coolreads # Retro Books # Foreign Influence

Foreign Influence

Author: Brad Thor

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

ISBN: 9781444712353

Year Published: 2010

In Foreign Influence, Brad Thor once again takes the readers on a political thriller ride. His hero, Scot Harvath, now 40 and a veteran of the SEALs, the Secret Service and a black ops government agency called The Apex Project, is now working for The Carlton Group. While decompressing from his last mission, he’s tapped by Reed Carlton to investigate the bombing of a busload of American college students in Spain.

coolreads # Retro Books # The Demon Crown

The Demon Crown

Author: James Rollins

Publisher: William Morrow

ISBN: 9780062381743

Year Published: 2018

The book opens in December 1903, where travelling by night under the cover of darkness, Alexander Graham Bell led a team of scientists to Geno, Italy for a top secret mission. There, they searched for the remains of James Smithson, the founder of the Smithsonian Institute. After weeks of going about obtaining Smithson’s remains the right and legal way, they encountered problems with the Italian government who repeatedly shut down their efforts. Then the group decided to act on their own.

coolreads # Retro Books # Split Second

Split Second

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Pan Books

ISBN: 9780330411721

Year Published: 2003

For Split Second, David Baldacci set out two plot strands for the novel. Two Secret Service Agents whose service are either terminated or suspended when their charges, both presidential candidates - one assassinated and another kidnapped - decided to team up to investigate both cases.

coolreads # Retro Books # The Fallen

The Fallen

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

Publisher: Head of Zeus

ISBN: 9781784973049

Year Published: 2017

A new, pulse-pounding thriller from Eric Van Lustbader, author of the Jason Bourne series and The Testament. The doomsday has been predicted for the last two thousand years. Now, without warning, it is upon us. In a hidden cave in the mountains of Lebanon, a man makes a fateful discovery. He will bring what has been forbidden for thousands of years out of the darkness and into the light - the Testament of Lucifer.

coolreads # Retro Books # The Kremlin Device

The Kremlin Device

Author: Chris Ryan

Publisher: Arrow Books

ISBN: 9780099460077

Year Published: 1998

A novel where one man fights against the Russian Mafia to save both his colleagues who are kidnapped by them and also the country he serves.

coolreads # Retro Books # The Blood Gospel

The Blood Gospel

Authors: James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell

Publisher: William Morrow

ISBN: 9780062247872

Year Published: 2013

As is the norm for most James Rollins thrillers, The Blood Gospel begins in the past, and this time, it goes back to a historic and brutal event, the Masada massacre.

coolreads # Retro Books # Rising Tiger

Rising Tiger

Author: Brad Thor

Publisher: Emily Bestler Books

ISBN: 9781982182151

Brad Thor’s latest blockbuster novel, Rising Tiger, offers an insight on the tension of the Chinese-Indian border conflict.

coolreads # Retro Books # Masters of War

Masters of War

Author: Chris Ryan

Publisher: Coronet

ISBN: 9781444706499

Year published: 2014

The book starts with the brutal killing of an elderly man in Paris by a suicide bomber. Then all members of the killer’s family are murdered. This hard-hitting opener gives way to the introduction of Chris Ryan’s new lead character, SAS trooper Danny Black, who has just completed a gruelling tour of duty in north Africa. As soon as that job is over, Danny is ordered into another, with hardly any respite in between.

coolreads # Retro Books # Code of Conduct

Code of Conduct

Author: Brad Thor

Publisher: Atria Books

Year Published: 2015

Brad Thor’s 14th Scot Harvath novel tackles a new angle readers have yet to see in the rough and tumble world of the former Navy Seal turned covert counterterrorism operative. After an anonymous video makes its way to America, what is depicted is nothing short of devastating. An entire African village destroyed by fire, purposely torched for reasons unknown. Harvath is then dispatched as a favour to the sponsor of the clinic in the village by the President and finds himself in the jungles of Congo as he tries to find out what’s been going on.

coolreads # Retro Books # Spymaster

Spymaster

Author: Brad Thor

Publisher: Pocket Books

ISBN: 9781476789422

Year Published: 2018

With the theme of vengeance as the core motivation in this thriller, Brad Thor has weaved another exciting adventure for Scot Harvath, a former US Navy Seal counter-terrorism operative. He’s the key agent in a private,  alternative CIA group created and headed by Reed Carlton, a legend in US intelligence who came out of retirement to correct serious flaws in US intelligence operations.