohammed's revelation.

In The Last Patriot, fans will be engrossed as Harvath once again takes them on a whirlwind tour through international cities and nail-biting suspense where the stakes are high.

Facing a recalcitrant target who stands between him and the French authorities, Harvath employs tough tactics to persuade his captive to confess. With not just a license to kill, but a license to wound, disrupt, maim and torture, Harvath single-handedly attempts to get to the truth of the matter. He is more than a match for anyone who would seek to overthrow the US by means of force or violence.

Fans of the high-adrenaline escapist fare will find Thor's cinematic page-turner a must-read.