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Brad Thor

Brad Thor, a graduate of the University of Southern California, has served as a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Analytic Red Cell Program and is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Lucerne, Path of the Assassin,... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Never give up. Never give in.
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My life in 8 words: "The result of hard work and taking chances."
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Brad Thor Revealed

Brad Thor Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Never give up. Never give in. Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. Working out and shooting... Q. What are your 5 favorite songs? A. Flashlight, Guitars & Cadilacs, Back in Black, C'est Manifique, Ring of Fire Q. If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her? A. The prophet Mohammed."Put down the sword, look me in the eye, and tell me it's really a religion of peace." Q. What’s your greatest flaw? A. I grab checks way too quickly... Learn more about Brad Thor

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Frontpagemag.com, August 5, 2010
...Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author: "The Founding Fathers would not have stood for a statue of King George on the site of the Boston Massacre." "Sheer brilliance!...
Blogcritics.org, July 27, 2010
...Share In Foreign Influence, New York Times bestselling novelist Brad Thor once again takes us on the political thriller ride of our lives. His hero, Scot Harvath, now 40 and a veteran of the SEALs, the Secret Service and a...
Christian Science Monitor, July 20, 2010
...The Transformation of America 1815-1848" by Daniel Walker Howe. Week 2 it was "Foreign Influence", a thriller by Brad Thor involving a terrorist bombing in Italy. This week's choice: "Winston's War: Churchill 1940-1945" by Max Hastings, a book that...
Cleveland Live, July 17, 2010
...of Jane Austen, you will enjoy this modern day novel of love, betrayal, and loyalty. “Foreign Influence” By Brad Thor. June 2010; 373 pages Scot Harvath is back, this time working for a secret spy agency with the charter to “Find, Fix, and...
Guardian.co.uk, July 15, 2010
...Howe's What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848. Its readers are currently engrossed in the Brad Thor thriller Foreign Influence, in which a former navy Seal investigates the death of a group of American students in a bombing in...
New Yorker, July 14, 2010
...The Transformation of America, 1815-1848,” by Daniel Walker Howe. The current title, “Foreign Influence,” by the aptly named Brad Thor, sounds like the must-have book for beach week with the Heritage Foundation: “Buried within the black ops...
Corpus Christi Caller-Times, July 10, 2010
...takes a dig at Navigation District Commissioner Lamar Story. Farenthold had a Monday fundraiser co-hosted by best-selling author Brad Thor. Herrero and his wife welcomed their fifth child on Friday. CORPUS CHRISTI — Aransas County seeks Little Bay...
Corpus Christi Caller-Times, July 10, 2010
...takes a dig at Navigation District Commissioner Lamar Story. Farenthold had a Monday fundraiser co-hosted by best-selling author Brad Thor. Herrero and his wife welcomed their fifth child on Friday. CORPUS CHRISTI — During a Tuesday discussion of what...
Washington Post, July 10, 2010
...lives of several black maids working in a town in 1960s Miss.515FOREIGN INFLUENCE (Atria, $26.99)By Brad Thor. Scot Harvath joins a new covert ops team and is dispatched to Europe to track a terrorist. 16THE OVERTON WINDOW (Threshold, $26)By Glenn Beck....
The Nation, June 29, 2010
...most important fiction writers in the military/covert ops/political thriller genre dominated by right-wing, prowar authors like Tom Clancy, Brad Thor and Vince Flynn. Eisler is a political progressive who, in a different life, personally worked on the...
Interest!ALERT, June 28, 2010
...by Ambassador John Bolton) (Simon & Schuster). The book carries enthusiastic endorsements from Geert Wilders, Andrew C. McCarthy, Brad Thor, Caroline Glick, David Horowitz, and Mark Steyn. For more information, contact Pamela Geller at writeatlas@aol.com...
PR Newswire, June 28, 2010
...by Ambassador John Bolton) (Simon & Schuster). The book carries enthusiastic endorsements from Geert Wilders, Andrew C. McCarthy, Brad Thor, Caroline Glick, David Horowitz, and Mark Steyn. For more information, contact Pamela Geller at...
XinMsn, June 19, 2010
...blockbuster book, a thriller called The Overton Window, which comes with the requisite dramatic blue cover, blurb by Brad Thor ('The Last Patriot'), and star treatment for the author's name: a guy named Glenn Beck. The funny thing is, The Overton Window...
