Executive Power: Mitch Rapp Series Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B004W8D2QU | Format: PDF
Executive Power: Mitch Rapp Series Description
Number-one New York Times best-selling author Vince Flynn - "the best pure adrenaline-charged action writer out there today" (The Providence Journal) - puts Mitch Rapp in the crossfire as America's enemies tighten their grip.
Returning from a covert mission, Mitch Rapp was publicly hailed by the president for his role in the fight against terrorism. After years of working in the shadows, Rapp was caught in the media spotlight - and marked for death by virtually every terrorist in the world. Now a CIA advisor, Rapp is ready to battle terror far from the front lines.
But when a Navy SEAL team in the Philippines is ambushed, all evidence points to a leak within the U.S. State Department. And a greater threat lurks - a ruthless assassin working for the most powerful men in the Middle East, who are bent on igniting a world war. With the world watching, Rapp must hold back the flames of Armageddon....
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 13 hours and 3 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: April 8, 2011
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004W8D2QU
Vince Flynn's fourth installment in the Mitch Rapp series, finds the recently outed Rapp moving from CIA operative duties to that of a counter-terrorism bureaucrat. But this leopard cannot change his spots and he quickly finds himself back in the wet work business after two American diplomats' loose lips cause a SEAL hostage rescue to go deadly wrong. Rapp leads a team to avenge that loss by defeating the Philippine terrorist network that killed two SEAL team members and rescuing the American hostages. In order to successfully accomplish this mission he must keep its existence from the turncoats who once betrayed those who went before him. The coincidental plotline has forces plotting to upset the tenuous balance in the Middle East's geopolitical situation. A flamboyant Saudi Prince, who is banished from the Kingdom, elicits the help of a Palestinian assassin to murder the leaders of Islamic terrorist cells and Saudi and Palestinian Ambassadors in the hopes of dissolving US support for Israel and the eventual establishment of an official Palestinian state.
Flynn writes with his standard action-packed flair and inserts numerous details regarding the weapons, tactics, and technology being employed. The book's pace keeps your interest throughout and completes the storyline in a concise epilogue. He does a better job developing some of his characters than in pervious works and paints Prince Omar as an exquisitely conniving antagonist.
On the critical side, the tension between Rapp and the politicos is overdone and comes off as contrived. I found the two plot lines to be mini-stories and generally distinct from each other except for Rapp and the involvement of the Executive Branch of the US government.
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