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Summary: Rapp is getting tired,.
Review: "Seperation of Power" was a tough act to follow, and "Executive Power" falters under the weight. Flynn's writing is still top notch, and the plot exciting enough that I pushed through to the end and found it at least satisfying. The problem I think is that Mitch Rapp is tired, he doesn't seem to have the same pop of his earlier adventures. Since the plot concerns events and issues, and take place in the most violent part of the contemporary world, that is on everyone's mind is what saves this adventure. But I think it is now time for Flynn to retire Rapp, at least for a while, and bring us a new hero next time out.
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Summary: Page turner that disappoints only at the end
Review: A friend gave me EXECUTIVE POWER, a political thriller
by Vince Flynn . . . he said it was a real page turner, and
though I'm not a big fan of books about CIA superagents
(in this case, a character named Mitch Rapp), I decided
to give it a try. I'm glad I did, too . . . I quickly became interested in
Rapp's character, particularly because he had a human
side to him . . . he even gets married, and some of the
troubles that this causes him actually had me
chucking . . . such as: how do you explain a bullet
wound to your bum when you've supposedly been on
the sidelines directing a rescue attempt? My only disappointment was in the way that the other
major character, an unknown assassin, gets written out of the
story toward the very end . . . nice guy that I am, I won't mention
how . . . yet when that happened, I somewhat lost interest . . . the
ending also left something to be desired, in that it attempted to
bring together several subplots in too abrupt a fashion.
Rating:
Summary: Another Power Trip
Review: A stand-alone sequel to Separation of Power (October, 2001), Executive Power continues the adventures of Mitch Rapp, an American James Bond. Brought in out of the cold after his earlier adventures, Rapp is a counter-terrorism expert for the director of the CIA, with direct access to the President. He is also a newlywed, and finding it difficult to dash off for a clandestine operation without creating waves at home. His boss, whose confirmation as the first female CIA director was the primary plot line for Separation of Power, and his wife are conspiring to house train the macho field operator. The plot line in Executive Power is actually two different operations. One is the rescue of a US family taken hostage by terrorists in the Philippines, and the other is the search for a Palestinian terrorist who is trying to force the creation of a Palestinian state-by some very traditional and some very unusual means. I found the dual story line a little distracting. It is almost as if Flynn had the Philippine story in mind as a separate novel, but then decided to wrap it up into another one. The Palestinian story line is excellent, with lots of twists, turns, and betrayals.
Rating:
Summary: an enjoying read -- just don't question. :)
Review: a surprisingly good effort from flynn (All Is Relative, of course). he still can't correctly use semi-colons to save his life (to him, they're synonymous with commas), and sometimes it's painfully obvious when he rediscovers a "big" word: "vaunted" will appear twice in two pages and then never reappear in the book. but mitch rapp and irene kennedy are always good for a thriller, and add a mitch-like palestinian assassin named david/jabril, some corrupt members of the house of saud, an abu sayyaf hostage situation in the phillipines, and you've got a good yarn going. unlike flynn's previous efforts, this novel didn't flag and fold before the denouement. flynn seems to be improving??
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: After his sucess in Iraq,Mitch Rapp becomes the toast of the President. He assumes a new job as an assistant to in matters of
terrorism to CIA director Irene Kennedy. In the Philippines an
American family is seized hostage by a Philippine terrorist group. The first rescue attempt is a failure because of betrayal
from the American side. Rapp leads the second incursion into the Philippines to deal with a traitorious general. They deal with the general and locate the American hostages. On the Middle Eastern front an assassin named David helps forment hatred toward Israel by committing various terrprist acts. David is in
fact financed by a wealthy Saudi Arabian prince.Various acts of
terror in America and Israel bring the Middle to the edge of conflict.It is the job of Mitch Rapp to find the guilty parties and stop this plot. This is one of Vince Flynn's better books.It
has nonstop action and is very entertaining to read. Buy this book.