MSNBC Newsweek, June 17, 2010
...blockbuster book, a thriller called The Overton Window, which comes with the requisite dramatic blue cover, blurb by Brad Thor ("The Last Patriot"), and star treatment for the author's name: a guy named Glenn Beck. The funny thing is, The Overton Window...
FOXNews.com, June 15, 2010
...to? I loved how Michael Crichton explained global warming in "State of Fear." That book, along with Brad Thor's "The Last Patriot," were huge influences because they did such an amazing job of combining fact and fiction. What do you want readers to get...
Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, June 14, 2010
...it at the end of the day. What book are you currently reading? The Lions of Lucerne by Brad Thor If you could have dinner with any three living people, who would they be? (Authors? Leaders?) The current President of the United States at the time of the...
Philippine Star, June 3, 2010
...emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated. Second generation: Cecilia Licauco • Books by Brad Thor Brad Thor is a number one New York Times bestselling thriller novelist and author of The Lions of...
PublishersWeekly.com, May 3, 2010
...to 10 frontlist titles a year as well as 10 to 12 backlist. Pocket has started to reissue Brad Thor and Vince Flynn novels in the premium format, for example. Grand Central has found some success making mass market paperbacks the “third format” for...
San Angelo Standard-Times, April 24, 2010
...of suspense by Sharon Carter Rogers "East of the sun" by Julia Gregson "Foreign influence" a thriller by Brad Thor "Freedom" a novel by Daniel Suarez "Heresy" a thriller by S. J. Parris "Hero’s tribute" a novel by Graham Garrison "Kelly’s chance" by...
GQ US, March 30, 2010
...party. So be it. (Want more Beck madness? Previously we reviewed Vince Flynn's Pursuit of Honor and Brad Thor's The Last Patriot...
PublishersWeekly.com, March 25, 2010
...& Lincoln Child. Grand Central. (148,804). Dune Road. Jane Green. Viking (148,570). *The Apostle: A Thriller. Brad Thor. Atria. Fool. Christopher Moore. William Morrow (146,098). Tea Time for the Traditionally Built. Alexander McCall Smith. Pantheon...
National Review, January 20, 2010
...Twitter that Scott Brown should do the Republican State of the Union response. He should. UPDATE: And author Brad Thor adds: " Scott Brown should give response to SOTU, but in front of a townhall crowd! Not a static backdrop like Bobby Jindal."...
Morning Call, December 27, 2009
...read: Murder mysteries, military, biographies, fiction and non-fiction Favorite authors: W.E.B. Griffin, Fern Michaels, Dale Brown, Brad Thor, John Grisham, Joseph Finder, Brian Haig, Steve Martini, David Baldacci, Larry Bond, Lee Child, Patricia...
Telegraph, December 3, 2009
...a fierce critic of the current White House. According to a Publisher's Weekly excerpt on amazon.com, Brad Thor's 'The Apostle', deals with 'Robert Alden, the new and nave US president, [who] has just taken office with a landslide victory, due mainly to...
Telegraph, December 3, 2009
...a fierce critic of the current White House. According to a Publisher's Weekly excerpt on amazon.com, Brad Thor's "The Apostle", deals with "Robert Alden, the new and naïve US president, [who] has just taken office with a landslide victory, due mainly to...
National Review, December 3, 2009
...reading Kill Bin Laden . Additional images show cadets with On Killing by David Grossman and The Apostle by Brad Thor. This last book is the only one I know: Thor podcasted with NRO this summer. The novel includes an unflattering portrayal of an...
Guardian.co.uk, November 13, 2009
...like The Doomsday Key, The Dark Tide and The Last Patriot, the author of which, the improbably named Brad Thor, crowned Beck 'the new Oprah'. Though all his recommendations seem to be based exclusively on what's available in airport bookshops, Beck...
Guardian.co.uk, November 12, 2009
...like The Doomsday Key, The Dark Tide and The Last Patriot, the author of which, the improbably named Brad Thor, crowned Beck " the new Oprah ". Though all his recommendations seem to be based exclusively on what's available in airport bookshops, Beck...
