by Brad Thor
Part of Scot Harvath, book 9
First published 2010
Scot Harvath works for a new black ops agency buried deep in Defense Department budgets. The covert unit answers only to military insiders and operates under three words: Find, Fix, and Finish. Harvath returns from his first mission when a bomb kills American college students in Rome. Evidence points to someone from his past, a dangerous operative planning attacks on American soil. His handlers want Harvath to use their history together to draw the man into the open and eliminate him. But Harvath questions whether they have the right target. Meanwhile, a taxi strikes a young woman in Chicago and flees. Police abandon the case with only drunk witnesses and thousands of cabs to check. The victim's family lawyer keeps digging and discovers the hit and run connects to the Rome bombing. The perpetrators plan something far worse for America. As both investigations converge, Harvath races to stop an act of war that could reshape the world.
Genres: military-fiction, adventure, suspense, action, espionage, political-thriller
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: America, Chicago, Defense Department, Rome
Period: 21st-century
373 pages · Hardcover · Atria Books
Content warnings: violence