Protect and Defend: A Thriller
Vince Flynn's #1 New York Times bestseller sends counterterrorist agent Mitch Rapp on a collision course with America's most feared enemy. No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its neighboring enemy, Israel brings down Iran's billion-dollar nuclear program in an...
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Vince Flynn's #1 New York Times bestseller sends counterterrorist agent Mitch Rapp on a collision course with America's most feared enemy. No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its neighboring enemy, Israel brings down Iran's billion-dollar nuclear program in an ingeniously conceived operation. The attack leaves a radioactive tomb and environmental disaster in its wake, and has Iranian president Amatullah calling for blood -- American blood. Seeing opportunity where others fear reprisals, Mitch Rapp devises a brilliant plan to humiliate Iran's government and push the nation to the brink of revolution. But when a back-channel meeting between CIA director Irene Kennedy and her Iranian counterpart goes disastrously wrong, Rapp is locked in a showdown with a Hezbollah mastermind in league with Amatullah -- and he is given twenty-four hours to do whatever it takes to stop unthinkable catastrophe.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781439180822 (1439180822)
Publish date: September 15th 2009
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Mystery,
War,
Politics,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Action,
Suspense,
Terrorism
Series: Mitch Rapp (#10)
The twist and turn is interesting. The story is about Iran and how the power struggle in Iran and the disagreement on how to deal with the US. So the Iran way forward is to kidnap a key figure of the US to hold the country foreign policy as ransom. Really stupid move. It is not the right th...
Fairly slow in the first half of the book.....I began to think this was the weakest Flynn I've read. The second half of the book was fantastic, as Rapp furiously works behind enemy lines to rescue CIA director Kennedy. Overall, a great book, better than his last novel.
To start with, I think I'm going to go back to using star (★) ratings in my reviews. I quit for a while as an experiment because I've found that star ratings are sometimes misleading. For example, there are instances where I like a book but I know it's not very good, or vice versa. But on the other ...
I love these books. Interesting that I can easily handle the violence and "good guys'" (that's us :-)torture scenes in the Mitch Rapp books, but can't with some other authors. I guess these are more like ol' fashioned TV violence; it's not visceral, at least for me.