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Pursuit of Honor (Mitch Rapp #12)

by Vince Flynn (Goodreads Author)

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#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...more

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Published October 13th 2009 by Atria Books (first published September 21st 2009)

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Nov 27, 2012 Jason rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller, right-wing-douche-bag-thriller-writ

Vince Flynn is a GOP loving, Glenn Beck ball licking, Fox News hounding, ULTRA-Conservative asshole of the highest degree & yet, I love his thrillers. Flynn's character, CIA counter-terrorist agent, Mitch Rapp, makes Jack Bauer look like a girl scout. He makes Brad Thor's counter-terrorist agent, Scot Harvath, look like a cub scout. Rapp's method is brute force--politics & red tape be damned!--kill 'em all because anything un-American deserves to be taking a dirt nap. It's so laughable i...more Vince Flynn is a GOP loving, Glenn Beck ball licking, Fox News hounding, ULTRA-Conservative asshole of the highest degree & yet, I love his thrillers. Flynn's character, CIA counter-terrorist agent, Mitch Rapp, makes Jack Bauer look like a girl scout. He makes Brad Thor's counter-terrorist agent, Scot Harvath, look like a cub scout. Rapp's method is brute force--politics & red tape be damned!--kill 'em all because anything un-American deserves to be taking a dirt nap. It's so laughable it makes you want to cry. Why? Because it's obvious Flynn believes in his character--he believes the right-wing nutcase prose he writes as fiction.
& it's scary.
Flynn preaches through his character, Mitch Rapp, that torture works & abortion is murder all in the same paragraph of dialogue. He preaches that the ULTRA-conservative faction of the U.S.A. is the answer to saving the country from itself. He believes it is the liberals who are allowing the terrorists to win--no--they WANT the terrorists to win!
PURSUIT OF HONOR starts with Rapp trying to decide if he should turn in a CIA dept. mgr. for being a traitor (something he's judged entirely on his own), saving the taxpayers' money by putting a bullet in the man's head without due process or blackmailing him into into being his snitch for the rest of his life. All this after killing a butt-load of terrorists from the previous novel in the Rapp series (book #9)--he's a busy man. But now he has bigger fish to fry because 3 of the wanted terrorists from the previous novel escaped & are at large in the the heart of america & Mitch Rapp can't allow this to continue--they must DIE! Bullets fly, innocent NRA loving Americans are murdered (& must be avenged!), CIA operatives become turncoats, torture gains important intelligence, democratic senators become villains who are no match for Rapp's ideology & Muslim terrorists get sent to Allah via Mitch Rapp's gun! Does our hero ever get wounded? Hell no. Awesome.
You don't have to read the novel before this one & if you like counter terrorism/espionage/CIA thrillers, then you should give him a try. As I've said (especially about Brad Thor's thrillers), if the card carrying GOP nut jobs are good at anything, they write good thrillers & pile the action on. Lots of good action & if you're a liberal, good for laughs. I intend to read more of Flynn's novels because they are great fun.(less)

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Sep 16, 2011 Mike (the Paladin) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: action

I like Vince Flynn and this is a good read. It starts out with an American traitor who's position and actions make him an extreme liability. So, Mitch (Rapp) needs to take, certain action.

Interesting spring board from which to start a story.

Flynn has a record for telling good, well constructed, fast moving (even breakneck speed) novels. If you've followed Mitch Rapp's "career" (and the book that follows this one is actually a "prequel" giving us Mitch's start in the CIA)you know this. This is s...more

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Dec 09, 2009 Leo rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: cia

Mitch Rapp does it again. Can a terrorist cell enter the country? Yes, they did it before. In the book Mitch is investigationg a leak on information made by the Inspector General of the CIA. Naturaly he has to kidnap the guy and make it appear that he has left the country to Venezuela. Meanwhile he is investigating the assault of terrorist on the CTU (counter terrorism unit) and on a several reataurants in DC by a terrorist cell. In the attack there were terrorist captured by they were released...more

