FAIRHOPE, Ala. — Master of suspense and bestselling author Brad Thor will be at Page & Palette, 32 S. Section St. in Fairhope, on July 9, from 6-8 p.m.

He will sign copies of his latest book, “Foreign Influence.”

Navy SEAL turned covert operative Scot Harvath is called to action once again in Thor’s hottest political thriller yet.

Buried within the black ops budgets of the Department of Defense, a new spy agency has been created. Unfettered by the oversight of self-serving politicians, it reports only to a secret panel of military insiders.

Its job is to target America’s enemies — both foreign and domestic — under a charter of three simple words: Find, Fix and Finish.

Recruited as a field operative, Harvath has just returned from his first assignment abroad when a bombing in Rome kills a group of American college students. The evidence points to a dangerous colleague from Harvath’s past and a plan for further attacks on an unimaginable scale.

Harvath is tasked with leveraging his relationship to lure the man out of hiding and kill him on the spot. But what if it is the wrong man?

Simultaneously, a young woman is struck by a taxi in a hit-and-run in Chicago.

With only two intoxicated witnesses and over 5,000 cabs in the city, the Chicago Police have given up on their investigation. But when the family’s attorney digs deeper, he will uncover a shocking connection to the bombing in Rome and the perpetrators’ plans for America.

As the story rockets to its conclusion, the plots intersect in a race to prevent one of the most audacious and unthinkable acts of war in the history of mankind.

Thor, a graduate of the University of Southern California, has served as a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Analytic Red Cell Program and is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of “The Lions of Lucerne,” “Path of the Assassin,” “State of the Union,” “Blowback,” “Takedown,” “The First Commandment,” “The Last Patriot” and “The Apostle.”

Visit his website at www.bradthor.com.

For more information, call (251) 928-5295.