false 184655 17 From Publishers Weekly In this long political thriller staged almost entirely around a hostage standoff, Flynn makes maximum use of his White House setting, and mixes in a spicy broth of brutal terrorists, heroic commandos and enough secret agent hijinks to keep the confrontation bubbling until its flag-raising end. The villains are led by Rafique Aziz, a notorious Arab terrorist whose band of thugs takes over the White House by finding a weak point in American politics: they pose as wealthy campaign contributors and are welcomed through the front door. President Robert Hayes manages to escape to his bunker moments before the bloodbath, but religious zealot Aziz takes almost 100 hostages, seals off the White House and begins making demands, of which large sums of cash are just the beginning. With the president incommunicado and weak-willed yet power hungry Vice President Sherman Baxter in charge, the Pentagon and the CIA resort to their secret weapon: commando extraordinaire Mitch Rapp. After sneaking into the bowels of the Executive Mansion through an air duct, Rapp steadily disrupts the terrorists' well-laid plans. He finally calls in reinforcements when Aziz begins drilling into the president's bunker. It's a long haul to the finish, but Flynn (Term Limits) compensates for some stereotyping by creating dynamic tension between the main players, especially between military leaders and politicians, and between Rapp and Aziz. His description of the White House is impressive; readers will wonder if the secret passageways, hidden rooms and clever deception devices that help load this story with seemingly endless intrigue, really exist. Agent, Sloan Harris. 15-city author tour. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 2127844 1999 Transfer Of Power (Mitch Rapp, #1) total:1702|5:664|4:709|3:292|2:34|1:3| 1702 7103 2152 191 5 1 false false Thu Feb 26 18:26:39 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 14:12:18 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 18:26:39 -0800 2009 5 1 false false Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 18 14:25:13 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 14:25:53 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 02 04:38:47 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 04:39:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 11:45:44 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 11:49:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 13:23:59 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 05:27:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Apr 15 07:27:28 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 07:28:19 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Fri Dec 21 19:52:41 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 19:57:48 -0800 2007
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