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Nov 05, 2009 Elizabeth rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn (pp. 432)

Flynn delivers his 10th installment of political thriller series based on CIA covert ops bad-ass, Mitch Rapp. Taking place on US soil, Rapp and his band of black ops team chase after a group the terrorists who attack multiple high-profile government counter terrorism targets and high profile politico hot spots all while being vilified on Capitol Hill for some of his more questionable methods by some of the more left-leaning members of the Senate. There ar...more

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Oct 19, 2009 Kelley Anne rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2009, action, audiobooks, vince-flynn

Another fantastic Vince Flynn book! This is the 10th book in the Mitch Rapp series. In this one, Rapp is focused on finding the terrorists that planned and executed the attacks from book 9. At the same time, has has to deal with a few lose strings on the home front as well.

One of the things that I love about Vince Flynn is how he will jump from Mitch's perspective to the perspective of the terrorists. It's interesting to see how he believes their minds work! There wasn't as much action in this b...more

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Oct 11, 2012 Shirl rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As always, I liked this Vince Flynn political thriller. Mitch Rapp once again is stuck in the midst of his usual balancing act between appeasing the political types bent on making his heroic efforts a crime and the very urgent and real need to eliminate terrorists and those that would help them accomplish their evil deeds.
If you've read Vince Flynn and you are a fan of this character you already know how it's going to turn out. In this case three terrorists remain alive and we get to observe th...more

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Sep 12, 2012 Brett Roller rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

My father-in-law is not much of a novel kind of guy. He goes for the non-fiction, mostly political stuff. So when I saw Pursuit of Honor, a relatively new spy novel by Vince Flynn, laying on his end table I was intrigued. I picked it up and quickly forgot the Mets and their losing ways.

The basic premise is; Mitch Rapp, a clandestine CIA operative, and Hakim, one of the terrorist who is helping his two fellow al Qaeda operatives get out of the country following the attack.

Pursuit of Honor is the...more

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May 13, 2012 Jerome rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Yet another "OK", indistinguishable movie-type thriller.
Rapp seems to implode, and goes to war with such dangerous foes as a lawyer, a bouncer at a night club, and 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.
His terrorists in this one are 1-dimensional and unbelievable; one who can mastermind a brillia...more Yet another "OK", indistinguishable movie-type thriller.
Rapp seems to implode, and goes to war with such dangerous foes as a lawyer, a bouncer at a night club, and 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.
His terrorists in this one are 1-dimensional and unbelievable; one who can mastermind a brilliant strategic strike on DC including getting in to the CIA itself, but is then too stupid to rely on his agent in the US for local info, when successfully under the radar, killing unnecessarily to draw attention to himself.

The first problem is that we already know that Mitch Rapp could pretty much kill six terrorists all on his own, so pitting him against three lesser trained terrorists with all the resources of the government behind him fails to build up much suspense. Secondly the terrorists are just trying to get away so the stakes aren't particularly high. Thirdly the terrorists are almost immediately presented as bumbling buffoons who spend all their time fighting each other so the outcome hardly seems in doubt.

Generally a character's actions are only as heroic as the magnitude of the problems that he overcomes, which is why very few heroes make their name beating up fluffy toys. Presenting Rapp's opponents as incompetents worth only mockery undermines the entire story.

The characters themselves are poorly drawn and inconsistent. For example at one point Rapp is having an argument with his subordinate Mike Nash. Nash's wife has previously told Rapp about his erectile dysfunction in the bedroom and Rapp prompty throws this accusation at Mike (then hits him for, well, no apparent reason). Think about that for a moment, his boss has just told him he knows that he's impotent and he's a CIA trained spy. It's pretty obvious where that information must have come from, Nash's wife, and this promises some interesting character conflict because that's a huge breach of confidence within the marriage. Instead Nash promptly forgets the entire episode(!) and about 36 hours later when his wife suggests that they play 'hide the pistol' he is ecstatically pleased by the prospect, apparently forgetting the fact that he can't perform in the bedroom to such an extent that his wife is complaining to his boss about it. Why does the author bring it up if he's just going to forget about it and pretend that there are no repercussions? The sad answer appears to be that he wants the audience to agree with Rapp in the argument because he is virile and disagree with Nash's position because he's impotent.

