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Extreme Measures: A Thriller

In the newest devastatingly intense thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn, his deadly and charismatic hero Mitch Rapp wages a war against a new enemy with the help of a fellow soldier as dedicated and as lethal as they come.

Vince Flynn's thrillers, featuring counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, have dominated the imagination of readers everywhere. In them, Flynn has captured the secretive world of the fearless men and women, who, bound by duty, risk their lives in a covert war they must hide from even their own political leaders.

Now, Rapp and his protege, Mike Nash, may have met their match. The CIA has detected and intercepted two terrorist cells, but a third is feared to be on the loose. Led by a dangerous mastermind obsessed with becoming the leader of al-Qaeda, this determined and terrifying group is about to descend on America.

Rapp needs the best on this assignment, and Nash, who has served his government honorably for sixteen years first as an officer in the Marine Corps and then as an operative in an elite counterterrorism team run by Rapp is his choice. Together, they have made careers out of meeting violence with extreme violence and have never wavered in the fight against the jihadists and their culture of death. Both have fought the war on terrorism in secret without accolades or acknowledgment of their personal sacrifices. Both have been forced to lie to virtually every single person they care about, and both have soldiered on with the knowledge that their hard work and lethal tactics have saved thousands of lives.

But the political winds have changed in America, and certain leaders on Capitol Hill are pushing to have men like Rapp and Nash put back on a short leash. And then one spring afternoon in Washington, DC, everything changes.

Using his insider knowledge of intelligence agencies and the military, Flynn once again delivers an all-too-real portrayal of a war that is that is waged every day by a handful of brave, devoted souls. Smart, fast-paced, and jaw-droppingly realistic, Extreme Measures is the political thriller of our time.  more

  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Feb-01-2009

Vince Flynn comes through again

If you like a fast paced, timely political thriller, you'll love Extreme Measures. At times it is too close to the truth of what is going on in the world to allow you to escape into a "fantasy world" to get away from it all. Mitch Rapp is the perfect protagonist - the type of hero sorely needed...

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  • Posted: Jan-31-2009

Typical Action, but not the same payoff

I have faithfully read all of Flynn's Rapp novels and this is the first one I felt he got a bit too carried away trying to make his point. He does so at the expense of the action which I love. It's very timely with Obama threatening to close Gitmo and having former Gitmo prisoners showing up as...

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Jan-28-2009

Opportunity lost

An increasingly tedious book about immoral men committing immoral acts against other immoral men who would otherwise be committing immoral acts. The only thing less likable than any of these immoral characters are those characters with any semblance of morality.It's a shallow, if technically...

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  • Posted: Jan-28-2009

Democrats Should Read

Great book but the real message of the book relates to our treatment of "prisoners/detainee's" from the war on terror.....perhaps more Democrats should read the book instead of supporting the closing of Gitmo.

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  • Posted: Jan-27-2009

Not Your Usual Flynn but Still Great

As other reviews have noted, this isn't your usual Vince Flynn but it's still an outstanding work I think. The book begins with Flynn's hero Mitch Rapp undercover running a CIA operation trying to prevent another attack on American soil by terrorists. Rapp's role in the rest of the book is not as...

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Jan-25-2009

scary

What makes this book so great, other than Mitch Rapp of course, is how easily it could be a work of non-fiction instead of fiction. Mr. Flynn does a great job of helping the reader understand the reasons behind the characters decisions. Are there individuals such as them in the US right now? My...

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  • Posted: Jan-22-2009

My husband loved this book

My husband loved this book. I am about half way, and really into it too. This is the first time we read Flynn. I saw him on O'Reilly last December promoting this book, and got it as a present for my husband for X-mas. If you are a conservative, you will probably like it. If you are a strong...

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  • Posted: Jan-20-2009

Too much politics, too few bullets

With Tom Clancy apparently retired and Robert Ludlum apparently dead, those of us who love the big scale thriller have had to settle for a lot of less talented imitators. Vince Flynn has been head and shoulders above the ever growing number of wannabe Clancys and Ludlums, unfortunately his...

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  • