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Title: Takedown: A Thriller
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Author: Brad Thor
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Review of Takedown: A Thriller

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• Posted on 2009-09-24
  thinking like the enemy
  
  Thor used to work for Homeland Security, and he definitely brings his deep knowledge of terrorist plans to his new line of work, novel writing.
  
  In Takedown, terrorists stage a massive coordinated attack on New York City during the Fourth of July weekend. Through the strategic placement of bombs they completely isolate Manhattan, then deploy smaller attacks in the crowd-filled streets. All this is cover, though, so they can rescue one of their own who is captured and being interrogated. (The interrogation method in the end, by the way, will make any man squirm.)
  
  The protagonist, Harvath, teams up with an old friend and some new acquaintances just returned from the Middle East to track down the bad guys. Various Manhattan landmarks become a warzone between good and evil. It's thrilling and suspenseful and doesn't let up throughout. Inevitably Harvath develops a love interest in the only female member of this impromptu elite force, but fortunately Thor doesn't lay it on too thick.
  
  What's a little unbelievable is the sudden murder of an NSA bureaucrat by a colleague in the intelligence community to keep a secret. I had trouble swallowing this. Other than that, this thriller is flawless.
  
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• Posted on 2009-07-25
  Disappointing
  
  This was my first Brad Thor novel and I found it to be disappointing. Normally I love the action thriller type of book written by authors such as Clive Cussler, Vince Flynn, Tom Clancy and others. But this book is extremely disjointed with a lot of content that contributes nothing to the story. There were a few elements of interest like the troll but most of it is dull featuring a fairly incompetent hero Scott Harvath. I doubt I will read another Brad Thor novel because I don't trust that the book will be well written.
  
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• Posted on 2009-07-21
  A real page turner
  
  Takedown: A Thriller
  
  Just wanted to take a couple of sentences and let everyone know how much I enjoyed this book. It would be easy for me to recap the story but others have already done that probably better than I could so I won't bore you with the retelling of the story.
  
  It was hard to put this book down when I got started. Mr. Thor has a tendency to write short chapters thus making it easy to find a place to stop. However, with this book, I would find myself looking through the next chapter and, not wanting to stop reading, would see how many pages were in the next chapter and figure, it only a few pages and I can finish that pretty quickly. I would get through that chapter and do the same with the next. And the cycle continued till I realized it was really time for me to go to bed or do something different.
  
  This book kept me literally turning the page. Well written, well defined characters and believable enough to be true, I was sad when it ended because I wanted more.
  
  Fortunately, there is another book to follow this one so I sadly ended one and went right on the next.
  
  Thanks to Brad Thor, I have again discovered the joy in reading.
  
  I highly recommend this book to anyone that likes action thrillers based in today's world.
  
  
  
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• Posted on 2009-05-26
  Another fantastic thriller from Thor!
  
  Takedown is the fifth book in the Scot Harvath series - and as always it doesn't disappoint!
  
  In this installment, super-secret (black) safe houses are being systematically broken into while a major terrorist attack befalls New York. (Poor New Yorkers; while Islamic terrorists apparently hate all people who are apart of the 'Great Satan', in most thrillers, it seems to be New York who suffers the most...)
  
  Scot collects a motley assortment of recovering American soldiers and leads them in the fight of their lives - - - again, highly recommended! Thor has sincerely "done it again."
  
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• Posted on 2009-04-26
  Script for a Comic Book
  
  Incredible! I can't believe I bought it. It reads like the script for an action comic strip - except that the dialogue has been dumbed down.
  
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