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The Thor Conspiracy

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I really enjoyed this book and once I started, I found it hard to put it down. Burkett sounds an alarm to all that will hear. He shows us how laws that are made supposedly for our own good, can also be used against us. Burkett challenges each of us to really think long and hard before we so casually give away our rights and freedoms. Although this book is fiction, it has an erie resemblance to actual current events.

This is an interesting book, and compelling for political conservatives like myself, but I still find many points of the plot to be very implausable.

For instance:

1) We are led to believe that "Aunt Anne" was killed by government enforcers after she blabbed about the top-secret "THOR" conspiracy. But then we are expected to believe that these same enforcers blindly had all her personal belongings sent to a relative without a search? Okay, maybe.

2) Andy Moss's estranged brother decides to send the original copies of the top secret "THOR" documents to Andy with no apparent goal in mind? And this after Andy's brother has realized the significance of the documents and has plans to cash in on his inside knowledge? This makes no sense. (Except to bring Andy into the plot for the purpose of bringing Dale Crawford into the plot.)

3) Andy Moss gets a 'funny feeling' for no reason and takes these incriminating top-secret files along with him when he fortunately decides to get dinner at the local fast food chain -- the same night that his apartment is ransacked by police looking for him and the evidence. TOO coincidental!

4) After Andy Moss's murder, Dale Crawford can think clearly enough to question his and the government's role in the cover-up, and to decide that he is going to flee Washington DC. However, Crawford can't think clearly enough to realize that government enforcers would be totally unaware of his involvement at this point. Duh.

Anyway, I could go on. I'm not claiming to know exactly how the book *should* have been written, and I did enjoy the book, but it would have been more satisfying if there weren't the little snafu's that plague this plot line.

This was a really good book. It shows just how bad things can get here in America in the event of a second great depression. This two book series also shows what happens to a nation that turns it's back on Israel. God said to Abraham in Genesis, "I will bless those that bless you and curse those that curse you." In the first book of this series, The Illuminati, the US actually TURNS ON Israel. America goes through some very rocky times with the next depression and people losing their personal freedoms. Here in this book, America has gone from being a free, prosperous nation to a totalitarian, impoverished nation. It just goes to show what can happen to America should she turn on Israel.

It also goes to show what can happen if gun ownership is outlawed. You will be at the mercy of violent street gangs. It even indicates in this book about law abiding citizens going to prison just for owning guns. If citizens have no means to defend themselves they would be at the mercy of outlaws and thugs mentioned in this book. One thing Burkette didn't mention was the gangs most certainly also practiced rape and forcing young women to be prostitutes. that have to have been practiced on a large scale. One other thing Burkette should have done was more research on Gangs. sorry if i sound nitpicky, but he mentions a crip in this book being of latino ethnicity. Since he was latino, Burkette should have made him Mexican Mafia, 18th St. Gang, or MS 13(Mara Salvatrucha). Crips are, for the most part, an African American gang.


Good book though, it shows an ordinary, docile, man manning up and doing the right thing in taking action against the evil totalitarian regime that has taken part in America. It somewhat reminds me of the book of Judges.

This standalone followup to Burkett's "The Illuminati" is another political conspiracy thriller. A government intern finds some old secret documents about a nuclear missile project, "THOR" which went wrong in the 1960s and was then classified. People involved died mysteriously. Now, disgruntled governemnt worker Dale Crawford gets his hands on the secret documents and is pursued by government agents who seem to want to silence him by any means necessary.

The story is set in a future America that is similar to the Soviet Union or the America in "Atlas Shrugged". Government controls everything, there's no freedom of speech, people are starving, there are riots in the streets and government employs street gangs to sell drugs and "keep order". All of this is somehow because of fanatic environmentalists. The politics is very heavy handed. At least in the first half of the book there's hardly a page where there's not some rant against goverment, environmentalists, or liberals. Like in "Illuminati" Burkett takes every opportunity to make sure the reader understands his political opinions and it gets preachy pretty quickly. This is the book's major flaw and it detracts much enjoyment from reading. For the most part, the plotting is decent (except for a way-too-long and detailed flashback sequence in the last third of the book and some subplot about Koreans that had almost nothing to do with the main plot) but the premise is ridiculous and the characters are one-dimensional.

This one lost me. I love dystopian novels. Conspiracy's etc. I felt the story was going somewhere special with Dale Crawford and Andy Moss. It started off very good. It kept my attention. But then around chapter 9 when more characters started being introduced, the story lost its appeal. And it lost me completely when Dr. Wells was introduced. Why? After chapter 9, there was hardly any conflict. The rest of the book is filled with lots of talking and exposition. That's great if you're into that but I'm not. You need conflict to make a great story. To keep the readers attention. No conflict, no story. If things are going well for the characters, the reader will be bored. Constant conflict. The very beginning of this book starts off with such great potential and the ending is not bad (and there are a couple of events in the middle) but the rest (85-90%) of the book is boring. I can't tell you how many times I had to skim the chapters to see if anything interesting would happen. Nice try though.

The book gives a very disturbing view of what could happen if government gets out of control and takes over private lives. It takes place in the year 2010, and the Illuminati is again trying to take over the world after destroying America's economy through the EPA. The nuclear bomb scenario is a little far out, but is still very well put. Less religious than Burkett's first book, this concentrates more on corruption in high places. Eerily true to life.

From start to finish this is the worst novel I have ever read. It is poorly written. Every character is a completely undeveloped stereotype. Dialogue is absurdly bland, predictable, and repetitive.

In addition to these flaws, The Thor Conspiracy is presented in an annoying manner. All character thoughts are italicized, putting much of the text in italics. There are more exclamation points than any other form of punctuation. Everyone is always yelling at everyone else, usually closing with the term "idiot!" Perhaps this is where Napoleon Dynamite picked up this term, although in the Thor Conspiracy the continuous use of "idiot!" is supposed to provide emphasis in tense situations, not comic relief.

I stumbled across this abomination at my public library, and am disappointed to find that such a poorly written book would make it into the catalogue. I wonder if this book was self published.

Government intrigue, environmental issues, and conspiracy can all make for entertaining topics. If this type of book suits you, Clive Cussler, Robert Ludlum, or Michael Chrichton all have decent offerings. I was hoping to get this kind of easy to read, entertaining book when I picked up The Thor Conspiracy. To my dismay I picked up this thinly veiled propaganda piece trotting out the author's childish, simplified, black and white, cowboys and indians, worldview.

Make no mistake: it was not the propaganda that bothered me. I have read propoganda that has entertained me. I cannot overemphasize how wretched this book is, from cover to cover. On Amazon you can read the first few pages. If you are considering this purchase, please read these pages first. I regret that I will never regain the time I wasted on this book. I would most likely have been better off staring blankly at the seat in front of me.

Great book. I read this in college after reading the majority of Illuminati. I could not put the book down because some of the things that took place in the book matched what was going on in the world at the time. Never mind how long I have been out of college but you get the picture. As a conspiracy buff, I was eating it up. This is a must read!!!!!!!!!!

In his second fictional work, Burkett portrays a time in the future when America is held captive by the EPA and an extremist environmental agenda based on a cover-up of a 1960's neuclear test gone bad. As a wealthy television executive, former EPA regulator, and computer genious come together against difficult circumstances, they expose the true causes behind global warming. Highly recommended reading.

The book is a view into the year of 2010 with a twist from a sixties missle test. Although the coincidenses are somwhat far fetched the plot ties them together well. I gaurantee this is one that will have you thinking for days with its close relationship to history and real people. I promise you won't put it down till it's done then you'll want to read it again.