Shadow War, Sean McFate
Shadow War, Sean McFate
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Shadow War
A Tom Locke Novel

Author: Sean McFate, Bret Witter

Narrator: Peter Berkrot, Jeffrey Kafer

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/10/2016


Synopsis

An army veteran with deep expertise in military and international affairs makes his fiction debut with this electrifying international thriller—the first volume in a blistering hot series in the tradition of Brad Thor, Tom Clancy, and Daniel Silva. In Shadow War, an elite American mercenary on a secret mission to save a businessman’s family in Eastern Europe must navigate perilous setbacks and deadly enemies that threaten to tip the balance of power between Russia and the United States.Tom Locke is an elite warrior working for Apollo Outcomes, one of the world’s most successful private contracting firms. Pulled out of a mission in Libya, he is tapped for an unusual and risky assignment: a top secret black op in Ukraine. He is given one week to rescue an oligarch’s family and pull off a spectacular assault that could have long-lasting repercussions for this imperiled Eastern European nation and the world.What Locke doesn’t know is that the operation comes with a dangerous complication: Brad Winters. Locke’s ambitious and enigmatic boss is engaged in a secretive, high-stakes geopolitical chess game with several influential powerbrokers in capitals around the world. One misstep could cost him—and Locke—everything.While Locke has methodically planned the mission and hand-picked a team of trusted operatives to pull it off—and save his ass if things go south—he doesn’t count on running into a former love, war correspondent Alie MacFarlane, who impulsively makes a move that risks both their lives. Locke is an intelligent, iconoclastic soldier who specializes in pulling off the impossible. But all his brilliant preparation can’t prevent the kind of backstabbing and deception that could lead to catastrophe . . . and tip the balance of power toward Putin’s Russia.

About Sean McFate

Sean McFate is a professor of strategy at the National Defense University and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank. He served as a paratrooper in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and then worked for a major private military corporation, where he ran operations similar to those in this book. He is the author of The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order, and holds a BA from Brown University, a MA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He lives with his wife in Washington, DC.

About Bret Witter

Bret Witter has co-authored eight New York Times bestsellers, including the #1 bestseller The Monuments Men. He lives with his family in Decatur, Georgia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ryan

Read this review and more at www.TheRealBookSpy.com Unlike the majority of new authors trying to make a name for themselves in the political and military-thriller genres, Sean McFate has lived the life he’s now writing about. Drawing from his own experiences, having served in the prestigious 82nd Airb......more

Goodreads review by Steve

Concept: First-person, mercenary (arms-bearing contractor, international man of mystery) action, shoot-em-up, global conspiracy thriller fiction. Something a little different, which is nice, but, alas, not as polished as the some of the best selling (and more popular) action/adventure series out the......more

Goodreads review by John

I was neither impressed nor unimpressed, but I’ll admit there are possibilities. 3-stars is a bit generous, but 2-stars would have been rude and wrong......more

Tom Locke, ancien soldat d’élite, employé d’Apollo Outcomes, spécialiste des actions sur le continent africain, se voit confier une mission à haut risque en Ukraine. Exfiltrer la famille d’un oligarque ukrainien, la mettre à l’abri, propulser son chef de famille sur le devant de la scène politique su......more

Goodreads review by E.P.

I stumbled upon this book when I read Sean McFate's rebuttal to Eric Prince's proposal to turn the US's operation in Afghanistan over to private contractors, aka mercenaries. Naturally I had to check out his novel, and I was not disappointed. When I say I was not disappointed, I must emphasize that t......more