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Title: Pursuit of Honor: A Thriller (Mitch Rapp)
ISBN: 0743596838
Author:
Vince Flynn
Publicate Date: 2009-10-13
Publish: 2009-10-13
List Price: $49.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Audio CD
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1: boring...
I can't believe I am writing this but I am done with Mitch Rapp. The books have gotten boring and I really don't care about congressional procedures or anything like that. Give me the action with a great plot and I'll be happy. Start a new character or don't write another book until a GREAT idea comes along. I loved Vince Flynn's work which I thought was better than 99% of the spy thrillers out there, but his last several books have been a cure for insomnia.
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2: Decent pacing, cardboard characters
I like suspense novels and someone gave me this for my first Vince Flynn book. Enjoyed the pace, but unfortunately, it was all so predictable and the characters are so black and white. The evil guys are all egomaniacs, cowardly, craven, psychopaths. Politicians are spineless, gutless and ignorant. (Ok, I agree with some of that particular generalization). The protagonists are all misunderstood and doing just what they can to protect America, athough Nash's silly breakdown seems completely out of character. It's all stereotypes and the right leaning messages are not subtle at all. No wonder Glenn Beck loves it. There's no real surprises here. Bad guys eventually meet their just deaths at the hands of the rogue secret agent.
Anyway, if you like the right leaning comic book style story, then I guess it's great.
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3: Big Disappointment
I've read all of the Mitch Rapp Books; sadly this will be my last.
The unnecessary injection of Right-Wing politics, including abortion issues had little or nothing to do with the story, and ruined it for me.
I'll miss Mitch, Irene and Mike, and can't help feeling that Flynn betrayed his characters and many of his faithful readers.
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4: Hey, Not Bad
Pageturners with locomotive plots and 2-D characters are not normally my thing (see my reviews for evidence), but my friend's mom gave me this Mitch Rapp book as a gift, and I burned through it with a smile. No, it will not win any literary prizes. But I liked that the author told his story his own way, seemingly without worrying about whom he might be offending. The protagonist unloads the F-word here and there, which I would imagine would offend one crowd, and then he turns around and makes an anti-abortion soapbox pitch, which I'd think would offend a different bunch. But, hey, it's a conflicted character honestly portrayed, and I appreciated that, even if the abortion thing didn't really make sense in that context to me. What I'm saying is I didn't always agree with the character, but I believed him as a character, even when I thought he was misfiring.
I'm not a political person, so I just read this as feds chasing bad guys, and although the author tries to shade most folks (one of the terrorists ends up having qualms and turning on the lead terrorist), we all know which side has to triumph in the end.
The author provides inside angles on different countries' intelligence approaches and the secret meetings they have, but one of my favorite sub-plots struck me as decidedly un-thriller-like, and that involved the protagonist's setting up another agent to become a media posterboy, effectively taking him out of the undercover spy game for his own good.
Well done, Vince Flynn. I normally don't bother to review books unless I consider them four stars or above, but despite the fact that its sentences are not remarkably written, this one was cool enough to reviewed anyway.
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5: Thanks for the memories Vince
I could not agree more with the multiple 1 star reviews. I loved this series before Vince started shilling for the Beckites. Spare me the abortion debates in a spy "thriller". If I want Fox news views I'll watch Fox news. And I don't. I'm done with Mitch and Vince.
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