The Last Patriot

By: Brad Thor

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

In Brad Thor's highest-voltage thriller to date, Scot Harvath must race to locate an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam dead in its tracks.

June, A.D. 632: Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat in Mecca, the Prophet Mohammed shares with his closest companions a final and startling revelation. Within days, he is assassinated.

September 1789: U.S. minister to France Thomas Jefferson, charged with forging a truce with the violent Muslim pirates of the Barbary Coast, makes a shocking discovery - one that could forever impact the world's relationship with Islam.

Present day: When a car bomb explodes outside a Parisian café, Navy Seal turned covert Homeland Security Operative Scot Harvath is thrust back into the life he has tried so desperately to leave behind.

Saving the intended victim of the attack, Harvath becomes party to an amazing and perilous race to uncover a secret so powerful that militant Islam could be defeated once and for all without firing another shot, dropping another bomb, or launching another covert action. But there are powerful men who are determined that Mohammed's mysterious final revelation continue to remain hidden forever.

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "quite possibly the next coming of Robert Ludlum", Brad Thor takes listeners across the globe on a heart-pounding chase in which the stakes are higher than they have ever been.

©2008 Brad Thor (P)2011 Simon & Schuster

Turned to Da Vinci Code for Me

Great idea, beginning was phenomenal, but as the book continued, it felt more like Dan Brown than Brad Thor

loved it

so good! The whole series is really good! I am a huge Brad Thor fan.

Best of the series so far

I've been reading this series from the beginning and this is my favorite book yet in the series (honestly, the series has begun getting dry up to this point.) This book resets it so far.

Enjoyed the listen

Good story, not PC for sure, but on target for today's non free speech environment

Pretty Damn Good

I like the way the author separates the fact fro the fiction in the post log

Patriot

Outstanding work combining fact and fiction in a thriller. Thank you for a great distraction from a long illness.

Lacking non-stop action

Good Brad Thor novel, but somewhat atypical. Intriguing storyline, with part fact and part fiction concerning both radical Islam and Thomas Jefferson. Action lagged due to much historical fact/fiction and detective sleuthing. Action scenes were good and typical Brad Thor, but too spread out for my personal liking. YMMV.

A Hit (in more ways than one)

Where does The Last Patriot rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This is possibly one of the really good books that I have listened to in the past year.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

Deep plot but not too difficult too keep up with and filled with twists and turns to keep you interested.

Which character – as performed by George Guidall – was your favorite?

George Guidall is so versatile. He is great in every part. I might buy a book just because he was narrator.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

It was but I never sit and listen to any book. I have them in the car and I never lose my place. In fact, I can't wait to get in the car so I can begin listening again.

Any additional comments?

This was my kind of story with my kind of performance by my kind of performer!

Great story line.

Story moved along. nice flow to it. Narrator was good. Changed voices to help follow.

Jefferson and Harvath

Just as a snowball will roll down hill and become larger, so does the story telling of Brad Thor and his fascinating character, Scott Harvath.