Foreign Influence

When a suicide bombing kills American college students in Rome, the evidence points toward a dangerous former colleague of Scot Harvath — and simultaneously, a hit-and-run in Chicago seems unrelated until a tenacious attorney starts pulling threads. Brad Thor's ninth Harvath novel interweaves two continents and a race to prevent an act of war on an unprecedented scale. The story rockets between investigation and action with Thor's characteristic momentum.

Armand Schultz's narration drives the dual-continent thriller with the clipped authority of a former intelligence professional, his voice calibrated to the novel's political urgency. At just over eleven hours, the production handles the dual plot lines efficiently, and Schultz's performance in the action sequences carries genuine tension without melodrama. A strong series entry that demonstrates why Harvath became one of thriller fiction's most durable characters.