At one point Rapp captures an electronics expert that is so good, better than anyone working at the CIA, that Rapp co-opts him. However during the interrogation before this happens Rapp claims that he can find out how many copies the 'unmatched electronics expert whose help Rapp needs' made of a particular file. It isn't even consistent within the same couple of paragraphs. It is, however, sadly typical of how Flynn tries to argue his point of view (torture is good, abortion is bad) where he creates a lazy, contrived situation, has his characters state definitively that 'torture works' then shows us torture working because the interrogator magically knows whenever the victim lies then has the victim confess only the truth from then on.

The bad guys weren't really believeable. The leader was supposed to be a great tactical mind, but he can't read a simple map. The other main terrorist did all the logistics, but turned incredibly easily.
One more editing error that I didn't see pointed out here--in the middle of a conversation between Rapp and Nash, Rapp refers to him as Coleman, who wasn't even there during the conversation. I don't know if that is a Kindle specific error. I also noticed that he combined the names of the two main terrorists at least once--although they are named Karim and Hakim, he calls Karim "Kakim" once.(less)

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Aug 03, 2011 Andrea rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: action-adventure

In July, 2011 I have read (or reread) all eleven Vince Flynn novels.

In Extreme Measures a terrorist cell of Saudis and Moroccans attacked three very popular restaurants in DC at the height of lunch hour, killing hundreds of diners and then rescue workers with a second bomb in one of the restaurants. The terrorist cell then put on uniforms of a quick response team and invaded the new Counterterrorism center. Thanks to the quick response of Mitch Rapp and Mike Nash, the six invaders were killed an...more

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Feb 20, 2010 Tom rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller, vince-flynn

Vince Flynn does not disappoint. This author has a way of making even congressional hearings seem life threatening. This book was a bit different from other Mitch Rapp adventures in that we see a lot of time spent dealing with people other than terrorists.

I did find myself questioning Mitch's actions more this time. Typically I have supported how he deals with situations, but this time I think some things were borderline. Maybe it is because he kidnaps a couple US citizens on US soil. Or maybe i...more

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Nov 12, 2009 KarenC rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of 24 & Jack Bauer

Shelves: better_than_tv, spies, suspense

Continuation of Extreme Measures; the two should be read as close together as possible unless you have a really great memory. Time lapse between plots is only 6 days and there is definite continuity in characters and plot. Some situations left me wanting to return to the previous book and do a little fact checking, but it wasn't in my collection.

The much-mentioned ch. 50 is one reason I continue reading Flynn's books - through the fictional character of Rapp he does make you think about your ow

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The much-mentioned ch. 50 is one reason I continue reading Flynn's books - through the fictional character of Rapp he does make you think about your own moral convictions. Flynn again includes "propaganda" moments to support actions by the CIA & Rapp. But do those actions really get the results we read in a novel? Can they be justified? Can we really be so hypocritical and not think about the consequences of our positions?

I was glad to see Rapp take center stage again; I was a little worried it was going to become the "Mike Nash series." I hope & expect their relationship will continue so readers can have at least a sense of what is required of those who work for the CIA, FBI, and other alphabet soup agencies & military who make a commitment to protecting the rest of us. I don't think that Nash is as well-drawn as a character as Rapp, although he could be. He does provide a contrasting view of the life of an agent.

The plot moved along and kept me turning the pages. I do hope that real-life terrorists are as dumb and egotistical as these guys - it made them easier to catch. Some of their moves were even predictable.

It is a coincidence that I finished this book on Veterans' Day, but I wonder how much that has influenced my sympathies for Rapp & his colleagues, protrayed as doing a really tough job?

