Monday, March 10, 2008

20. Consent to Kill


Just when I think they can't get better, they do. This was the best Vince Flynn book I've read yet. Filled with twists and turns that I never saw coming, I think I raced through these 675 pages because I just couldn't put this book down.

Here's a description:

For more than a decade and a half Mitch Rapp has been on the front line of the war on terror. He has killed with impunity, tortured to avert disaster and shown he's willing to do whatever it takes to stop the crazed fundamentalists from fulfilling their bloody wishes. His bold actions have saved the lives of thousands, but in the process his list of enemies has grown exponentially. There are even those within his own government who would like to see him eliminated. Rapp is far from naive to the fact that there are thousands if not millions of zealots who would gladly trade their life for his, but even knowing all of this Rapp could never have imagined the mayhem that is about to visit his doorstep.

Thousands of miles away the influential father of a dead terrorist demands retribution for the death of his son at the hands of the infidels. His hate-filled plea is a simple request from one father to another. He wants Mitch Rap dead, and he has found sympathetic ears. In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage there are those, even among America's allies who feel Mitch Rapp has grown too effective. They have been looking for an excuse to eliminate America's number one counterterrorism operative, and they have decided to seize the chance. The hunter is about to become the hunted.


In Consent to Kill, Vince Flynn's seventh novel, Mitch Rapp and his family are placed directly in the line of fire. A tragedy of unimaginable proportions is about to befall him, and Rapp must use all of his cunning and skill, and ultimately his ruthless determination, to stay alive and seek vengeance against those who have turned his life upside down.

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