MWSA Review

Terror’s Sword: A Kyle McEwan Novel by Kevin Kuhens is a gripping, action-packed example of art imitating life. Kyle McEwan is the hero of this exciting saga. His bravery, intelligence, and unconventional skills are unmatched. McEwan’s reputation for success and dogged determination has come to the attention of the President of the United States when the country is threatened by a cunning terrorist with a deadly bio-weapon. Motivated by revenge, religious fanatics led by Al-Dosari conjure up an evil, devious plan for death and destruction in the Western world. McEwan vows to stop this elusive man with or without the sanction and backing of the US government. POTUS knows the only chance of thwarting the Al-Dosari, aka The Terror’s Sword, is to put Kyle McEwan in charge of the plan. This alone ruffles the feathers of many heads of the alphabet soup agencies in Washington, and McEwan is faced with those who subvert his efforts of keeping tactics and operations on a need-to-know basis.

Kuhens provides edge-of-your-seat entertainment from beginning to end. Terror’s Sword is the consummate thriller packed full of psychological one-upmanship. The author paints an action-packed picture of the real world, real locations, and real military scenarios.

To quote Grant Stinchfield, four-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter: "Terror's Sword is a counterterrorism espionage thriller that goes into the deep state, politics at its absolute worst, and the heroism of those trying to do what's right inside government. Kuhens knocks it out of the park with this one.” I wholeheartedly agree with him. Terror’s Sword is a great read.

Review by Nancy Panko (March 2023)

 Author's Synopsis

Target America. An attacker known only by the nom de guerre Terror’s Sword is headed for the US to commit mass murder with an undetermined bioweapon. When conventional intelligence methods fail to identify the terrorist and define the threat, the president taps the only resource that matches this clever and elusive foe. Elite counterterrorism case officer Kyle McEwan is the off-the-books weapon America’s chief executives unleash when all else fails.

McEwan establishes the threat as legitimate and imminent by connecting kidnappings and murders of the world’s foremost bioweapons experts. Tracking the terrorist, McEwan and special operations forces conduct raids in the Middle East and Africa. The actions produce evidence unmasking the terror mastermind and identifying the bioagent as a virus genetically altered by gain-of-function research. Despite these discoveries, America’s greatest scientific minds cannot invent a medical cure to counteract the deadly virus. The world faces an untreatable pandemic if the attack on America succeeds.

With the attack looming, McEwan battles both embedded terror cells and powerful deep state forces whose political machinations complicate his search and increase the likelihood of an attack on US soil.

Global survival hangs in the balance as two deadly weapons hurtle toward each other: the terror mastermind determined to strike, and McEwan resolved to stop him. Who prevails?

By probing presidential decisions and political factors impacting military, intelligence, and law enforcement operations and personnel, the novel immerses readers in the real-world inner workings that thwart terrorist threats and the obstacles that sometimes impede those efforts.

Format(s) for review: Paper and Kindle

Review Genre: Fiction—Mystery/Thriller

Number of Pages: 362

Word Count: 96,000