I dislike the concept of torture, especially when the outcomes on innocent people are considered. A recent newspaper article about a mistake made by the Canadians in identifying a man that resulted in the U.S. taking him into custody and torturing him for an extended period of time and learning nothing, since he knew nothing, makes the process questionable. Should one man have all the responsibility as arresting officer, judge, & jury? There needs to be balance between judgment and the need for immediacy when trying to get information. As always a thought-provoking read.

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Apr 23, 2011 R Bartel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: intrigue

Mitch Rapp, special agent to the CIA, has just helped protect the United States from a terrorist attack on Washington DC (his last book, Extreme Measures). Three of those terrorists, however, escaped and are now threatening the release of a dirty bomb in our nation’s capital in retribution for their comrades who were killed. Mitch must find them before they can unleash their destruction.

But Mitch’s partner seems unwilling or unable to handle the situation and Mitch fears that he will become a li...more

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Jan 11, 2010 Mike rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I bought this book on the recommendation of Glenn Beck. I thought if anyone as busy as Beck took the time to read a 400 page fiction book it must be pretty good. As it turns out, it's more than pretty good, it's excellent. I read it in two days. Flynn reminds me a bit of Tom Clancy minus all the military details.

Pursuit of Honor is the latest in Flynn's series of books featuring Mitch Rapp, a US Antiterror agent. It's hard to say too much about the plot without giving too much away, but this tim...more

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Jan 02, 2010 Chuck rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Vince Flynn's novels have to come under the category of guilty pleasures--novels whose politics I disagree with and yet whose narratives are so engaging that I read them quickly, like a starving man hungry for a stead who just got a gift certificate to the Outback Steakhouse. Kind of like Tom Clancy when he was actually writing novels and not farming out his name to other writers.

Flynn's hero is Mitch Rapp (an aside--if you want a good action hero, he or she should have one syllable first and l...more Vince Flynn's novels have to come under the category of guilty pleasures--novels whose politics I disagree with and yet whose narratives are so engaging that I read them quickly, like a starving man hungry for a stead who just got a gift certificate to the Outback Steakhouse. Kind of like Tom Clancy when he was actually writing novels and not farming out his name to other writers.

Flynn's hero is Mitch Rapp (an aside--if you want a good action hero, he or she should have one syllable first and last names). His milieu is counter terrorism; he is the one who "goes in" and mixes it up with the terrorists. His back story is that his fiancee was killed in the infamous bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbee, Scotland, and that dastardly act galvanized him, changing him from a happy go lucky college athlete to a committed agent against the enemies of the state.

In this narrative, which directly follows an attack in the States which, fortunately, has not happened, he is trying to track down the terror cell that caused the attack. His target is a man known as the Lion (not the Lion that Nelson Demille created in another, similar novel, but a totally different Lion). Lots of action and near misses. Good, fast read.

The thing that I really like about this book is it deals with the cost that fighting the war on terror extracts on men like Rapp. Unlike other novels of this type (Nick Carter tales come to mind), Mitch Rapp isn't static. He is aware of what his work costs him personally, and his team. He has come to the conclusion that he is more or less beyond saving, but his men is not. His psyche, and his morality, are played out interestingly in a series of conversations with Dr. Irene Kennedy, who is the director of the Agency Which Must Not Be Names.

The thing that I don't like about this book is that it implies that anyone who questions the use of "special measures" with detainees is unamerican, a hypocrite, stupid, or a snob. Although Flynn tries to avoid naming political parties, his liberal bashing is pretty obvious.

Although his website says that Flynn tried to get into the military but was "stymied," the fact is he's never served in the military. What you have is a guy whose only jobs have been working as an accountant and as a realtor (before he began full time writing) who writes about espionage and counterterrorism. Again, his writing is very good.

But in some way he reminds me of a generation of Politicians Who Must Not Be Named, the so called War Hawks who executed and planned a war, sending in thousands of out troops into a situation that had not been through. You had a bunch of people who have never done anything more dangerous than DUI crying havoc and letting loose the dogs of war.

