The five candidates on the secret list to replace the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, who died suddenly, have disappeared. Who is the Fed going to call? Scott Harvath, of course. Brad Thor's Navy Seal, ex-Secret Service agent Harvath is back in Hidden Order: A Thriller. (Why the subtitle? It's pretty obvious that a Harvath book is going to be a thriller.)
Harvath has been working in the private sector, and this contract with the Fed is the chance to get the company back in the black. In the course of the investigation, Harvath teams up with a Boston detective (young, pretty, and available, of course) to track down a killer as the fed candidates turn up dead, murdered in complex, symbolic ways.
Besides the investigation itself, Thor spends a lot of time on the history of the Fed, including references to actual historical events and books of history and economics. This part of the story came off as a bit propagandistic. It was pretty clear that Thor was promoting a point of view here, but it doesn't distract too much from the narrative.
Thor fans will enjoy this story, even if the unnecessarily symbol-obsessed killer and the unrealistically complex conspiracy seem over the top. It's always fun to see what kinds of messes Harvath will get into and out of.
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