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    The Athena Project: A Thriller
    The Athena Project: A Thriller
    The Athena Project: A Thriller
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    The Athena Project: A Thriller

    Written by Brad Thor

    Narrated by Elizabeth Marvel

    4.5/5

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateNov 23, 2010
    ISBN9781442335813
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    Brad Thor

    Brad Thor is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three thrillers, including Dead Fall, Black Ice (ThrillerFix Best Thriller of the Year), Near Dark (one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Books of the Year), Backlash (nominated for the Barry Award for Best Thriller of the Year), Spymaster (named “One of the all-time best thriller novels” —The Washington Times), The Last Patriot (nominated Best Thriller of the Year by the International Thriller Writers association), and Blowback (one of the “Top 100 Killer Thrillers of All Time” —NPR). Visit his website at BradThor.com and follow him on Facebook @BradThorOfficial, on Instagram @RealBradThor, and on X @BradThor.

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    • 3/5
      I did not enjoy this reading by a woman. It was harder to follow. I do understand tho
    • 5/5
      You could never loose interest in a Brad Thor book :) and this is no exception! a fast paced roller coaster ride, with pieces of puzzles falling into place as you go along! Narrator Elizabeth Marvel was perfect for this project, just as Armand Schultz is perfect for the Scott Harvath series.....although we still got a glimpse of Scott in this one too :)
    • 4/5
      My opinion: I was so excited to get this book. After reading the synopsis, who wouldn't want to read a book about a group of women who kick butt for a living? The four main characters of this book are Julie, Gretchen, Megan, and Alex. They make up part of a faction of the Department of Defense (DoD) called The Athena Project. It basically goes off of the principal that women are better able to carry out some missions, as they are seen as less of a threat and can slip by unnoticed a lot of the time. Gretchen Casey is kind of the leader of this group, but they're all tough cookies. This book pretty much revolves around some potential terrorists getting ahold of some old Nazi technology: a transporter that could be used to move people...or to send bombs to their enemies. The U.S. government knows that if this horrific technology fell into the wrong hands, it could be catastrophic. So they send in the four women to bring down some of the major players, try to get them to talk and find out whatever they can. Will they be able to stop these madmen before they can unleash their weapons on the world? I wasn't 100% sure I would like this book much when I first started it...there was a lot of government and military in the beginning, and while I felt it was probably important to the story line, I found it hard to get interested in it. Once the women start going out on missions and taking down the bad guys, it got a lot better. There were quite a few intense action scenes and a lot of humor thrown in along with it. All in all it was a good read, and I hope there will be more books in the future with these characters! My rating: 4/5 stars
    • 4/5
      I have enjoyed all of Brad Thor's books and this was no exception. I liked the idea that the Athena Project team was made up of all women. The book moved along quickly even though Thor jumped between several storylines. The only negative comment would be about the abrupt ending. It seemed that when Thor decided to end the book and conveniently killed the bad guys with an F-16 air strike in the last 20 pages. There was a teaser at the very end that leads the reader to think there might be another book with the Athena Project team.
    • 3/5
      A thriller that focuses on a Delta Force team - female undercover, government-sanctioned counter-terrorists who are not above doing some really violent things in their quest to eliminate the bad guys - how can you go wrong? The story is a quick read, filled with action, and never boring. Equipment from some truly horrible Nazi experiments has been rediscovered and apparently is being used again. Throw in the whole DIA (Denver International Airport) conspiracy theories, and you have a wild ride.The prologue is quite violent, and a mystery until farther into the book. The violence doesn't end there, of course. Do the ends justify the means? There are bad guys galore, and some questions about who is good and who is bad. The women are tough and smart, none of this whimpering, "I need to be taken care of" attitude. The author states "all of the science in this novel is based on reality," and I found the science and history fascinating.There are a few things that caused me to give the book a lower rating than I would have otherwise. Too many gunfights at the OK Corral, and how is it that with all the automatic weapons fire aimed at them, the important characters seem to manage to never get hit? It didn't seem very realistic, but that is a common peeve of mine in thrillers. The women, and for that matter, some of the male characters, would be called by their first names, their last names, their nicknames, and it was tough keeping them all straight. After reading a comment by a friend who had already read the book, I jotted down some of the names and characteristics of the key players. That helped.I don't think that would have been necessary if the characters had more depth. Some of the female seemed almost interchangeable. Their conversation was sometimes stilted and too cute. Maybe this one was taller than that one, or blonder, but I never got to really know them. Their conversations were sometimes stilted and too cute. But perhaps I am expecting something of a thriller that does not work in one. Perhaps knowing the characters better would have bogged down the story. All in all, this is a fast-paced and exciting read.Thank you to the publisher for providing a copy of the book for my review.
    • 2/5
      A man's take on women. Read if you like stereotypical "Charlie's Angels" women agents. The plot and action are good.
