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by Vince Flynn (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books; New edition edition (1 Aug 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743450663
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743450669
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 11 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,122 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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When a spike in CIA intelligence suggests a major terrorist attack planned for Memorial Day, the president orders Mitch Rapp to pull out all the stops. Rapp leaves for Afghanistan where he leads the ultra secret Special Forces unit on a daring commando raid across the border into northern Pakistan. Their target: an al-Qaeda stronghold. Within a subterranean room, Rapp and his team discover a treasure trove of maps, files and bills of lading for multiple freighters heading to US ports - all pointing to plans for a catastrophic attack on Washington DC. Information is relayed to CIA HQ. In a few hours, the freighters have been located and the danger averted. Or has it? \par To Mitch Rapp, it all seems too easy. Following his instincts on a quest to unearth the whole truth, Rapp makes a truly terrifying discovery - and with Memorial Day closing fast, he must find a way to prevent a disaster of unimaginable proportions. \fs18 \par }


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Vince Flynn is the New York Times bestselling author of seven thrillers, including most recently CONSENT TO KILL and MEMORIAL DAY. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three children. Visit www.vinceflynn.com
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fast moving, tense, 23 Mar 2006
By Ms. Yvonne Greene (Banbury, oxon United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Memorial Day (Paperback)
Fast moving, edge of the seat action and suspense. Ever wanted to tell a politician to "shut up and listen"? CIA hero Mitch Rapp does! Great story, and unfortunately very realistic.
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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Realistic Thriller about How to Stop Terrorists, 3 Jan 2005
By Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Memorial Day (Paperback)
Many thrillers are so abstracted from reality that they are describing a world that could never exist. The best thrillers take our natural paranoia and build from there to create a living nightmare that thrills and chills us.

Memorial Day is a rewarding addition to the gradually developing subgenre of the anti-WMD terrorist thriller. Naturally, we all fear terrorists killing millions with WMD. How might they go about it? How might we stop them? Memorial Day provides many rewarding answers to the former and fewer realistic answers to the latter.

Mitch Rapp is a one-man wrecking crew who knows no limits to his ability to protect the United States. He's very much in the vein of an American James Bond except that he is a family man with no obvious vices. In that sense, he's more like Superman without the super powers.

As the book opens, the CIA observes unusual activities and levels of terrorist "chat" which makes it look like an attack may be coming soon. Mitch Rapp learns that a number of al-Qaeda leaders are together in a Pakistani village and organizes a "black" raid on the village. That raid allows him to interrogate several prisoners and he learns that the U.S. is at risk in the near-term. Fortunately, the raid also provides documents that help pinpoint the sources of the risk and counter-terrorist efforts begin quickly and smoothly. But is there enough time?

The main false note in the story is that Mitch Rapp knowingly ignores legal and ethical limits on what the U.S. can do whenever he feels the need to accelerate responses. In the process, the book condones murder, torture and unlimited violence as long as it helps us defend ourselves. At a time when many are rethinking how far we should go in interrogating prisoners, this book suggests no limits. That point is a gratuitous one that was not required for the story to develop in an exciting and realistic way.

Many will be cheered, though, by the attacks in the book on those who pursue antiterrorism primarily for political gain. There's been too much of that going on.

The action parts of the story are the best. So if you like to read about raids and commando actions, you will enjoy this book very much.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars BRILLIANT, 28 April 2006
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i thought that the other reviews of this book do not do it justice - this is another brilliant masterpiece from Flynn. Mithch Rapp is the typical gung-ho American CIA agent in the war on terror. He does his job exceptionally well and emands respect from all the top political leaders including the president. However not everyone likes Rapp's waya, even on the inside and when terroists have brought a nuclear bomb into the country only Rapp can save the president again.
Well worth the read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Well written, with an intresting end
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