The Athena Project

A Thriller

By: Brad Thor

Narrated by: Elizabeth Marvel

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

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 listeners 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.

©2010 Brad Thor (P)2010 Simon & Schuster Inc.

Awesome storyline, new characters, & new narrator!

One of Thor's best! Waited until 1 extra credit...mistake! Should have listened 8 years ago!

out of order

When I google the sequence of the books I got it wrong and ended up getting this out of order so I was not introduced to the charters. Overall it wasn't horrible, just not what I expected, Scot Harvath, instead it was some female operators, which is cool and a good shift.

The depth of the characters wasn't great so when the first / last names were used interchangeably it lead me to some confusion about who was who but in the end it didn't matter too much as they were not that noteworthy.

I do chew through a lot of books on my commute so putting a week on this wasn't a bad thing.

Needs two narrators

I like the story but it needs more substance, it also needs a male narrator in addition to the female narrator who did a great job , but it was weird to hear her voice for Scot Harvarth , ….

An action packed side story!

While Scot Harvath made minor appearances in this book, the Athena girls stand strongly on their own! Wonderful read, full of action.

Lacks strong ending

Interesting read. It would make sense to have a follow on book that engaged Harvard more.

At 3.9 stars this novel is seriously underrated!

Brad Thor took a brief time away from his Scot Harvath series to write about the fictional Project Athena which is a top secret effort to take several of America's top level female athletes and train them to become a fighting force in the war on terror. This novel takes the group from recruitment through training and their suspense filled first mission. The Athena Project is an outstanding novel. Several of the women from the Athena Project play significant roles in novels in the Scot Harvath series.This is book 9.5 in the Harvath series.

As a fan of Brad Thor from his first novel forward I object to 2 of his older Harvath series audio novels (Blowback and Takedown) being re-recorded and re-released earlier this year. The old versions released a decade ago were perfectly fine. Lee Child has used the same tactic with several of his Jack Reacher novels. I object!!

Charlie's Angels

this does not sound like Brad Thor wrote this story. The characters were shallow send it too much like the 80 sitcom Charlie's Angels and it would have been better for one character the lead instead of having all of them share

not Scott Harbath

this was a different story than I was hoping for although a lot of the characters are from the Scott harbasth

Better Than I Thought

So, before purchasing this book I read the comments, mainly the low rating one, and they couldn't have been more wrong about this book.

1). One review said all.the female.characters had "sex, sex, sex" on their minds. Well, I only read 2 sex scenes which were pretty tame, and bantering about sex but it definitely wasn't the focus of the dialogue.

2). The narrator was good. She was able to create unique voices for all the characters which added depth to the story

3). Yes, it is possible to have special.operator who are females.

Overall, it was a good read.

Great story.

The only issue I had with this performance was trying to follow the male characters. A bunch of the male characters sounded female. I’d be lying if I Didn’t say some of the male character voices were good though especially some of the villains.