The Athena Project (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Gretchen "Gretch" Casey: Leader of the Athena Project and marksmanship expert. She was a lawyer before joining the unit.
• Megan Rhodes: Member of the Athena Project skilled in swimming and can be a stone-cold killer when necessary.
• Alex Cooper: Biracial daughter of Ethiopian mother and American father and member of the Athena Project. She engages in ultra-marathon running.
• Nino Bianchi: Black market arms merchant
• Jack Walsh: Joint Chiefs' director for intelligence
• Leslie Paxton: Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
• Jacqueline Marceau: Office of Strategic Services (OSS) female operative stole the Nazi's Kammler Dossiers in German-occupied France. The dossier included the Nazi's most promising scientific and military projects.
• Ryan Naylor: U.S. spy undercover as a trauma surgeon in Paraguay gathering intelligence regarding an al Qaeda training camp.
• Scot Harvath: A former Navy SEAL now working for a private intelligence agency funded by the Defense Dept. Harvath, the protagonist of other Brad Thor's thrillers, appears briefly 2-3 times in this novel.
• Riley Turner: Physician, semicompetative winter X-Games athlete, and early recruit to the Athena Project.
• Victoria "Vicki" Suffolk: Russian spy undercover as a University of Colorado graduate student
• Ben Matthews: FBI agent in their Denver office hoping to "flip" his love interest, Vicki Suffolk.
• Lt. Col. Rob Hutton: Provides oversight of the Athena Project as member of the Joint Special Operations Command.
• Jean "John" Vlcek: Former Delta operative who had served in the Bosnian invasion. Retired from the Delta force, he serves as a part-time consultant to a Czech firearms manufacturer.
• Radek Heger: Czech organized crime figure and current owner of Zbiroh Castle.
• Dean Pence: Ben Matthews' partner
• Peter Marcus: Vicki Suffolk's handler, trainer and lover
• Armen Abressian: A former Russian intelligence officer now working for the Russian mafia
• Thomas Sanders: Abressian's second in command
• George Cahill: Hedonistic physicist employed by Armen Abressian to oversee Project Amalgam.
• Viktor Mikhailov: Runs the Russian mafia in Croatia and funder of the Amalgam Project
• Pavel Skovajsa: Former Czech Special Forces soldier employed by Radek Heger and captured by the Athena Project

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Venice, Italy: Site of Athena Project mission involving the capture of Nino Bianchi.
• Fort Bragg, North Carolina: Delta Force's headquarters
• Zbiroh, Czech Rupublic: Location of the Zbiroh Castle commandeered by the Nazis during WWII and used by the SS as a electronic listening post and a cutting edge scientific facility.
• Denver, Colorado: Site of a secret governmental underground facility below the Denver Airport.
• Istanbul, Turkey: Abressian's base of operations

Organizations edit see section history

• Athena Project: Under the aegis of the Army's Special Operations Command, a group of female operatives.
• First Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta aka Delta Force: America's primary counterterrorism unit created in 1977.
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): Department of Defense agency with a mission to generate revolutionary capabilities for US warfare.
• Project Amalgam: Secret research project seeking to continue the Nazi's work of developing a teleportation device.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Brad Thor (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.6

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Political
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary