The wording is practically identical from chapter to chapter, character to character. There is no variation to this anger between characters. He tells us over and over again how angry each and every character is, battering us with paragraphs and paragraphs about how pissed off they are at the terrorists and their attacks.

Thor's messages was made all the more clunky by his apparent need to beat us over the head with words such as 'America', 'Patriot', and 'Terrorist'.

To top off my disdain for Brad Thor's overbearing political propaganda, there was also his lack of basic writing ability. For showing a difference of opinion? Said fictional president later pretty much declares war on Islam as a whole, extremist or not, and we are still supposed to root for this guy? Wait, what? Thor and his characters, and forced to resign. The one major political opponent to the fictional president's policies, the one I frankly agree with, is laughed out of the room, by both Mr. I'm all for loving and fighting for one's country, but the message given by this book is that anyone who isn't out on the front lines, who isn't willing to torture prisoners, who shows even an ounce of pacifism (or even basic humanity towards one's enemies) is just as bad as the terrorists. Thor takes the idea of patriotism to another level.

He is condescending and insulting to the characters that hold different viewpoints, and by extension towards those readers that hold different viewpoints (myself being one of them). The author spends most of his time whacking us over the head with his political views, rather than focussing on the story. Those that aren't exact clones of the others were either terrorists or made out to be idiots. Just about every character is an arrogant, judgemental, testosterone driven prick. However, when there is more focus on said views than an actual story, then I get a little annoyed. I don't really care what Brad Thor's political views are, I don't particularly care that he and I differ, and I don't even mind if he infuses those views into the novel. However, any chance the book had was ruined by the fact that it functioned better as a piece of right wing propaganda than as a piece of entertainment. This book may have passed for a decent, somewhat badly written yet still entertaining, espionage thriller.

Brad thor the last patriot