The Disciple

Tommy Carmellini, Book 4

By: Stephen Coonts

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

The Iranian effort to develop nuclear weapons was the inspiration for this tale of spies, assassination, skullduggery, military action, and political intrigue.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the Devil's Disciple, and he has a plan. With 12 nuclear warheads mounted on 12 missiles, he will make Iran a martyr nation; then he will lead the world's Muslims in a holy war against Western civilization. It is up to Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini to save the world as we know it from the clutches of Islamic fascist fanatics.

As hot as today's headlines, The Disciple is Stephen Coonts at the top of his game. Spies, soldiers, scholars, fighter pilots, patriots, traitors, presidents, and ayatollahs are all here within the pages of The Disciple. Not since Cuba has Coonts written a novel as big and bold as this, a novel that catches the dreams and aspirations of a nation.

©2009 Stephen Coonts (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Interesting chain of events.

Jake and Tommy make a good team and the decisions they have to make with the information at hand.

Absolutely outstanding story

This a spell-binding story, so up-to-date, that you'll believe it is taking place now, 2010. The ending will surprise you and rightly so. You only wish that Stephen Coonts could make real life come to the same conclusion.

Fan of Tommy? You will be dissappointed

This book can only loosly be called a Tommy Carmillini novel. Unilke the 3 pervious novels with Tommy, this one Tommy only makes a few token appearences. While the story is well written and the battles interesting, I like novels that also invest in and give lots of text to the lead character. This novel did not do that. And with less Tommy time, there was less humor and what their was, wasn't delivered as well by the reader. Since Liars & Thieves, The Traitor and The Assassin did provide lots of character time I found this novel and Pirate Alley dissappointing.

Another solid story.

This is another solid story from Stephen Coonts highlighting the exploits of Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmalini. Of all of the Audible releases so far in this series, this performance has been my least favorite. It's a little stiff.

Clancy and Haig

This book seems like it was written by both Tom Clancy and Brian Haig lol.
Great book!