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The third option / Vince Flynn.
CIA counterterrorism expert Mitch Rapp is sent on a mission to stop a German industrialist selling sensitive materials to a terrorist sponsor, unaware that he is being set up by forces in Washington who will do anything to see him fail.
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- ISBN: 9781982121068
- ISBN: 1982121068
- Physical Description: 485 pages ; 19 cm
- Publisher: New York : Pocket Books, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2000.
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| Subject: | United States. Central Intelligence Agency > Fiction. Rapp, Mitch (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Conspiracies > Fiction. Political fiction. Washington (D.C.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Suspense fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Granisle Public Library | Apb FLY (Text) | 35190000220101 | Adult Paperback Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Monthly Selections - #1 November 2000
Flynn hits his stride in this thriller about high-end Washington politics, the second featuring underground counterterrorist Mitch Rapp. This time Rapp is unofficially hired by the CIA to assassinate a German businessman who has been secretly chummy with Saddam Hussein. Rapp does his job, but the couple hired to help him try to sabotage him instead. Rapp must track down the rogue couple and figure out whom they're working for if he is to survive. Flynn's high-energy prose sets a terrific pace, and he generates plenty of suspense. Unfortunately, he doesn't deliver the goods in the end. The conclusion, designed more to set up the next installment in the series than to wrap up this one, will leave readers distinctly unsatisfied. On the other hand, they will be clamoring for more. Flynn has an exciting, Ludlum-like series going here, but he needs to learn how to hit a tonic chord on the last page. --Mary Frances Wilkens Copyright 2000 Booklist Reviews - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2000 October #1
A plodding thriller in which all the good hit men shoot all the bad hit men, but everything else misfires.Mitch Rapp, specialist in counterterrorism, "the most talented and courageous" man the CIA Director has ever seen, is backâdoing what his limitless talent and lion-like courage enables him to do best: assassinate people. This time out the target is that unprincipled German industrialist Count Heinrich Hagenmiller, a snake in the grass who's been selling masses of nuclear stuff to the even better-known reprobate Saddam Hussein. Can't have that kind of antisocial behavior, acting CIA Director Irene Kennedy sniffs, and dispatches her most adroit killer to the Count's lush, ill-gotten estate to solve the problem. Mitch does so, of course, but in the process of subtracting the Count he almost gets eliminated himself by Ruth and Jim Jensen, members of Mitch's killing team who've planned a special surprise for their boss. Luckily, Mitch is wearing his Kevlar liner, and luckily, rogue hit people are dumb enough to pump their 9-mm parabellum rounds into his chest, not his invitingly un-armored head. But what's going on here? Why would the Jensens, virtual strangers to Mitch, take so dim a view of him? Before he can ask, they're deadârubbed out by still another team of rogue hit men before still another team of good hit men can latch on to them. Investigating, Mitch finds conspiracy beneath conspiracyâinternecine warfare involving congressmen, senators, the secretary of state, the president, a couple of alphabet agencies, and enough hair-trigger hit men to populate a Mafia convention. Could all the resultant slaughter just be a political ploy aimed at undercutting President Hayes's hefty approval rating? Hard to believe.Weak writing, implausible characters, threadbare plotting. It's Flynn's third time out (Transfer of Power, 1999, etc.), but he still hasn't found the charm. Copyright 2000 Kirkus Reviews - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2000 October #2
Flynn's latest thriller about the Iraqi quest for nuclear weapons is an old-school spy story, something from the Seventies, updated with heavy helpings of international intrigue and domestic politicking and betrayal. Counterterrorism expert Mitch Rapp must complete his mission (eliminating a European arms dealer with ties to Saddam), save the woman he loves, and ferret out those who would betray their country. These are people in high places trying to discredit the CIA in order to further their own political futures, and they make the mistake of having Rapp for an enemy and eventually pay the price. Flynn relies too much on a heavy-handed narrative style, and many of his characters are cardboard cutouts. He has toned down the right-wing rhetoric a bit from his earlier works (Term Limits, LJ 10/1/98), but it is still made very clear where on the political spectrum the author's and the main character's sympathies lie. Overall, the book is clunky but fun, and fans of Kyle Mills as well as Ludlum and Clancy will want to check it out. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 7/00.] Patrick Wall, University City P.L., MO Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2000 October #3
A CIA counterterrorist gets caught in the middle of a deadly Beltway power play in Flynn's (Balance of Power) latest political thriller. Long on one-dimensional characters, action scenes and espionage details, it falls short on comprehensible plotting. Battle-scarred protagonist Mitch Rapp returns to take on a sensitive new assignment in Europe, only to have things go awry when his two CIA colleagues turn on him following the assassination of a wealthy German count who has been selling arms to Saddam Hussein. Rapp survives their double-dealing, but he is forced to go underground to decipher the labyrinthine chain of political connections and to learn who was trying to have him killed. Back in Washington, a similar game of spy-versus-spy is being conducted by the elderly, dying director of the CIA and his chosen successor. Rapp eventually surfaces to help his bosses, but things get personal for the ace counterterrorist when Rapp's bride-to-be is kidnapped as part of the ongoing political maneuvers. Flynn sweats the small stuff to bring his conspiracy to life, but he also introduces enough secondary characters to populate two novels, and he frequently stalls the narrative momentum by providing an overwhelming level of detail regarding various high-tech gadgets and espionage operations. The biggest disappointment, though, comes at the end, when the book is exposed as a shameless setup for a sequel. Flynn is a popular writer, but his third thriller won't do much to enhance his critical reputation or his sales. 9-city author tour. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
