“With everybody wanting to be at home and binge-watch or stream, this is definitely the way to tell this story rather than cramming it into an hour and a half. They had to get all these shots in a very chaotic scene, a lot of explosions and gunfire and all the rest of it. So we've been filming at night, and we were working during the last day for this particular episode. Yeah, I just got off set a couple hours ago actually, it was a long shoot. : You’ve just spent a week on the set of “The Terminal List.” What’s it like to see one of your books brought to life on film?Ĭarr: “It was fantastic.

Reece fans will not be surprised by the operative’s view of Sawyer’s business dealings.Ĭhris Pratt, seen here in Zero Dark Thirty,' will portray a Navy SEAL in the television series 'The Terminal List.' (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) There’s also a brutal portrait of a villainous military contractor named Erik Sawyer, a mercenary who bears more than a passing resemblance to Blackwater/Xe founder Erik Prince. Katie Buranek, his journalist girlfriend, survives the carnage this time, but her future with Reece remains to be determined. The series’ second and third novels featured downtime in Africa (“True Believer”) and rural Russia (“Savage Son”), but “The Devil’s Hand” returns to the pedal-to-the-metal momentum that made “The Terminal List” such a revelation.Įveryone who cares about Reece continues to risk life and limb to stay close to him.

If that sounds like a ton of plot for one novel, it is. Of course, Reece is the only operative who can get to the bottom of the plot and prevent the carnage. At the same time, there’s a terrorist plot that’s using bioweapons to trick the White House into bombing American cities to prevent the spread of what looks like a disease many times more lethal than COVID-19.

The Devil's Hand by Jack Carr