Pursuit of Honor(Mitch Rapp, No. 10)
by Vince Flynn
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Author: Vince FlynnEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-10-13
ISBN: 1416595163
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Atria Books
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Book Review: Hopefully we have real-life Mitch Rapps protecting the nation
Summary: 5 Stars
It ought to be a national holiday when a new Mitch Rapp thriller hits the streets. I suspect there are thousands of people like me who basically set everything else aside to devour the latest adventures of CIA agent Mitch Rapp. Rapp works in the shadows, mostly off the books, doing what has to be done to combat terrorists and other enemies of the United States, foreign and domestic. He knows no rules, observes no limits. Everything he does is to protect the United States.
Hopefully we have a few Mitch Rapps serving the nation.
This is above all a political thriller. Vince Flynn makes no attempt to disguise his politics or his beliefs. Unlike other authors, he does not rely upon sly innuendo, but rather straightforward disdain for anyone who comforts the enemies of the United States. In this novel, he exposes Senators Barbara Boxer and Dick Durbin as the hypocrites they are.
The story is a continuation of his last thriller, Extreme Measures, where terrorists murdered almost 200 innocents on the streets of Washington DC and even more when they raid a federal facility. Three terrorists are known to have escaped. The setting of "Pursuit Of Honor" begins a week after these events.
For the past couple of years (and novels) Rapp and his boss CIA Director Irene Kennedy have been the target of left-wing politicians, lawyers, interest groups and so-called journalists who are trying to strip the United States of its defenses. Rapp is on the trail of a traitor in the CIA who has to be neutralized before he can shift his attentions fully to the pursuit of the fugitive terrorists.
Mitch Rapp does not shrink from extreme measures and rather than apologize for them, Rapp is an effective defender of their application. This time, however, when the fate of the CIA traitor is being determined, Rapp's pursuit of swift justice creates a conflict with his partner, Mike Nash. Nash is married, has a loving wife and four children. Rapp lost the first love of his life in the terrorist bombing of Pam Am Flight 103 and the second to a terrorist assassination. The interplay between Rapp, Nash and Director Kennedy is well-done and you really have to wonder how those people in the federal government who actually face the violent people threatening the nation deal with the pressures of their jobs and maintaining a semblance of family life.
The terrorists have holed up. Flynn imbues each of the terrorists with their own personality. Karim, the nominal leader, is a murderous religious fanatic. Ahmed is a docile, faithful, deadly soldier. Hakim, a friend of Karim's since childhood, is questioning the religious dogma he has been raised to follow since his youth.
Hakim, the planner for the group, has found a place for them to lie low - but Karim's deadly impulsiveness puts them on the run again and strains the relationship between Karim and Hakim.
Rapp, in the meantime, calls in global resources to help in the search for both the identities of the terrorists and hints of where they may be.
Vince Flynn is a master of plotting. I finished this book in less than a day because Flynn makes it impossible to put it down for any length of time. There are no boring sections, no fluff, no fill. It is all action, page after page. Mitch Rapp is one of the most credible characters in modern popular fiction. This is the 11th Mitch Rapp book and it is just as fresh and inventive as the first. Many thriller writers seem to grow tired of their own inventions and end up destroying their characters. Barry Eisner did this with his nihilist Japanese/American contract assassin whom he wussified to the point where one expected him to be singing "Kumbayah". Two books back, Lee Child turned the stolid and admirable Jack Reacher into someone you would expect to see wearing a garland of flowers at a peace rally. (Fortunately, Child recovered for the most part in his last book.) Vince Flynn marches on keeping Mitch Rapp a strong, uncompromising character who doesn't change much: his bedrock character is frankly comforting.
As always, Flynn has several plotlines going at once, an accurate reflection of the real world. He does resort to convenient devices on occasions, such as the almost mandatory "computer genius". Those of us who work in the field can only shake their heads in disbelief as these wizards work their impossible wonders - but thriller writers need them badly.
Mitch Rapp is relentless in tracking down the terrorists whose sudden and entirely unexpected change in direction rachets up the tension in the second-half of the book. As the clock ticks down, Rapp has to engage with a probable operative of the Russian mafia, a high official in another country, two traitorous CIA employees, a truly nasty Senator who is clearly modeled upon Barbara "Call me Senator, General" Boxer, an oily Washington fixer, a newly elected President who campaigned on a theme that terrorism wasn't really a threat and others. Flynn never lets up on his theme that terrorists are not the nation's only enemies: there are plenty of people who would use our political and judicial systems to destroy the United States as well.
The ending is well crafted and, for the most part, suspenseful. Overall, "Pursuit Of Honor" is a total page turner and a great combination of politics and violence. Mitch Rapp is the kind of unrestrainable hero you hope actually somehow exists and is protecting the nation from its enemies, foreign and domestic.
Jerry
Summary of Pursuit of Honor(Mitch Rapp, No. 10)
#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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