National Review, October 28, 2009
...that that would likely never be allowed to air. And Flemming Rose can tell you why . (Listen to Brad Thor on NRO this summer here .) UPDATE: A reader writes: Hi K-Lo: HUGE Corner/NRO fan, but I have to correct you on Curb Your Enthusiasm post....
Sherman Denison Herald Democrat, September 4, 2009
...Lone Star by Ed Ifkovic; Black Hills by Nora Roberts; Shanghai Girls by Lisa See; The Apostle by Brad Thor; Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea; The Little Stranger by Sara Waters; and Loitering with Intent by Stuart Woods. There are hundreds...
ANSWERS For The Faith, June 30, 2010
...*NOW IN PAPERBACK By Brad Thor (New York: Pocket Books-Simon & Shuster, 2009, 516 pages)   Brad Thor’s latest ‘Scot Harvath’ action adventure. This time it takes place in Afghanistan. It begins with the...
Conservative Blog Watch, June 29, 2010
...Today's Between the Covers podcast is with Brad Thor , author of Foreign Influence . We discuss how thriller writers stay ahead of the news, Thor's involvement with the Department of Homeland Security's Analytic Red Cell Program, and...
World News 24/365, June 29, 2010
...Larry “Stage Right” O’Connor of Breitbart.tv interviews thriller writer and Big sites contributor Brad Thor: Read The Complete Story...
Straight From Hel, June 20, 2010
...number one on the Kindle store's technothriller bestseller list, higher than established authors like Tom Clancy and Brad Thor. In three months, my three books sold 7,500 copies and were selling at a rate of 4,000 books per month. That got the...
Ace of Spades HQ, June 16, 2010
...Overnight Open Thread Good evening and happy Hump Day all. Or is that just what they want you to think? Lego Gun Pron Okay a lot of the lets-build-X-out-of-Legos projects are at best mildly interesting despite the fact that some guy (and it's always a...
The Freedom Fighter's Journal, June 16, 2010
...the Pentagon knows that. After the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon convened a group of fiction writers like Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, Nelson DeMille and asked them to join in the war game sessions. It wasn't the first time they had talked to authors. I had...
From the Right Radio, May 12, 2010
...disturbing still. -- from the Foreword by Ambassador John Bolton Look what Geert Wilders, Mark Steyn, Caroline Glick, Brad Thor, Andrew McCarthy, and David Horowitz have said about the book here. BRING ATLAS TO YOUR TOWN! When my book The...
The Q, May 4, 2010
...Caught , Stephen Coonts' The Assassin , Brad Meltzer's The Book of Lies , Vince Flynn's Pursuit of Honor , Brad Thor's The Last Patriot , and James Rollins' The Doomsday Key and Daniel Silva's The Defector . Follow Verge Correspondent Zach Dionne on...
Lesa's Book Critiques, May 1, 2010
...only to a secret panel of military insiders. It's job is to target foreign and domestic enemies." Brad Thor's Foreign Influence finds Scot Harvath looking into his own past for a killer. How many June releases are you adding to your pile of books? Am I...
No More Grumpy Bookseller, April 24, 2010
...some convincing, you should head over to Ryan Brown's website to take a look at the trailer. Brad Thor calls this a combination of Friday Night Lights and Dawn of the Dead . And Jonathan Maberry says it's "...everything a 21st century zombie novel should...
A Bookworm's World, December 15, 2009
...to give it a try, I will happily mail it to you. Not to be confused with author Brad Thor !...
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, November 5, 2009
...stop on the book tour trail for publishers. In a NY Times article about this phenomenon, thriller author Brad Thor quipped: "He's our Oprah ... God love him, we're very fortunate." According to the article, Beck reaches 9 million radio listeners every...
The Corner on National Review Online, November 5, 2009
...My brand-new novel, a historical thriller called The First Assassin, is now available on Amazon.com. The listing is less than 24 hours old. You can order copies right now. My personal website has more about the book, but here's a brief plot...
Evil Avatar - News Items, October 5, 2009
...The new Permuted Press/Pocket Books edition of J.L. Bourne's bestselling zombie novel Day by Day Armageddon is now available for purchase from many offline and online stores including: * Amazon US * Amazon UK * Amazon Canada * Borders * Barnes & Noble...