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Summary: First Time For Flynn and Rapp
Review: As a first time reader of Flynn's work I enjoyed the book. I took it on a vacation to Las Vegas and was able to read it even with all the distractions of Vegas. Mitch Rapp is an interesting character and now I want to read the previous books to see how he has developed. He looks like he may become a replacement for my favorite character, Cussler's Dirk Pitt. (Is it necessary to repeat the last letter of their last name to be a hero?) I liked the double story and although the bouncing back and forth was somewhat distracting, it was the mechanism that pulled me through the book and kept me reading much longer in the night than I should have. I think you will find it and easy and enjoyable read.
Rating:
Summary: I'm ready for the next one!
Review: As always, a great stand-alone story. However, if you're familiar with all of the Mitch Rapp stories and characters, you'll enjoy it even more. So happy to see Scott Coleman back, he's one of my favorites. I was hoping Donatella would make an appearance...maybe next time.
Wow, this story moves quickly so hang on. You are everywhere. I appreciate Mr. Flynn's 'history in a capsule' so you become familiar with his situations, i.e. the U.S. and Phillipines relations as well as the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. This is not a 5 star book compared to his others, but still a very good political thriller. I'm already looking forward to the next installment!
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Summary: His worst effort yet
Review: Being a huge Vince Flynn fan I anxiously awaited the arrival of this book. While it was another entertaining chapter of the Mitch Rapp storyline, on the whole, this novel was pretty flimsy and his worst novel yet. Neither of the two plotlines (Phillipenes, Israel/Palestine) were covered with much depth, and appear to be mashed together to form one book. This book should have been much longer if flynn wanted to cover such broad issues as the israel/palestinepalestine conflict in detail. Furthermore, the "villains" in this novel, with the exception of David, are very poorly charecterized and not particularily credible given their lack of page time. In the future, I can only hope Flynn develops his "villains" in a little more detail as opposed to just making them bad guys who need to be stopped by Rapp. Overall, I enjoyed this book, but felt it needed to be longer and much more detailed to do an adequaete job of convincing the reader that Rapp can actually do what he does. If Vince Flynn can learn form the depth and detail used by authors such as Tom Clancy then he will likely be the best author of politcal thrillers in the near future.
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Summary: Fast Pace, Bad Plot
Review: Executive Power begins with the main character, Mitch Rapp, responding to a hostage crisis in the Phillipines that is eerily similar to the one that occurred late last year. After reading through a 100 or so pages, one would assume that the rest of the novel would follow this plot. But, that is not the case.
After the hostage crisis is concluded, halfway through the novel, the book abruptly changes gears. It now is dealing with a terrorist killing assorted famous people to bring about a peace in Palestine.
While the book is a quick read, and hard to put down, it suffers from a terrible plot. Actually, Executive Power is essentially two stories, the hostage crisis and the Palestinian terrorism lumped together to form a novel. There is no clear connection between these plots either. Executive Power also has a depressingly bad ending, almost all loose ends are not wrapped up, and it is also confusing. Executive Power succeeds as a thriller/suspense book but fails miserably as a novel. Definitely not one of Vince Flynn's best, look to The Third Option and Term Limits instead.
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Summary: political thriller at its best
Review: Following his last assignment, preventing Saddam Hussein from obtaining nuclear weapons, CIA field agent Mitch Rapp receives public acknowledgment by the president in response to the latest Congressional leak to the media. Though the praise is of the highest quality, singled out as the most important person in the fight to counter terrorism, the President might as well have placed a bulls-eye on Rapp's chest and that of his loved ones. The spotlight makes the former covert operator an ideal international target for eradication by terrorists as the symbol he has become. As special advisor on counterterrorism to CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy, Rapp uncomfortably sits in an office. However, everything changes when radical Islamic terrorists ambush Navy SEALS on a top-secret rescue mission in the Philippines. The leak had to be in either the State Department or the Philippine diplomatic corps, but nobody knows for sure. However, worse yet is that someone is trying to cause a Jihad on a scale never before seen and that unknown invisible individual is close to achieving the goal with only a too visible Rapp in the way. This reviewer plans to obtain previous tales of Vince Flynn because EXECUTIVE POWER is political thriller at its best and it is clear that this author has much writing talent. The story line is non stop action and Mitch is a great protagonist as he struggles with a fame that he does not want at the cost of his first love field work. No bums rap: this winner may prove to be the political thriller of the year. Harriet Klausner
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