    • 4/5
      I liked the Athena women when Thor introduced them in Foreign Influence and it was clear then that they were destined for a spin-off. I may like this series, but Thor needs to do much more to make each woman individual. Taking a few paragraphs at the beginning of the book (literally) to describe each woman and try to explain how she differs from the others simply didn't individualize them enough for me. That said, I did like that they weren't quite as indestructible as Scot Harvath. It will be interesting to see where this series goes.
    • 3/5
      This was actually kinda lousy. I had high hopes for a terrorism-fueled story in which a team of specially trained female Delta soldiers take out the bad guys, but Thor jams in waaaay too many characters to flesh out believably and sympathetically.Disappointing.
    • 3/5
      A decent book, but I had hoped for a lot more. The plot seemed a little confused. There were two or three plot points that could have been explored in much more detail. It seems more a series of action sequences separated by exposition chapters and ends very abruptly.
    • 3/5
      This could have been a comic book, w/all the characters involved. I could call all the "exciting" situations that the girls found themselves involved with, but you knew they was going to either talk their way out of it or shoot it out! Surprised I lasted the entire book and disappointed in the story line of Brad Thor. I was generous with a 2½ star rating.
    • 4/5
      Brad Thor has brought front and center a small team of elite female counter terrorism operatives from a support role in his previous book. The action is nonstop, the plot a bit implausible but Thor makes it work, and the Delta Force team is a breath of fresh air. While I thought the author should improve his skill at writing dialogue--the dialogue among the four females seemed forced and occasionally silly--the women handled with military precision all of the dangerous situations they encountered; and there were a lot. It was an enjoyable read.
    • 2/5
      Definitely a fun, suspenseful page turner, this was like a cross between Charlie's Angels and James Bond. In fact, the book is pretty much all plot, not that that is necessarily terrible.I had one main issue. Thor repeatedly switches back and forth between his characters' first and last names, even in back-to-back sentences. If you're going to be that annoying, the least you can do is not give one of the main characters a last name that could also be someone's first name. Poor job, editors. I really didn't even mind the fact that Thor made the female main characters only just barely different from each other, though I did find it a bit strange. It definitely did not make it easier to remember which character was which.Some smaller issues: I thought the resolution could have been a little better, with more justice and all that. This book also includes the overplayed and lazy trope of the bad guys having terrible aim and/or luck with their firearms.Spoiler:Seriously, how do the four women that were led into the Engeltor by the evil scientist not appear in the South American forest out of the blue to the American team of investigators. Thor could have made some easy changes to make that work. That would have been hilarious.And, why doesn't Pence just shoot Matthews in the face at the end? Thor already proved he's a cold-blooded killer.
    • 4/5
      Too many names to keep track of, and not a few plots that intertwine, but pretty good -- I like the idea that Brad Thor is using female protagonists in what is ostensibly a man's world.
    • 5/5
      The Athena Project by Brad ThorReviewed by Moirae the fates book reviews.The forces of counterterrorism never rest in this new full-throttle Brad Thor thriller. The Athena Project engraved in the title is the code name for the training of an elite team of multi-skilled female warriors recruited from world champion athletes. Once deployed, these superlatively conditioned operatives will pursue missions even more dangerous than impossible. Covert action; military intrigue; reader excitement.(Synopsis provided by goodreads.com)When I heard about a book that stars an elite all female delta force team I was very excited. I love reading books about strong women that can kick some ass and hold their own. It’s a thing I think we need more of in the literary world. This is the first book by Brad Thor that I have read, and I must say, I am now hooked! I will be looking for more of his titles on my next trip to the book store.This was such an intriguing and thrilling ride! Full of action, mystery, suspense and wit. The women are all very strong and not someone I would want to cross! This is a difficult book to review without any spoilers. TAP (The Athena Project) is the code named given to the women.The book begins in a “flash back” to 1944 in Europe. When it flashes forward to the present day, the TAP members end up traveling to South America, where they uncover secrets from World War two. I loved Thor’s writing style and how all his characters are connected. He has excellent dialog and the character development is flawless. Each of his TAP members are very different in their personalities, I never felt as if they were carbon copies of one another. The way gives the reader just a little bit of information here and there is like a bread trail all the way to the end of the book. I was always on the edge of my seat with this book waiting to see what was going to happen next. This is one of the best books I have read this year. I highly recommend it!Over all rating***** 5 out 5 starsCover Art:I really liked the cover art, it gives off a very mysterious vibe. Obtained:I was send a copy for review by the publisher thank you!
    • 2/5
      Kind of corny. Decent action. Dialogue was sophomoric.
    • 5/5
      As the father of a young woman, I really enjoyed the female characters and how they weee developed.
    • 4/5
      Great thriller for fans of James Rollins or any CIA, FBI or spy novel.
    • 3/5
      Although I found the plot interesting–an all-women Delta team engaged in the search for a secret buried by the Germans after the war–the writing itself was somewhat stilted and lacked flow.