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The Terminal List

James Reece, Book 1

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR! A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller. Perfect for fans of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, Stephen Hunter, and Nelson DeMille.

'Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!' Chris Pratt, star of the #1 Amazon Prime series The Terminal List.

'So powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written—rarely do you read a debut novel this damn good' Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Lucerne.

'Told with a deft hand and a keen eye for detail, The Terminal List [...] is explosive and riveting' Kevin Maurer, co-author of No Easy Day.

On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece's entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush.

But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government.

Now, with no family and free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons that he's learned in over a decade of constant warfare toward avenging the deaths of his family and teammates.

With breathless pacing and relentless suspense, Reece ruthlessly targets his enemies in the upper echelons of power without regard for the laws of combat or the rule of law.

©2025 Jack Carr (P)2025 Simon & Schuster, UK
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Wasn’t sure what to expect I had watched the tv show first and enjoyed but the book is so much better really had me hooked so excited to get into more in this series

Gripping

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Riveting and well written this story touches your emotions and gets you on side with the righteous reckoning delivered by the unflinching James Reece

Action packed revenge story

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Great modern revenge story set in modern times and filled with super accurate depictions of all things military and special operations. And what a great job by the reader, surely the best in the business. This book will keep you listening just to hear what comes next. And it never gets boring or disappoints.

Revenge has never been so sweet

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This is a brilliant revenge story about a man who deserves his revenge, plenty of action and the best narrator, one of the best books.

Brilliant

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Genuinely one of the worst books I've ever read - and not even Ray Porter's as-usual awesome narration could save it. The book is just a homage to gun violence. The author is just using the book as a vehicle for his rancid right wing politics - and it makes the protagonist irredeemably unlikable to the point where you end up hoping the "bad guys" actually win. The book is little more than an ultra-violent sociopath going on a murderous rampage while wailing on about the evils of the "far left" - there's no depth to his character, no real storyline beyond a serious a brutal revenge missions, and not even any attempt at moral justification of his actions. There are also serious racist undertones within the book. In the author's world, every problem would just be solved if white, male, PTSD-suffering army grunts were given free license to carry advanced weaponry around the streets of America to blow up any 'lefty' problems they encounter. This book just reads like propaganda. The biggest irony? While the author rails against the "far left" throughout the book, he published it in the very same year that Donald Trump began literally doing many of the things that he rails against (rampant corruption, clamp down on civil liberties, targeting of political enemies etc).

Absolute trash

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