I just hope terriorist get any ideas from this book. Although it got heavy with the technical aspects this was a great thriller that I hope never come to be. Enjoy the read, but not in the dark :) ( )

I started this book but made the mistake of loaning it to a friend who loves this author and it hasn't been returned. I guess she really loves the book! Last time I loan without reading first. :(

A terrifying thriller that has you wondering this could happen in real life! Terrorists strike fear in the hearts of Americans with numerous coordinated attacks across the country led by Osama Bin Laden's hand picked heir apparent. A great read though at times a little too technical, but recommended reading! ( )

The Inheritor is a standard boilerplate near-future military/intelligence thriller following the terrorist attacks by Osama Bin Laden's heir apparent, who had been laying low with a giant cash fund, setting sleeper cells in America waiting for the time to strike. Which was now apparently. The terrorist attacks and federal response are realistic, the details of the novel are on point, but a big problem with the novel is that a lot of the details that the author chooses to elaborate on are the mundane day to day tasks of desk workers for an intelligence agency. There is no emotional connection to the characters, and two thirds of the way through the book, there is no real plot to speak of, simply a series of related events. As the first book of a planned series, it may serve as a prologue, but falls short of the incredibly high bar that Tom Clancy has set for this genre. Every author in the genre aspires to Clancy, but the events in the Inheritor only amount to the first several chapters of a Clancy novel, serving to set up the main plot, but certainly not its own arc. ( )

Of the Tom Clancy genre, the plot revolves around an Islamist terrorist who sets up a series of attacks on major US energy infrasturcture. They are well planned and each comes as a total surprise to the US. The attacks are certainly within the realm of possibility which makes them that much more frightening. The terrorist is named Aziz Abdul Muhammad and was hand picked by Osama Bin Laden to succeed him, hence the name “The Inheritor.”

Intelligence officer David Cain, Air Force Sergeant Emily Thompson and FBI Agent Dave Johnson work as a team to search out Aziz and his operations expert. Their search takes them far afield but just as they seem on the verge of solving the problem another attack takes place.

There is certainly a great deal of technical information set out in the story which is very interesting but it does not grab the reader as a Clancy story does. However unlike Tom Clancy’s approach “The Inheritor” does not end well for America. ( )