High Treason, Sean McFate
High Treason, Sean McFate
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High Treason
A Novel

Author: Sean McFate

Narrator: Peter Berkrot, Jeffrey Kafer

Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/09/2020


Synopsis

“McFate just might be the next Tom Clancy, only I think he’s even better... The action is non-stop and shuttles back and forth between scary-believable and rollicking good fun. I read High Treason during a six-hour plane ride and the trip went by like the snap of my fingers.” —James PattersonIn this pulse-pounding action thriller perfect for fans of Brad Thor and David Baldacci, Tom Locke must stop dark forces working to overthrow the president
En route to the National Prayer Breakfast, the U.S. vice president’s motorcade is hit in a vicious, expertly planned attack that throws Washington, DC, into chaos. Everyone assumes it’s terrorists— everyone but young FBI agent Jennifer Lin. She is certain that the easy answers here are not the likely ones. . . . Half a world away, former military contractor Tom Locke has his own doubts about what happened—and who did it. He suspects his former employer, Apollo Outcomes. But why would the global private military corporation orchestrate such a brutal strike on U.S. soil?Returning to DC, Locke teams with Lin and discovers that a civil war is secretly brewing in the military-contracting world. A division of one company has gone rogue, led by a power-hungry former colleague of Locke’s who may have planned the attack on the vice president himself. But this man couldn’t have pulled it off without help from inside the government. The VP’s itinerary and route were confidential—which means there must be a traitor high up in either the White House or the NSA who is leaking information.But why? And who could be pulling the strings? Radical Islamic terrorists? Or is this a new ploy by Putin to subvert American leadership? Or is someone else behind the attack? Only Locke can get to the bottom of the conspiracy—and blow it apart with one bold strike before it’s too late.
“High Treason has brutal assassinations, shocking betrayals, even heated gun battles in the shadow of the White House. It had me breathless—from the sheer audacity of its storytelling to its breakneck pacing. It’s not to be missed!” —James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Odyssey

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by PamG on June 10, 2020

HIGH TREASON by Sean McFate is the third book in the Tom Locke military action thriller series, but it is the first one that I have read. It worked as a standalone, but I believe reading the series in order would provide additional background and character depth. When the U.S. President is sick, the......more

Goodreads review by Kim on May 27, 2020

High Treason was suspense-filled from beginning to end. In the spirit of Tom Clancy, this novel boasts military themes and technothriller action that kept me turning page after page late into the night. While this is the first book I have read following the author’s repeat character named Tom Locke,......more

Goodreads review by Mike on August 16, 2020

Blurbs promised “...better than Tom Clancy!”. It is a paint by number action thriller with cliched bad guys and indestructible heroes. Some of the tech was inventive, but the story wasn’t that intriguing.......more

Goodreads review by Sara on January 02, 2025

As I was returning this book to the library today, I was thinking about why I won't bother to read another book by this author, so here goes an updated review with why. Note, there are spoilers ahead, so stop reading now if you want to avoid them. Basically, the main characters Locke and Lin contribu......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on November 16, 2023

A solidly entertaining military thriller that you can read and enjoy while on the beach ... or on an airplane. Sean McFate has "walked the walk and talked the talk". He is an expert on strategy and international relations. A professor at the National Defense University, Syracuse University, and Georg......more