#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VINCE FLYNN RETURNS WITH HIS MOST EXHILARATING POLITICAL THRILLER TO DATE, A PULSE-POUNDING TALE OF ESPIONAGE, COVERT INTELLIGENCE, AND COUNTERTERRORISM.
The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National Counterterrorism Center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his trusted team member, Mike Nash. Now that the initial shock of the catastrophe is over, key Washington officials are up in arms over whether to make friends or foes of the agents who stepped between the enemy's bullets and countless American lives regardless of the legal consequences. Not for the first time, Rapp finds himself in the frustrating position of having to illustrate the realities of national security to politicians whose view from the sidelines is inevitably obstructed. Meanwhile, three of the al Qaeda terrorists are still at large, and Rapp has been unofficially ordered to find them by any means necessary. No one knows the personal, physical, and emotional sacrifices required of the job better than Rapp. When he sees Nash cracking under the pressure of the mission and the memories of the horrors he witnessed during the terrorist attack, he makes a call he hopes will save his friend, assuage the naysayers on Capitol Hill, and get him one step closer to the enemy before it's too late. Once again, Rapp proves himself to be a hero unafraid "to walk the fine line between the moral high ground and violence" (The Salt Lake Tribune) for our country's safety, for the sake of freedom, for the pursuit of honor. |
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 Action Thriller |
| Review Date: August 29, 2010 |
| Reviewer: salty, |
| Flynn is a great author, who keeps you engaged right up to the end, when the pace of action and suspense keeps you on the edge of your seat. I highly recommend it. |
Good story
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| Review Date: August 20, 2010 |
| Reviewer: William P. Davis, Toledo, Ohio |
| This is a good story if you don't mind gratuitous violence and superflous foul language. If you have sensibilities in those areas, save your money. Flynn writes in a simple language that is refreshing after reading over-complicated techno-thrillers. The level of violence and revenge, however, signal a disturbed world-view. |
Better Buy Elsewhere
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| Review Date: August 19, 2010 |
| Reviewer: BabyBoomer46, Tx |
| I purchased this book for my Kindle about 6 months ago for $9.99. Now the price is 50% higher. Unbelievable!!! Makes no sense why the publisher would increase the price when hardcovers and paperback are readily available for under $10. I've obtained several recent hardcover releases on-line all in "like new condition" for under $10 including shipping. I have no reservations reverting back to "used" hardcover and paperbacks even though I love my Kindle. One advantage they have is some value (used book stores, charitable donations etc). If Amazon's prices on books that I want are under $10 then I will purchase, otherwise I will shop elsewhere. |
Boring. Stupid.
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| Review Date: August 18, 2010 |
| Reviewer: diogenes lamp, Glenwood Springs, Colorado United States |
Oh my. Mitch Rapp has gone through a reinvention of sorts. He has traveled the exact path that Sylvester Stallone did between "First Blood" and "Rambo". Which is to say that the Mitch Rapp of this book is a caricature of the Rapp I used to read. A trash-talking, platitude-spouting joke. Flynn has become so lazy and so full of himself that he doesn't even bother to invent a new plot. He simply prolongs, for hundreds of pages, the story of the previous novel. I kid you not. The same antagonists as the last novel, in all their mediocrity and lack of charisma, dusted off for a second go. For the first 300 pages of the book, Rapp LITERALLY has no real bad guys to fight. He seems to implode, and goes to war with such dangerous foes as a lawyer, a bouncer at a night club, a whiny friend. These are the "heroic" exploits he is reduced to. We are treated to the great Mitch Rapp slapping and cuffing and demoralizing the most milktoast crop of "traitors" ever assembled, while chest-thumping like a jail house punk. And why, you ask, is there no plot? So that Flynn can turn the novel into a lengthy screed in which we are honored to hear his cornball and feckless arguments for the utopian merits of a police state. Flynn absolutely loathes habeus corpus, and is actually--no kidding--naive enough to think we would all be better off if the executive branch could also take over the legislative and judicial. Putin would love Flynn.
I can't tell you how fatuous the folksy-tough-guy logic Flynn places in Rapp's mouth actually is. It is, in a word, embarrassing. There is a debate between a senator and Rapp about the merits of torture and murder, and Flynn turns it into an invective on the evils of abortion. This type of logic is convincing to Flynn's Rapp, probably because it has all the logical consistency and moral authority of an episode of the Rush "Pills" Limbaugh show, but without the humor.
This brings up another problem with the work. It is joyless. Self-important tomes generally are. The end-game is uninventive and boring, as formulaic as an episode of Scooby Doo. Skip this book. Mr. Flynn would do well to follow the advice of another voice of the enlightened right: "Shut up and sing." Or in your case, Mr. Flynn, "shut up and write." Leave the hand-wringing rants to the philosophers at the VFW lodge. I'm begging you. |
Still Good Stuff
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| Review Date: July 31, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Straightforward, |
| I have read many Vince Flynn books and they are somewhat predictable. Nevertheless, I found it hard to put down at times. As usual the book was very readable and entertaining. |
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