Deep Black, Sean McFate
Deep Black, Sean McFate
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Deep Black
A Tom Locke Novel

Author: Sean McFate, Bret Witter

Narrator: Peter Berkrot, Jeffrey Kafer

Unabridged: 9 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 08/08/2017


Synopsis

Tom Locke must track a missing Saudi prince deep inside ISIS territory in this second military action thriller from the authors of Shadow War.Disillusioned after a mission in Ukraine goes tragically wrong, military contractor Tom Locke is on the run from Apollo Outcomes, a private military corporation run by the treacherous Brad Winters. While working undercover with his surviving team members on the frontlines of ISIS-infected Iraq, they are approached by a Saudi middleman who offers good money to find the missing son of a high-ranking government official.What Locke doesn’t know is that the missing young Prince may have been carrying the result of a secret agreement made with the Pakistanis in the 1960s, and that his father may or may not be trying to topple the Saudi government. As he pushes deeper into ISIS territory, Locke must figure out both the on-the-ground battle lines and the larger Deep State war he has stumbled into yet again.Who is the mysterious Saudi who hired Locke’s team? Is the prince’s disappearance personal or political? And how many sides are being played against each other in a Middle East torn apart by overlapping and contradictory alliances? To complete the mission and keep his men safe, the battle-hardened Locke must use every skill he has to defeat a fanatical enemy on the ground—while a duplicitous adversary much closer to home waits for his chance to strike. . . .

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 Suzi

not my usual read but very fast paced and interesting. you really want tom locke to make it through. this is a book with black ops and lots of military action.......more

Goodreads review by James

I loved this book! It is a gritty and non-stop action thriller that provides a realistic view of the unending military conflict in the Middle East. The action and the descriptions seem very realistic. There are lots of characters and the story is full of deceit, friendships, interesting life histori......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

Deep Black, by Sean McFate, was my kind of fast paced, high action thrill ride. The protagonist was likable but realistic about his chosen profession: paid mercenary. The story was so well written that I could almost taste the sand in my teeth and feel the hot grit under my collar. The ending was un......more

Fun, easy, beach read. I found out about this book because I was watching some documentary on Youtube (I forgot what the topic was about) and Sean McFate was one of the experts interviewed. I thought he was credible and intelligent, and when I found out he had written a fiction book, I had to read i......more

"Deep Black (Tom Locke#2)" by Sean McFate and Bret Witter was a fast paced high action thriller. The action starts immediately as two Saudi princes come under attack. Tom Locke (our hero) is a military contractor working undercover in ISIS-infected Iraq. He is hired to find a missing Saudi prince, t......more