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Summary: 24 on steroids
Review: I read half of the book in one day and could not put it down. If you like the show 24, this book is like 24 on steroids. Jack Bower times 10, and action packed on each page!
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Summary: Great story, Fast Paced
Review: I started reading books last year and I got hooked reading Memorial Day. Fast paced and a great plot. Mitch Rapp character goes back about four books and his stories are great. I recommend the whole Vince Flynn series and I hope he continues wiritng with Mitch Rapp in mind.
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Summary: The Best of Mitch Rapp So Far
Review: I was amazed at the sycronicity of this book with the current headlines coming out of Iraq. After seeing the beheading of a civilian American citizen, I wish there was a Mitch Rapp to go over and deal with this situation. I found this book to be a very cathartic release for the frustration I have been feeling. The plot was so real that I couldn't put it down. Vince, Great Job!!
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Summary: Doesn't Disappoint
Review: I've read all of Vince Flynn's novels and this latest one certainly uses current events for his greatest suspense ride yet.
I agree with another reviewer in that the editing is very poor in this edition.
I am slightly disappointed with the almost complete absence of Anna Reilly but understand that the intensity of this story leaves the reader with little time to ponder Mitch and Anna's relationship as in the prior works. Also, it would be tiresome to hear the endless quarrelling between them regarding Mitch's job-related activities.
Although not required, I suggest that you read the prior Flynn books to fully appreciate the characters especially the development of CIA Director Irene Kennedy. Her predecessor/mentor (Thomas Stansfield) was an excellent character and understanding their relationship will give you depth to the job they face.
Without repeating the plotline, essentially this is a continuation of the Mitch Rapp story begun in Flynn's second novel, "Transfer of Power". Rapp almost singlehandedly has to deal with global terrorism on the most urgent of deadlines to try and thwart another deadly attack on U.S. soil.
The use of torture tactics to extract information from the terrorists will certainly raise a few eyebrows but, as other reviewers have noted, this is done in a very direct yet welcome manner from the perspective of the foes of radical Islamic terrorists. Flynn certainly expresses many of our thoughts using Rapp as the anti-PC rogue CIA operative.
Even though this is fiction, you are left to ponder the plausibility of the terrorist's actions and the surprising ease with which they are carried out.
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Summary: Fans of the series will love this
Review: If you're not familiar with the Mitch Rapp series, please click on my username and read my review on "The Third Option." You can read "Memorial Day" and enjoy it without having read its predecessors, but a fair amount of the impact is lost - you'll be wondering why the hotheaded hero is tolerated like he is. Reading the previous books will make it clear.For fans of the series, there's bad news and good news, respectively: no Donatella, but none of Mitch's whiny wife, either (she's on vacation). And without Anna, Irene Kennedy goes back to being what she's supposed to be instead of trying to play Mitch's mother. Mitch is even more of a straight shooter in this book than in ANY of the others, and if you're at all like me he'll leave you cheering as he cuts through the bureaucratic tripe that our real heroes deal with every day.
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Summary: The West Wing meets 24
Review: In this latest Mitch Rapp installment, terrorism goes nuclear and Rapp must use his skills as a CIA operative to attempt to stop them before Washington, DC and the surrounding area is destroyed. All of this happens amongst election-year politics and Rapp's efforts at saving the world are frustrated by those who only understand political considerations, not real life terror threats.
Once again, Vince Flynn's writing packs a punch and this is another page turner. As is typical, some of the plot is a bit unbelievable, but that is part of what makes it so fun and exciting. This is a perfect read for the beach or a lazy weekend.
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Summary: Flynn's books get better and better
Review: In very few words, this book, as well as all of Vince Flynn's books, is absolutely spellbinding.
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Summary: strong action thriller
Review: Intel learns that countries harboring terrorists are transferring their stock and bonds into gold while at a top-secret installation a Pakistani terrorist is being interrogated by CIA black ops agent Mitch Rapp. Intel finds out that Al Qaeda is preparing to strike at the United States, making the World Trade Towers destruction seem like a child destroying a toy. Mitch and a group of commandos raid a small Pakistani mountain town where they find proof that Al Qaeda is getting ready to attack America. Going through the documents and the computer disks, Mitch and other operatives believe that the terrorist group is trying to smuggle a nuclear bomb into the United States. Through diligent effort and good investigative work, they are able to locate the bomb which was being shipped into the country by boat. Further Intel lead Mitch to believe that a second bomb has already been smuggled into the country and it is set to go off at the White House festivities on Memorial Day if Mitch can't locate it in time. Vince Flynn is one of the best writers of action thrillers on the world scene today. His protagonist is a true patriot, willing to get his hands dirty if it means saving innocent lives. He can't stand or deal with the politics that get in the way of catching terrorists and believes the legal rights belonging to ordinary people should be suspended for active terrorists. Readers won't know until the last paragraph if the hero finds the nuclear bomb and is able to prevent it from going off. MEMORIAL DAY is more frightening than a horror tale because the premise of the story is all too plausible. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Realistic Thriller about How to Stop Terrorists
Review: Many thrillers are so abstracted from reality that they are describing a world that could never exist. The best thrillers take our natural paranoia and build from there to create a living nightmare that thrills and chills us.
Memorial Day is a rewarding addition to the gradually developing subgenre of the anti-WMD terrorist thriller. Naturally, we all fear terrorists killing millions with WMD. How might they go about it? How might we stop them? Memorial Day provides many rewarding answers to the former and fewer realistic answers to the latter.
Mitch Rapp is a one-man wrecking crew who knows no limits to his ability to protect the United States. He's very much in the vein of an American James Bond except that he is a family man with no obvious vices. In that sense, he's more like Superman without the super powers.
As the book opens, the CIA observes unusual activities and levels of terrorist "chat" which makes it look like an attack may be coming soon. Mitch Rapp learns that a number of al-Qaeda leaders are together in a Pakistani village and organizes a "black" raid on the village. That raid allows him to interrogate several prisoners and he learns that the U.S. is at risk in the near-term. Fortunately, the raid also provides documents that help pinpoint the sources of the risk and counter-terrorist efforts begin quickly and smoothly. But is there enough time?
The main false note in the story is that Mitch Rapp knowingly ignores legal and ethical limits on what the U.S. can do whenever he feels the need to accelerate responses. In the process, the book condones murder, torture and unlimited violence as long as it helps us defend ourselves. At a time when many are rethinking how far we should go in interrogating prisoners, this book suggests no limits. That point is a gratuitous one that was not required for the story to develop in an exciting and realistic way.
Many will be cheered, though, by the attacks in the book on those who pursue antiterrorism primarily for political gain. There's been too much of that going on.
The action parts of the story are the best. So if you like to read about raids and commando actions, you will enjoy this book very much.
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Summary: Flynn just keeps getting better!
Review: Mr. Flynn has done it again, with another great Mitch Rapp story! Flynn has the ability to write fiction that reads like an unfoldiong news story. In fact it is creepy because you can imagine this really happening! The descriptions of torture and abuse depicted in the book, are especially timely (and disturbing). The author's Style has matured over the serries and just keeps getting better. I would say that the Author now must be considered the equal of Clancy, Brown, Grisham etal. I also agree with an earlier reviewer about "A Tourist in the Yucatan" Its a good thriller!
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