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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781416505037
ISBN number: 1416505032
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 432
Printing Date: August 26, 2008
Publishing house: Pocket
Sale Popularity Level: 1357
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New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn returns with his most explosive political thriller yet. A tour de force of action-packed suspense, Protect and Defend delivers an all-too-realistic and utterly compelling vision of nations navigating the minefield of international intrigue. A true 'heavyweight in the political thriller arena' (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Vince Flynn has created a flesh-and-blood hero that readers can cheer for and a 'finger-blistering page-turner' they won't dare put down.
In Protect and Defend, the action begins in the heart of Iran, where billions of dollars are being spent on the development of a nuclear program. No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its neighboring enemy, Israel launches one of the most creative and daring espionage operations ever conceived. The attack leaves a radioactive tomb and environmental disaster in the middle of Iran's second largest city. An outraged Iranian government publicly blames both Israel and the United States for the attack and demands retribution. Privately, Iran's bombastic president wants much more. He wants America and Israel to pay for their aggression with blood.
Enter Mitch Rapp, America's top counterterrorism operative. Used to employing deception, Rapp sees an opportunity where others see only Iranian reprisals that could leave thousands of Americans dead. Rapp convinces President Josh Alexander to sign off on a risky operation that will further embarrass the Iranian government and push their country to the brink of revolution. As part of the plan, CIA director Irene Kennedy is dispatched to the region for a clandestine meeting with Azad Ashani, her Iranian counterpart.
But Rapp isn't the only one hatching plans. Iran's President Amatullah has recruited Hezbollah master terrorist Imad Mukhtar to do his dirty work. For decades Mukhtar has acted as a surrogate for Iran, blazing a trail of death and destruction across the Middle East and beyond. When Kennedy's meeting with Ashani goes disastrously wrong, Rapp and Mukhtar are set on a collision course that threatens to engulf the entire region in war. With the clock ticking, Rapp is given twenty-four hours, no questions asked, to do whatever it takes to stop Mukhtar, and avert an unthinkable catastrophe.
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I found the book captivating and look forward to reading his latest book Extreme Measures. Can't comment on the Mike Nash issues brought up by one gentleman but hope he is off base on that feeling.
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I have to agree with one of the other reviewers...way too much Mike Nash. I am a big fan of Vince Flynn and have no idea how he develops his story line but felt there was way too much of Mike Nash period.
Perhaps I am being overly critical, perhaps Mike Nash might be the new hero in future novels but I found it annoying that Flynn would spend the amount of time on a change of style.
Hopefully Flynn will cut back but not ellimate the time the reader has to spend on secondary characters such as Nash.
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I will respectfully disagree with my fellow readers. I found this book to be full of cliches and stereotypes. Dear readers, in this book Flynn switches narratives from Mitch Rapp to that of Mike Nash, another clandestine member of the terrorist task force. It's as if Fynn believes he needs to create a "new" character to populate his novels. We get a great deal of Mike and his sexual disfunction, his disfunctional marriage, his children and their feeding habits. Meanwhile, Mitch is relegated to [...] this and [...] that. Mitch still combats bureaucrats and the nasty establishment. And it is clear a sequel is in the wings. The best reading for me was the chapters with the terrorists and their planning of the attacks. Does Flynn write about a topic of grave concern-yes-does he have a main character, Rapp, that does what it takes to get info from the terrorists no matter what "that" is-yes- does Flynn portray members of Congress as publicity hounds and hacks for their parties-yes indeed. But the suspense is stopped cold when Flynn writes that Nash put a diaper across his infant son's [...] to keep him from spraying the room with pee-pee or his son gets in a fight with a friend because the friend said he'd like to F-Nash's daughter. Keep Rapp real......
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I just zipped through this excellent book - I couldn't put it down. Mitch Rapp is the new political/spy hero for the current time. Vince Flynn has set up a very believable story -- the Iranians, Iraqis, Hezbollah ALL behave in ways that seem completely plausible to me. Now, I'm not in the military, CIA, or anything like that, but I am kind of a "news junkie", and from where I sit, I was not only bought in to the plot -- I was wondering how closely the REAL near future might resemble the book!
The only part that stretches the imagination somewhat is what I like to call the StormTrooper Syndrome; making reference to Star Wars, the hero never misses, while the enemy never hits. I just can't quite believe Rapp's accuracy, not while shooting different types and sizes of guns, with either hand, while running, etc.
Please forgive me not even giving an overview intro to the plot, but I really wouldn't want to give anything away -- I think it is so lifelike that I really wouldn't want to spoil any of it for anyone.
Lastly, I have to think that if not for the anti-US, anti-military, left-liberal bias in Hollywood, that this would be in production for a major movie in the near future. My question is: who plays Rapp?
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A page-turner. I'm a fan of Vince Flynn. His books are all excellent thrillers. No time to get bored.
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