International politics is a big game, also in literature. And authors like brad thor They know how to make the most of this type of approach to present a singular intrigue that moves between the appearances of diplomacy and the dirty game that undermines that theater of understanding between countries, all of which is staged around Islamic terrorism.
In the specific case of this book Outside agentWe are moving in a current war zone, the cradle of the Islamic state in Syria. Specialized agents and US politicians share a floor where a direct attack operation against an important ISIS leader is centralized.
What seemed to be an operation executed to the millimeter, a new goal for Western democracy collapses when the safe house is attacked by terrorists. The violence used on those who are there, spread to the whole world through social networks, reveals the weaknesses of an operation that takes lives ahead of its disastrous failure.
How did ISIS know that the team was in Syria? Doubts about possible leaks unleash a cascade of harsh disapprovals, internally among the US political class and abroad with the countries suspected of having stolen the information.
Scot Harvath, as a special agent for these types of avatars, must assemble his own team and assume the risks of a new operation in a stormy and destabilized situation, where security is a forgotten premise. What Scot and his team can get to know, amid the tangle of information that flows without ever knowing what is true and what is false, will jeopardize the international relations of great powers, with the risks of new ones. world conflicts.
Scot and his team risk their lives between that crossfire, the real of the weapons that fire on them and the one that looms at the political level, with opposing and buried interests that move the protagonist between confusion and bewilderment, where only by forcing situations at the edge can reveal some truth in everything that is happening.
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