Brad Thor has a hard job. With each Scot Harvath book, Thor has to think of ever-greater threats to life as we know it so Harvath can save the day. In Code of Conduct, Harvath goes to Africa to investigate the scene of a video where some aid workers at a remote clinic were killed. In this war-torn region, African hemorrhagic fever is being weaponized.
The more Harvath learns, the more he realizes they are not simply dealing with biological warfare. Behind the ensuing world-wide outbreak Harvath finds a U.N. official whose grand schemes include exterminating the majority of the human race. Of course, in his scheme, he and his select companions survive to rule over what is left of humanity.
With the help of his friends at the Carlton group and in the global espionage community, Harvath manages to track down the evil mastermind of this plot and, well, save the world. You'd think he'd start getting the big head after all he does, book after book, but Harvath manages to stay humble and desperate to seek justice and kill all the bad guys.
The problem with a large-scale disaster story is capturing the urgency of the crisis. I only picked that up tangentially. Of course, any time Harvath is on the case, Thor writes with a sense of urgency. This applies whether he's stalking a single foe or if the future of humanity is at stake. So that's my only real complaint about Code of Conduct. It's a worthwhile Harvath story, but there's a nagging feeling that there should be more to it.
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