The Terminal List by Jack Carr
There seems to be a trend in movies lately to make characters gray. They’re not bad, but they’re not all that good, either. With so many gray characters out there, finding a hero you can cheer for without any reservations can be refreshing. Jack Carr provides that kind of character, and though there’s an argument that James is grayer in his tactics, telling a satisfying story about a good guy who wears the whitest of white hats and where the villains are unequivocally deserving of everything they’re going to get. His hero is sympathetic, and if Carr uses cheap tricks to create sympathy, remember that it’s a thriller, not literary fiction.
The Terminal List
The Terminal List #1
Thriller
Atria/Emily Bestler Books
March 6, 2018
Paperback
416
A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller that is “so powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written—rarely do you read a debut novel this damn good” (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece’s entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government.
Now, with no family and free from the military’s command structure, Reece applies the lessons that he’s learned in over a decade of constant warfare toward avenging the deaths of his family and teammates. With breathless pacing and relentless suspense, Reece ruthlessly targets his enemies in the upper echelons of power without regard for the laws of combat or the rule of law.
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