THE TERMINAL LIST by Jack Carr

 Finished Sa 6/11/22

The reason I read this book is that I learned that a mini-series will be dropped of this book at Amazon Prime on July 1st. Jack Carr was on J.R.E and Joe mentioned that Carr is about the only fiction author he reads. Rogan uses the audio books and Carr said that the guy that reads his books is the most popular 'reader' of audio books on the planet. Makes sense that there are awards for the charismatic person that reads the books. 'It's a novel about revenge. Someone attacks and harms the hero and he kills everyone even remotely connected to the transgression. Even you can believe the premise (seems like fantasy) then you won't be let down. 

I tried to buy some of Carr's novels at Amazon but they were all too expensive. Yesterday was the library book sale and I found one of his novels and got it for a buck. 

Lieutenant Commander James Reece learns that he did not lose his team in a firefight in Afghanistan, but he was set up by American officials high up in the Department of Defense. So he murders everyone connected to this crime. 

The reason that the authorities killed the Seals unit is that they were trying to develop a drug that would end PTSD. However, when they take the medication they acquire brain tumors. One of the reasons Reece can kill everyone in sight is that he believes that he also has a deadly brain tumor but at the end of the book he learns that the tumor is not terminal. This novel is the first in the series. 

One man is sliced in the stomach, one end of his intestines are nailed to a tree and he is forced to walk around the tree until his guts are wrapped around the tree. I can't wait to see how they handle this in the film version of the book.    

From a Simon McDonald blog:

"Navy SEAL Commander James Reece is the sole survivor of a mission gone wrong in Afghanistan. He had a bad feeling about the op from the start, and back home, his attempts to mollify his concerns and unearth the truth are stonewalled by the top brass.

Soon, during a routine CT scan, Reece learns he has a brain tumor. Alarmingly, so did other members of his team, which can’t be a coincidence. Then he discovers the bullet-riddled corpses of his pregnant wife and baby daughter at his house in Coronado, California. And Jack knows he has become unwittingly embroiled in the machinations of a secret cabal. But his enemies have made a fatal error. They’ve unleashed an apex predator; stripped a trained killer of the only things that kept him human and reigned in. And a man like that, with nothing to lose, wants only one thing: revenge.

The action comes thick and fast, and crackles with insider information, some of which has been redacted by the Department of Defense, leaving a trail of blacked-out sentences and words throughout the text, which prove more distracting than intriguing. Carr’s level of detail when it comes to weaponry and tech is almost Clancy-level, and his hero’s homicidal tunnel-vision delivers a high body count and ingenious methods of killing for readers who might think they’ve seen it all before.

“The Terminal List” is not a novel that delves into the morality of Reece’s kill spree. Revenge does not poison his soul. This is action-lit at its purest, for fans of Flynn, Hurwitz, Greaney, and Ludlum of yore: one crusading individual against an impossibly powerful adversary. It won’t turn you into a fan of the genre, but for stalwarts, there’s plenty to enjoy."