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I did enjoy the, undoubtedly accurate, account of the self-serving politicians, out of control political correctness, and bureaucratic machinations that impede the ability of our armed services and covert ops to do the jobs they must do, and do well, if we hope to maintain the freedom and security to which we have become accustomed in this country. Flynn hits those topics dead on.

Flynn liberally uses the working man’s expletive (the f-bomb) in his novels, as an expletive. In Extreme Measures it is used several times as a verb, a perhaps subtle but significant distinction in my estimation. The obligatory Flynn torture, or Extreme Measures, inclusion is also considerably more disturbing in this novel as, in one instance, it occurs at the hands of the bad guys and is much more graphic and disfiguring. This IS NOT a novel for any but mature adults.
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