The First Commandment: a thriller by Brad Thor

Entertaining Thriller*** August 21, 2007

This novel begins with Scot Harvath, former navy SEAL, now Homeland Security superagent, s at the bedside of girlfriend Tracy Hastings, who's in a deep coma after being gravely wounded at the end of Thor's previous novel. Unbeknownst to him, five terrorists have been released from Guantánamo Bay as part of a secret hostage deal forced upon U.S. president Jack Rutledge. When one of the terrorists starts targeting Scot's friends and family, Scot discovers that the president won't allow the assassin to be hunted down. Soon enough, Scot is on the run from his own government and in pursuit of the killer. Alone, cut off by the President for unfathomable reasons, Horvath enlists the help of some close friends to follow the killer of his closest associates but always a step behind until the rip-roaring conclusion when he guns down the master terrorist.