Brad Thor on his New Book Choke Point – Epi-3854

About this episode

Brad Thor discusses his new thriller 'Choke Point' and the real-world threats that inspired it.

Brad Thor joins us today to discuss his new Scot Harvath thriller, Choke Point. Brad is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty six thrillers, with a career built on taking real world threats, intelligence failures, terrorism, geopolitics and national security blind spots, then turning them into fiction that feels a little too close to tomorrow’s headlines. This is not just a conversation about a new book. Brad has served as a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Analytic Red Cell Unit, lectured law enforcement on future threats, and even shadowed a Black Ops team in Afghanistan … Continue reading →

People in this episode

Host: The Survival Podcast

Guest: Brad Thor

Topics covered

• thriller
• national security
• geopolitics
• intelligence
• terrorism
• fiction

Keywords

• Brad Thor
• Choke Point
• thriller
• national security
• geopolitics
• terrorism
• fiction

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Department of Homeland Security

Books & works: Choke Point, Scot Harvath

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