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Pursuit of Honor: A Novel Review

I'm a Major Vince Flynn fan. In fact, I've been thinking about a promotion from Major to Lt. Colonel, but I digress.

Mr. Flynn, in the unlikely event you read this, please understand that I am on your side. HOWEVER, I believe you need to develop an "alternative protagonist" for some of your future novels. Consider what other incredibly succesful and creative authors have done . . . i.e., Think of the alternative protagonists developed by Kellerman, Coonts, and Sandford, who are Milo Sturgis, Tommy Carmellini, and Virgil Flowers, respectively. They rock! (They sell books, too!)

Mr. Flynn, I always enjoy seeing you on the Bill O'Reilly and Glen Beck shows, and other appearances. But I believe the time is ripe for an a new hero we can And be afraid of and for.

Time to refresh the series, and believe me, I have all of your books. Craft a character differing from Mitch, and create a novel around him or her.

Pursuit of Honor: A Novel Overview

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VINCE FLYNN’S MOST EXHILARATING

POLITICAL THRILLER

When Washington, D.C.’s National Counterterrorism Center is struck by a series of devastating explosions, the results are catastrophic—185 killed, including public officials and CIA employees. Such an act of extreme violence calls for extreme measures—and elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, joining forces with trusted team member Mike Nash, finds himself in the frustrating position of having to illustrate the realities of national security to government officials up in arms over the agents who rushed in to save countless American lives. Meanwhile, with three al Qaeda terrorists still at large and Nash traumatized by the horrors he witnessed during the attack, Rapp must help his friend while threading his way through the naysayers on Capitol Hill—and silently, swiftly, do what he must for the sake of his country and the pursuit of honor.

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Customer Reviews

Good story - William P. Davis - Toledo, Ohio
This is a good story if you don't mind gratuitous violence and superflous foul language. If you have sensibilities in those areas, save your money. Flynn writes in a simple language that is refreshing after reading over-complicated techno-thrillers. The level of violence and revenge, however, signal a disturbed world-view.

Better Buy Elsewhere - BabyBoomer46 - Tx
I purchased this book for my Kindle about 6 months ago for .99. Now the price is 50% higher. Unbelievable!!! Makes no sense why the publisher would increase the price when hardcovers and paperback are readily available for under . I've obtained several recent hardcover releases on-line all in "like new condition" for under including shipping. I have no reservations reverting back to "used" hardcover and paperbacks even though I love my Kindle. One advantage they have is some value (used book stores, charitable donations etc). If Amazon's prices on books that I want are under then I will purchase, otherwise I will shop elsewhere.

Boring. Stupid. - diogenes lamp - Glenwood Springs, Colorado United States
Oh my. Mitch Rapp has gone through a reinvention of sorts. He has traveled the exact path that Sylvester Stallone did between "First Blood" and "Rambo". Which is to say that the Mitch Rapp of this book is a caricature of the Rapp I used to read. A trash-talking, platitude-spouting joke. Flynn has become so lazy and so full of himself that he doesn't even bother to invent a new plot. He simply prolongs, for hundreds of pages, the story of the previous novel. I kid you not. The same antagonists as the last novel, in all their mediocrity and lack of charisma, dusted off for a second go. For the first 300 pages of the book, Rapp LITERALLY has no real bad guys to fight. He seems to implode, and goes to war with such dangerous foes as a lawyer, a bouncer at a night club, a whiny friend. These are the "heroic" exploits he is reduced to. We are treated to the great Mitch Rapp slapping and cuffing and demoralizing the most milktoast crop of "traitors" ever assembled, while chest-thumping like a jail house punk. And why, you ask, is there no plot? So that Flynn can turn the novel into a lengthy screed in which we are honored to hear his cornball and feckless arguments for the utopian merits of a police state. Flynn absolutely loathes habeus corpus, and is actually--no kidding--naive enough to think we would all be better off if the executive branch could also take over the legislative and judicial. Putin would love Flynn.

I can't tell you how fatuous the folksy-tough-guy logic Flynn places in Rapp's mouth actually is. It is, in a word, embarrassing. There is a debate between a senator and Rapp about the merits of torture and murder, and Flynn turns it into an invective on the evils of abortion. This type of logic is convincing to Flynn's Rapp, probably because it has all the logical consistency and moral authority of an episode of the Rush "Pills" Limbaugh show, but without the humor.

This brings up another problem with the work. It is joyless. Self-important tomes generally are. The end-game is uninventive and boring, as formulaic as an episode of Scooby Doo. Skip this book. Mr. Flynn would do well to follow the advice of another voice of the enlightened right: "Shut up and sing." Or in your case, Mr. Flynn, "shut up and write." Leave the hand-wringing rants to the philosophers at the VFW lodge. I'm begging you.

Still Good Stuff - Straightforward -
I have read many Vince Flynn books and they are somewhat predictable. Nevertheless, I found it hard to put down at times. As usual the book was very readable and entertaining.

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