Executive Power

Rating:
Summary: Unnecessary Fluff
Review: The story started out so, so promising. Unfortunately, it got lost somewhere along the way. Almost like it was exposition rather than serious story telling. More accurately, the book's two separate stories that were forcefully melded into each other for no rhyme or reason other than to add pages. To add insult to injury, neither story is very good standing alone.

Take the Abu Sayyaf angle.

Q: How does the Abu Sayyaf story relate to Omar and David's?

A: It doesn't, other than that Mitch Rapp stars in both, but that's a flimsy reason if you ask me.

Worse, the only character with any real depth or complexity, David, dies at the end.

Seems to me Flynn's going the way of Mr. Clancy, from very good to extremely mediocre.


Rating:
Summary: The Weakest of his 6 books, but still a fine read!
Review: I have all of Flynn's books, and this one is the weakest of them. Flynn is usually heavy detail and does a great job plugging in all the gaps in the sub-plots, but this book falls a bit short of the previous standards in his stories. I'm not beating up on him, because he is my favorite writer(i've read all his books 3 times.) This story brings back the man that most of us guys would like to be like...Mitch Rapp. He is trying to figure out why the Isralies have apparently assasinated a couple of key Palestinian leaders, along with a Prince from Saudi. The story flows very well, but unlike in previous Flynn novels, it comes up a little short. I wonder if Flynn rushed to meet a deadline, but I might be way off....who knows? So why should you buy this book, after my negative critism of it? While it falls short of other Flynn books, it is still a very enjoyable and easy read. The story is gripping, and both men and women alike are drawn to the strength of Rapp's character. Men wanna be like him, and women wished their man was more like him. Its a very SOLID story, just the weakest of all Flynn's fine works.


Rating:
Summary: A non-stop thriller
Review: This is my second Vince Flynn book and I seem to be reading them in reverse order. However two I've read are thrilling, action filled stories that could have come right out of today's headlines. We are treated to the machinations of high level Washington politics, down and dirty intelligence activities and some hard core direct military action. This is one of the best action/thriller series around today, much better than some of the more famous established writers of the genre. Mitch Rapp is almost a 21st century James Bond, but without the cartoonish escapades of 007. Flynn touches on many issues germaine to the real world of terrorism and world politics. Highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: Dissapointed
Review: The thumbs up from Dan Brown on the front cover enticed me to buy this book in addition to the fact that the book was considered to be a post 9-11 thriller. I almost expected the book to flow like the 24 Hours TV Series, but instead it turned out to be a jumble of different sub-plots that really didn't flow well at all. Some of the characters / sub-plots (Phillippines, the love story) didn't come together quite well. The "hero" was a little too macho and not too likeable. It seemed like the author ran out of steam toward the end.

My fav character: Prince Omar!

Mark