Friday, August 8, 2025

Book of the Week: Great Thriller! The Athena Project by Brad Thor

My dad loved reading paperbacks of fictional thrillers, espionage, counterterrorism. Before he passed in 2008, he would share them with me. I've read many of them. One author in particular that I enjoy is Brad Thor. In fact, when my dad passed, he hadn't yet finished one of Brad Thor's books, so I read the rest of it for my dad, knowing he could "hear" me read it. So, I keep reading Brad Thor books. The latest book is about 4 badass women in a counterterrorism unit called "The Athena Project." The book has a lot of detail, a lot of military inferences and takes the reader around the world to figure out the deadly mystery behind monoliths created by Nazi Germany as something to use in war.
It's the 10th in the "Scot Harvath" series, although doesn't appear in it much.  It's fascinating, strange, and action-packed! 5 of 5 stars!


Book Overview

From #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor, four deadly women from the top-secret Athena Project join Delta Force as they undertake one of the nation's most dangerous assignments.The world's most elite counterterrorism unit has just taken its game to an entirely new level. And not a moment too soon... From behind the rows of razor wire, a new breed of counterterrorism operator has emerged. Just as skilled, just as fearsome, and just as deadly as their colleagues, Delta Force's newest members have only one thing setting them apart--their gender. Part of a top-secret, all-female program codenamed The Athena Project, four of Delta's best and brightest women are about to undertake one of the nation's deadliest assignments.

When a terrorist attack in Rome kills more than twenty Americans, Athena Team members Gretchen Casey, Julie Ericsson, Megan Rhodes, and Alex Cooper are tasked with hunting down the Venetian arms dealer responsible for providing the explosives. But there is more to the story than anyone knows. In the jungles of South America, a young US intelligence officer has made a grisly discovery. Surrounded by monoliths covered with Runic symbols, one of America's greatest fears appears to have come true. Simultaneously in Colorado, a foreign spy is close to penetrating the mysterious secret the US government has hidden beneath Denver International Airport. As Casey, Ericsson, Rhodes, and Cooper close in on their target, they will soon learn that another attack--one of unimaginable proportions--has already been set in motion, and the greatest threat they face may be the secrets kept by their own government.

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