Secrets of the City

oh joy, he’s local? yikes. gotta love that torture (and yukking it up with bill o’reilly about the loser liberals). ish.

I’m curious, too. Is it light fiction for those in need of a Counter Strike break?

From Publisher’s Weekly
“Flynn continues to ratchet up the stakes for CIA assassin Mitch Rapp, who here battles a Saudi billionaire bent on revenge, an ex-East German Stasi spy and a deadly husband-and-wife team of assassins. There’s a $20-million contract out on Mitch’s head, and to add injury to insult, he hurts his leg during a morning run… Besides terrorists and assassins, Mitch has to battle the new national director of intelligence, a craven, hypocritical, inside-the-Beltway operator. When Mitch whacks this twerp on the side of the head with a heavy file during a high-level meeting, readers will stand up and cheer. Flynn is sometimes criticized for turning out formulaic work, and while that description fits here, he perfectly measures all of the ingredients for a fast and furious read.”

I’ve read one of his novels — it’s a page-turner in the Grisham mold (yes, I’ve read one or two of his as well). Lots of action, interesting hero, but the “bad-guy” liberals are complete caricatures — soft on national defense, corrupt as hell, hung up on being “p.c.” over doing what’s right, etc. Flynn would probably defend that choice by saying he’s not out to write complex novels that reveal all sides of every character, but to me it came across as an author who doesn’t understand “liberals” enough to create a realistic depiction of one.

On the personal/political side, Flynn seems like a good guy — however, I have never seen him yukking it up with the likes of O’Reilly and Hannity. I’m guessing he does what he has to in order to sell books. But, as the Strib story noted, he’s a frequent guest on KFAN’s Dan Barreiro show — Dan’s all over the map politcally but probably leans more to the left on most issues, and he and Flynn have a good vibe. Flynn comes off like he said in the story — not a Kool-Aid guy, but clearly somebody who favors the Republican agenda.

All in all, I’d say if you’re looking for a good book — not great literature, but a good book — you could do a lot worse than Vince Flynn.

Oh, those deadly husband-and-wife assisin teams, they’re the worst! If there is a movie, I predict a new role for the Pitt/Jolie axis of hottness…

(also, isn’t it kind of counter-productive for readers to stand up and cheer? I would think they’d probably just lose their place…)

“Mitch has to battle the new national director of intelligence, a craven, hypocritical, inside-the-Beltway operator…”

Guaranteed that guy’s a liberal, or at least a (gasp!) Democrat. That’s the way his characters work — any American who’s working against his heroic CIA operatives has to be a liberal. Oh well, whatever sells.

I’ve read one of his novels — it’s a page-turner in the Grisham mold (yes, I’ve read one or two of his as well). Lots of action, interesting hero, but the “bad-guy” liberals are complete caricatures — soft on national defense, corrupt as hell, hung up on being “p.c.” over doing what’s right, etc. Flynn would probably defend that choice by saying he’s not out to write complex novels that reveal all sides of every character, but to me it came across as an author who doesn’t understand “liberals” enough to create a realistic depiction of one.

Which book did you read? If it was Term Limits then you should definitly read the rest of them. I love Vince but I have to say that Term Limits wasn’t half as good as it could have been.

I enjoyed this novel ” Consent to Kill ” very well written. hope it is made into a movie.