This offends me for a number of reasons. First, I served six years in the US military, which is more than a thousand days more than Vince Flynn did on active duty and more than two thousand days that he spend in the service, and yet were I to publicly question the ideas Mitch Rapp spouts, I would be named called and be accused of being a leftie and in some way soft.

I am also offended because a number of my family members have served in the current conflicts overseas, and the child of one of my high school friends was killed. Many of the people who sent them over had never served in the military, and none had actually seen any combat.

So I will add that Vince Flynn writes great escapist thrillers, as Clancy did. I will continue to buy his books and will encourage others to do so. He will remain safe in the Twin Cities writing his books, while people like Josiah Vandertulip, KIA 14 Oct 2004, go over, fight, and lay down the ultimate sacrifice.

As long as he writes his books and dares not question my patriotism, I shall support his writing efforts. This does not constitute an endorsement of his views.(less)

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Nov 07, 2009 Jeffrey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Jack Bauer fans and anyone else who thinks America should stand tough

Shelves: read-in-2009, thriller

Its Vince Flynn again and Mitch Rapp. I have a love hate relationship with this author and his books, on the one hand the books are really fast read, highly entertaining and the US usually triumphs over nasty terrorists.
On the other hand, Flynn fills his novels with right wing diatribes, allows the torture of not only, terrorists but anyone -- be they American civilians or officers of the government who are dirty and uses anyone who gets in his way. Instead of arresting people and turning them o...more Its Vince Flynn again and Mitch Rapp. I have a love hate relationship with this author and his books, on the one hand the books are really fast read, highly entertaining and the US usually triumphs over nasty terrorists.
On the other hand, Flynn fills his novels with right wing diatribes, allows the torture of not only, terrorists but anyone -- be they American civilians or officers of the government who are dirty and uses anyone who gets in his way. Instead of arresting people and turning them over to the rightful authorities, Rapp and his team, kidnap, and decide who to kill. Rapp does not even talk to his boss Kennedy, who is merely a paper tiger at this point.

In this novel, Rapp and his guys start out by kidnapping and torturing the Chief Inspector of the CIA, his crime, he was using dirty methods to track the misdeeds and violations of the law that Rapp was using in America, and was thinking of writing a tell all book about Rapps deeds and other secret missions. Lock him up send him to jail is not good enough for Rapp. Better, throw him into isolation threaten to kill him etc.

Later Rapp kidnaps and tortures an ex CIA agent who was bugging for the Chief Inspector the offices of psychologists treating wives of CIA agents. Again Rapp shoots the guy to get him to talk.

In a third scene, a Senator who believes that Rapps methods are repugnant dresses him down in a Senate hearing and Rapp responds by critiquing her support for abortion rights by constantly talking about the worst episodes of late term abortion propaganda using all of the buzzwords from the anti abortion playbook.

It almost seems at some point that the whole purpose of the novel is too take pot shots -- that torture works, that American politicians who stand in the way of real men who do America's dirty work are the enemy.

Of course, if you can get past these political POV, the rest of the book about how Rapp tracks down the terrorists. led by Karim, a sick guy who constantly kills innocent Americans for no reason at all hiding in the USA is a fast paced exciting adventure.

But its not as good as others in the series because there are less and less action scenes, which is why I read Flynn, to begin with and more and more political messages about the effectiveness of torture, and the ends justify the means. I think if Flynn jettisoned that the book would be 150 pages shorter, but you have to take the good and the bad if you read his books.

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Jul 28, 2012 Scott Brazil rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have been putting off reading Flynn because I knew going into it that he and I are on different ends of the political spectrum, but I finally gave in.

