The Lions of Lucerne
In his daring and chilling first novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor draws us into a sinister labyrinth of political intrigue and international terrorism, serving up an explosive cocktail of unrelenting action as one man is pushed to the edge.
On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the President of the United States has been kidnapped and his Secret Service detail massacred. Only one agent has survived—ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath. He doesn’t buy the official line that Middle Eastern terrorists are behind the attack and begins his own campaign to find the truth and exact revenge. But now, framed for murder by a sinister cabal, Harvath takes his fight to the towering mountains of Switzerland—and joins forces with beautiful Claudia Mueller of the Swiss Federal Attorney’s Office. Together they must brave the subzero temperatures and sheer heights of treacherous Mount Pilatus—where their only chance for survival lies inside the den of the most lethal team of professional killers the world has ever known…
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Brad Thor
In a crowded field of espionage fiction, Brad Thor writes like someone who assumes the threat briefing just ended and the clock is already ticking.
Born in Chicago in 1969, Thor did not begin his career in a bunker or on a battlefield, but in classrooms and television studios. He studied creative writing, film, and television at the University of Southern California, graduating with honors, and later created and hosted the PBS travel series Traveling Lite. That early immersion in visual storytelling left its mark. His novels move with the clean precision of a well-edited scene, locations rendered sharply, action unfolding in tight, escalating beats.
Scot Harvath
Across war-torn cities, secret corridors of power, and the hidden networks of global terror, this series follows a man whose skill and instinct make him a formidable counterbalance to chaos. Each mission pulls him into the shadows of geopolitics, where the stakes are measured not just in lives, but in the fragile balance of nations. The world he navigates is meticulously crafted, from bustling urban centers to isolated compounds, every location alive with tension and threat.
Scot Harvath consists of twenty-five primary books, and includes three additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

