Hired to Kill
Nathan McBride • Book 7
by Andrew Peterson
Why You'll Love This
When the terrorist attacks are personal — targeting Nathan McBride's own family — the mission stops being a job and starts being a reckoning.
- Great if you want: high-stakes military thriller with personal vengeance driving the plot
- The experience: relentless pacing — action sequences hit hard and don't let up
- The writing: Peterson writes tactical detail with authenticity that feels lived-in, not researched
- Skip if: you haven't read earlier books — character bonds carry serious weight here
About This Book
When terror attacks hit San Diego and Washington, D.C. on the same day, most people see a national tragedy. Nathan McBride sees something personal—because the targets weren't random. Someone has come for his family. What follows pulls Nathan into a conspiracy stretching from a compromised North Korean bioweapons facility to an ISIS training camp across the Mexican border, all building toward an attack that would dwarf anything the country has seen before. The stakes here are both enormous and intimate, and that combination—civilization-level threat fused with one man's need to protect the people he loves—is exactly what keeps the pages turning.
Peterson writes action the way it actually feels: fast, costly, and never clean. By book seven, Nathan McBride is a fully realized character with history and weight, which means readers who've followed the series will find deeper resonance, but newcomers will still find the tension immediately gripping. The plot architecture is tight, moving between geopolitical maneuvering and ground-level combat without losing momentum in either direction. Peterson trusts his readers to keep up, and that trust makes the reading experience feel genuinely collaborative rather than hand-held.