Here is what I learned, and let me start with the negative: In terms of modern spy thriller authors, I would not put him in the same class as Daniel Silva, though I'm sure he'll remain more popular in this country than Silva since Mitch Rapp is an American, while Gabriel Allon is an Israeli spy. I think Silva is a much better writer in terms og...more

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Jul 15, 2011 Drick rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, murder-mystery

Mitch Rapp is a CIA operative working undercover in the anti-terrorism effort. A series of bombs and an attack on the CIA anti-terrorism offices has left many dead and Rapp is seeking the three terrorists who got away. Those three (Hakeem, Kareem & Ahmed) are holed up on a farm in Iowa when Kareem the hot-headed leader gets scared and begins a killing spree thru the Midwest as they seek to escape. Hakeem defers from his leaders na dis nearly beaten to death yet escapes. Rapp and company thru...more

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Jan 25, 2011 Jason Fleming rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller, epub-editions

This would be one of Flynn's best, except...

I first began this one in the mistaken belief that it preceded "Extreme Measures", and I was rather impressed at the leap in Flynn's jump in narrative maturity. Coming to it cold, you feel like you dropped right in the middle of a complicated story, and have to piece some things together as you go along, which was fun.

Then I looked again at the copyright date, set this one aside, and read the preceding book first before continuing.

Still, while this boo...more This would be one of Flynn's best, except...

I first began this one in the mistaken belief that it preceded "Extreme Measures", and I was rather impressed at the leap in Flynn's jump in narrative maturity. Coming to it cold, you feel like you dropped right in the middle of a complicated story, and have to piece some things together as you go along, which was fun.

Then I looked again at the copyright date, set this one aside, and read the preceding book first before continuing.

Still, while this book follows on about a week after the climax of "Extreme Measures", and continues the story threads that remained open, it DOES add some new elements that you have to work a little to figure out how they affected the previous book. (And it's not ret-conning, it was clearly intended in both books.) So while it's not so much of a "here you are in the middle of events, work it out for yourself" scenario as I first thought, it remained satisfying.

Except.

Flynn makes use of one scene to make an anti-abortion statement. To be fair, he clearly does not think that is what he is doing. Flynn's hero, Mitch Rapp, is confronted by a California senator over the morality of torture, and calls her out for hypocrisy since she supports late-term abortion. Since Rapp is (obviously) pro-torture, and since he explicitly has no opinion on abortion, he is "just pointing out the hypocrisy" of the senator. And, for Rapp the character, I can accept that.

But author Flynn clearly has an agenda. He sets up the confrontation to ensure that the reader is in great anticipation. He fails to treat the pro-choice side with any seriousness at all. The senator makes no attempt to explain that her position proceeds from the right of a woman to her own body (or if she does, it's so weak as to come off as forgettable sophistry). As far as Flynn is concerned, she is for killing innocent babies, and there can be no other way of looking at it.

I have no problem reading books from authors who hold opinions contrary to my own (as this opinion clearly is), but it leaves a bad taste when said author justifies his side with the thinnest of straw men.

It's only one scene (and a very brief moment earlier in the story). It doesn't ruin the book. But it does bring it down a notch, because it's such a false note. And an unnecessary one. If he had just dealt with the conflict of different ideas (and the premises from which they proceed) honestly, it might have even elevated the book quite a bit.

On the positive side, Flynn's portrayal of the destructiveness of narcissism is excellent. There are (at least) two full-blown narcissists in the story, and their characterizations are almost completely different. The effects of their psychology, and the actions they take, are widely divergent, but completely believable and, in one case, terrifying.

Overall, a pretty good entry in the Mitch Rapp series, which would have been one of the best if not for the author cheating in advocating one of his political opinions.(less)

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Jan 10, 2010 Michael rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: action-thriller, al-qaeda, new-york-times-best-seller, read-in-2010, reviewed, series, thriller

In "Extreme Measures," Mitch Rapp and Mike Nash stopped a group of terrorists before they could destroy the National Counterterrorism Center. 185 people were killed but it could have been much worse.

There are still three terrorists missing. These men have cut their ties to al Qaeda and are wroking as an independent cell. This makes catching them, more difficult. In addition, Mitch finds that he is having to explain his actions to politicians who don't seem to realize what is necessary to maintai...more

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Jun 12, 2012 Daniel rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I've been wanting to read a Vince Flynn novel for a long time, but I don't think I made the best choice in selecting Pursuit of Honor for my first one. Flynn's writing is excellent, and the pace is intense, but I never really got drawn in to the story. I felt this book was okay, but it did not meet my expectations. I will read another of Flynn's novels before I reach any final conclusions.

