A fast paced action thriller in which one must suspend belief that any single person could absorb as much physical punishment as the hero endures.

Fantastic first book by Brad Thor. This is a thriller in the genre of Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy or Vince Flynn.For a first offering the author sets a great storyline that could have others build off of it. A former NAVY seal who is now on the secret service detail for the president. He not only manages to help save the president's daughter but he also manages to keep from being killed, when many people who you think are working with him pursue him. This story has a lot of wonderful plot twists and turns that keep you guessing as what will happen next.I am looking forward to reading his next story (or listening to it as I did this one) in January.

"The Lions of Lucerne" reads like a first novel. The prose has a somewhat amateurish tint to it, as do the plot and some of the action scenes. Just one example of completely amateurish writing: there is a scene in which the protagonist assaults an FBI agent for insulting him. No doubt that is supposed to show how macho he is. Just not done, folks. Assaulting a Federal officer is a felony; any questions? Scenes like this rob this novel of authenticity. Further, the plot just does not cut the mustard. If the US President were kidnapped by terrorists there would be an uproar many orders of magnitude greater than this book envisions. And the President would not be rescued by a disgraced lone maverick. More would be telling, but really, there is not much more to be told. RJB.

After reading a lot of vince flynn and lee child, someone told me to read brad thor. Lions of Lucern was great. I really liked it, very similar to vince flynn, but what I really liked about this one, was the location. I have been to all the places where the action was in switzerland. A good read....

The Lions of Lucerne was Brad Thor's first book and it introduced the world to special agent/ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath.This is not a bad book, but I really wanted to like it more than I did. The dialogue is a bit week and the story is a bit convoluted; however, it is a great entry point into this amazing series. I am currently halfway through the sequel - Path of the Assassin - and I cannot emphasize enough how much better the sequel is!I do not want this review to be too disparaging, but compared to his more recent work - this book falls a bit short of the high bar that Brad Thor has set for himself since. However, being the completist that I am, I would recommend that you find out where and when special agent Scot Harvath got his start by reading this book.

I would've given this book one star, except the plot has enough twists and the pacing is brisk enough to earn a bump. However, I know middle schoolers that can write less ridiculous dialogue. The author has an incredibly irritating tendency to have each character repeat the last two or three words that were just spoken to them. In the beginning, it was only a minor annoyance for me, but further into the book, having it occur in literally every conversation and up to 8 times on a single page, I wanted to scream. I would have thrown the book in the garbage if I hadn't been reading it on my Kindle.