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The Athena Project (The Scot Harvath Series) Hardcover – November 23, 2010
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“Thor nails it. A thriller both men and women will love.” –James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Doomsday Key

“Think 007 in stilettos and you’ve got the women of The Athena Project. The thriller genre just got shaken and stirred.” – Sandra Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tough Customer

Book Description

Tucked away in a remote corner of North Carolina’s Fort Bragg, behind rows of razor wire and heavily armed guards, lies the headquarters of the nation’s most elite counter-terrorism unit – the United States Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta. Here, a brilliant new approach to combating terrorism has just been born. Its codename: The Athena Project.

The novels will follow an elite team of female warriors from their recruitment as top-level athletes, through their training, to their deployment on some of the most exciting and dangerous international assignments the fiction world has ever seen.

Brad Thor’s readers will be electrified as he employs his vast knowledge of covert operations and military intrigue to bring to life his most heart-pounding, globe-trotting thrillers yet.

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Series: The Scot Harvath Series (Book 10)Hardcover: 336 pagesPublisher: Atria Books; First Edition edition (November 23, 2010)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1439192952ISBN-13: 978-1439192955 Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds Best Sellers Rank: #108,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #395 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Spies & Politics > Terrorism #412 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Spies & Politics > Assassinations #602 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Political

Terrible! One of the very worst books that I’ve read, and I’m a Thor fan. What ever possessed Brad Thor to write a story about a beautiful, sexy spec ops team of women? AND, chIDg after a WW II Nazi invented transporter device capable to sending EMP bombs anywhere in the world, undetected. This is like some sick, twisted collaboration between Clive Cussler, Matthew Reilly and Barbara Cartland. Our hero, Scott Harvath, makes an appearance but as nothing more than a nobody gopher with his balls cut off as he caters to the whims of the sex-kittens. No reason to include Harvath in this other than as an attempt to tie Thor’s other stories into this. From the awful story and ridiculous characters I would expect Thor to want to distance himself (and Harvath, his cash cow) as far as possible from this garbage. The "girls" in this story have been carefully selected for their athleticism, determination, work ethic along with their large breasts and long legs (and I’m not kidding). We are led to believe that they are as tough as any Delta, SEAL, Recon or Spetsnaz soldiers and they prove it by kicking ass on every special forces guy that comes along without breaking a nail and giving the constant Cussler-like witty dialog as bullets fly past their heads. Apparently all of the trained soldiers shooting at them cannot maintain their excellent marksmanship in the face of such beauty and large, Kevlar enhanced, breasts. Oh sorry, no body armor here. It would only clash with their uniform of choice; slinky evening gowns wherein they somehow manage to conceal their 9mm Glocks. I particularly loved the scenes with the constant sexual banter over who’s sleeping with whom and how they are the "…smartest, best looking, hardest working warriors (they) know". Sadly this is clearly a work up to a sequel and perhaps (God forbid) a series. Oh, Thor, what have you done?

This is my first and last Brad Thor novel. While reading The Athena Project, I felt like I was reading a book written by my teenager. The only thing that kept me from tossing it was the humor in discovering how much worse it could get. It did not disappoint.

The characters are pathetic. The dialogue in this novel is amatuerish and unrealistic. It reads like a guy trying to make "girl talk". The heroins will be in a gun battle and discussing their dates later that night.

The story is unrealistic and implausible. The action quickly jumps from one scene to another with very little description. It leaves the reader puzzled as to how such an immense obstable is overcome in one paragpraph. My favorite is when the heroins and their pistols are ambushed by 8 Czech special forces soldiers with machine guns. No problem. They dismiss the soldiers and take a prisoner in a page and a half. Wow! Did I mention that they didn’t get a scratch.

Hopefully, he will put a little more effort into the next one.

Half way and I just had to quit. Couple days later I tried again and regret it. What a trite piece of junk this clunker is. The story is just barely cobbled together without much thinking. The Delta stars are 4 beautiful and sexy females and this author can’t write women very well. Their dialogue is just like mens locker room banter dialogue. Women don’t joke around like men. Women are women–not men. Then the secert Nazi WonderWeapons are just a hoot and nearly comical. Geezzz, make it just a little plausible? A little touch of realism. Too much fantasy here for me.

The first real letdown is right in the beginning where the 4 starlets are going to kidnap a dangerous weapons dealer at a party at his home which is covered thick with security. An international weapons dealer is going to have plenty of security and multi-layered, but for some reason the 2 girls are able to swim into the nearby boathouse undetected. All they have to do is bend the bars to fit through. No money in the security budget for a couple cams? C’mon. That is just lazy thinking and writing. Of course the arms dealer is going to have cameras and motion sensing and maybe even thermal detectors in the boathouse next to his house. And of course he doesn’t and the 2 girls just swim right in and breeze into the house and get the guy despite all the security in the house. In reality these 4 girls would not last very long going up against experienced operators.

I have read better thrillers by Brad that were much better–this one just doesn’t have it.

Forget this book and watch old re-runs of Charlie’s Angels.

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