I had difficulty with several things. Rapp's tendency to take things into his own hands -- even executions...more

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Mar 11, 2013 Kelly rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, thrillers

Another great dose of testosterone ;-) And I wanted to clap many times at the tongue lashing Mitch Rapp gave to a clueless member of congress (fictional, but pretty obvious who she is meant to correspond with in real life). He also borrowed that wonderful Q&A from real life when Barbara Boxer, sorry I better say Senator Barbara Boxer, was questioning Brigadier General Michael Walsh...I'll just cut and paste from the transcript (source NPR):

"Senator BARBARA BOXER (Democrat, California): Well,...more

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Jun 30, 2012 Kerry rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Vince Flynn tells a great action story. Unfortunately, more and more, his politics are getting in the way of the story. This is a good follow up to "Extreme Measures" with the exception of the Congressional hearing scene where Mr. Flynn's politics appear in all of their didactic glory. I do not care if his politics drive the plot. Mitch Rapp uses torture, I mean agressive interrogation, and believes that it works. I can accept this as a plot item even though I abhor it in real life. But do not b...more

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Dec 26, 2009 Bob rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Mitch Rapp is caught up in another hunt after terrorists attack downtown Washington DC and a number of government workers including some from the CIA and Congress. Some of the terrorists are still at large and being hunted, meanwhile Rapp and fellow agent have to contend with certain members of Congress who want them prosecuted and fired for being too rough on a captured terrorist. They have to tread carefully with using information acquired from the terrorist and from sources in England and Fra...more

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Oct 02, 2010 Dawn rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010, adult-fiction, bookclub, waste

I didn't care for this book. It's a bookclub book for me, and I haven't read any other books of the series. Consequently, Mitch Rapp was a new character for me, and not one that I particularly liked. I though he was pretty douchey, and seemed a lot like Glen Adams: breaking rules when it benefited him and thinking he was always in the right. Maybe he is really admirable in previous books, so if you have a history with the character you can let his bad actions slide...

I haven't read many action t...more

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Nov 14, 2009 Ryan Mac rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Mitch Rapp fans

This Mitch Rapp book picks up where Extreme Measures left off and I would recommend reading that one first. In this book, Mr. Flynn continues to have the debate around CIA tactics (not always being legal, exactly) vs. following the law. Don't be too alarmed--Rapp finds ways to break the rules and get things done so that whole debate thing gets dashed aside. There was a bit more politics in this book but overall, a good quick page-turner. Like the last book, there were a number of groan-inducing...more

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Nov 06, 2012 She-ra's A' DragQueen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: badassery, mitch-rapp

Just as the previous novel, anything from a third person perspective involving the terrorists and what they were up to was unwelcome. Instead of worrying about the goings on of these idiots, he should have used this space to write in another half dozen terrorists for Rapp to eliminate. People getting shot in the face holds my interest, terrorists bickering with one another is just annoying.

Still, Flynn once again demonstrates how he has been steadily gaining an iron grip on the title of this gen...more

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Mar 24, 2012 Sarah (Tail-Kinker) rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Jack Bauer of print!

I found the Mitch Rapp stories to be okay, action-filled but fairly fluffy. Probably not something I would have picked up on my own, but an SVP at work saw me reading in the elevator and gave them to me since he enjoyed them and I didn't want to refuse (he also gave me Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: An American Life but I won't go there).

My biggest problem with the Rapp books is the suspension of disbelief that must occur in order to buy these stories wholesale. Maybe my tole...more

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Dec 06, 2009 karl rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

So I have read nearly all of Flynn's books. This is his latest. I am in the middle of slogging through 2, long, nonfictions, and for a "treat" thought I would tear through HONOR. I did, but not a great treat.

