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.