It looked like a blueprint for the Death Star with a good chunk blown away. Seen from above, the festival was laid out in the shape of a giant letter C, or two-thirds of a circle. With more than seventy thousand attendees, BRC was twice as dense as the City of London. He kept walking, scanning from left to right.īurning Man took place in a temporary “metropolis” built in the Black Rock Desert, which was called Black Rock City. “Fifty meters,” a disembodied voice said over the device pushed deep into his left ear. Clouds of the fine alkaline dust that covered the playa were swirling everywhere. Instead, the five-foot-ten-inch Harvath, with his sandy brown hair and his glacierlike blue eyes, wore a Continental Army coat and a full face of Cherokee war paint, obscuring his handsome features.Īs the wind kicked up again, he pulled a pair of steampunk goggles over his eyes and wrapped a keffiyeh around his face. It also wouldn’t have made sense for his assignment.

Costumes ran the gamut from Mad Max to Carnival in Rio.Īs fit as he was, he could have gotten away without wearing much of anything. Outrageous costumes were encouraged-as was “tasteful” nudity. The seven-day Burning Man event was an extreme, weeklong summer solstice festival held on a flat, prehistoric lakebed three hours outside Reno, Nevada. Desperate times, though, called for desperate measures. The CIA was forbidden to conduct operations inside the United States-especially the kind he was about to undertake.

Teeming with fascinating characters and electrifying intrigue, Brad Thor does it again and proves why he is known around-the-world as a master of thrillers. Hired on a black contract, Harvath provides the deniability the United States needs, while he breaks every rule along the way.

Where was he headed? What was he planning? And could he be connected to the “spectacular attack” they have been fearing all summer? In a race against time, the CIA taps an unorthodox source to get answers: Navy SEAL turned covert counterterrorism operative, Scot Harvath. Identified as a high value but missing terrorism suspect, his name sends panic through the Central Intelligence Agency. From the #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor comes “his very best” ( The Washington Times) thriller, following covert operative Scot Harvath as he is called upon to stop an ISIS-led plot to destroy the Vatican.Īs a storm rages across the Mediterranean Sea, a terrifying distress call is made to the Italian Coast Guard.

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