Flynn's books all have Rapp as the CIA operative who is incredible at defending America (and getting it done quickly), but pisses off liberals who want protocol and believe strongly in prisoner rights.

This is just another novel of bad Islamic Al Queda type folks coming to DC to commit havoc...more

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Nov 05, 2011 Kevin Allmaras rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

An OK novel. First one of Vince Flynn's that I have read. Somewhat formulatic to me. Plot was also fairly predictable. Still was a quick read and I will read some more of his I think there is a lot of ways for him to go with these characters. After a horrible bombing in Washington Mitch Rapp one of the CIA's lead agents in counter terrorism is told he must track down the three terrorists that escaped. At the same time he is also being investigated by the Senate for torturing American citizens.He...more

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Mar 13, 2010 Toni Osborne rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Book 10 in the Mitch Rapp series

Strap yourself in; the story moves rapidly, lots of thrilling action, no dull or sluggish moments. This latest installment puts Mr Flynn at the top of his game, making him one of the kings in this genre of writing.

“Pursuit of Honor” follows “Extreme Measures” in it a series of cataclysmic events occurred and Rapp and Nash managed to thwart the terrorist attack with grave consequences to the first responders. In the aftermath, Rapp’s priorities are to deal with the...more

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The fifth of seven children, Vince Flynn was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1966. He graduated from the St. Thomas Academy in 1984, and the University of St. Thomas with a degree in economics in 1988. After college he went to work for Kraft General Foods where he was an account and sales marketing specialist. In 1990 he left Kraft to accept an aviation candidate slot with the...more The Vince Flynn Story

The fifth of seven children, Vince Flynn was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1966. He graduated from the St. Thomas Academy in 1984, and the University of St. Thomas with a degree in economics in 1988. After college he went to work for Kraft General Foods where he was an account and sales marketing specialist. In 1990 he left Kraft to accept an aviation candidate slot with the United States Marine Corps. One week before leaving for Officers Candidate School, he was medically disqualified from the Marine Aviation Program, due to several concussions and convulsive seizures he suffered growing up. While trying to obtain a medical waiver for his condition, he started thinking about writing a book. This was a very unusual choice for Flynn since he had been diagnosed with dyslexia in grade school and had struggled with reading and writing all his life.

Having been stymied by the Marine Corps, Flynn returned to the nine-to-five grind and took a job with United Properties, a commercial real estate company in the Twin Cities. During his spare time he worked on an idea he had for a book. After two years with United Properties he decided to take a big gamble. He quit his job, moved to Colorado, and began working full time on what would eventually become Term Limits . Like many struggling artists before him, he was a bartender at night and wrote during the day. Five years and more than sixty rejection letters later he took the unusual step of self-publishing his first novel. The book went to number one in the Twin Cities, and within a week had a new agent and two-book deal with Pocket Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint.

Term Limits hit the New York Times bestseller list in paperback and started a trend for all of Flynn's novels. Since then, his books have become perennial bestsellers in both paperback and hardcover, and he has become known for his research and prescient warnings about the rise of Islamic Radical Fundamentalism and terrorism. Read by current and former presidents, foreign heads of state, and intelligence professionals around the world, Flynn's novels are taken so seriously one high-ranking CIA official told his people, “I want you to read Flynn's books and start thinking about how we can more effectively wage this war on terror.”

October 2007 marked another milestone in Flynn’s career when his ninth political thriller, Protect and Defend, became a #1 New York Times bestseller. A few months later, CBS Films optioned the rights for Flynn’s Mitch Rapp character with the intention of creating a character-based, action-thriller movie franchise. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who previously launched the Harry Potter and Matrix films as head of production at Warner Bros., and Nick Wechsler (We Own the Night, Reservation Road) will produce the films.

Flynn lives in the Twin Cities with his wife and three children.

Works by Flynn include Transfer of Power, The Third Option, Separation of Power , Executive Power , Memorial Day, Consent to Kill, Act of Treason, and Extreme Measures.
-- Atria Books (2008)

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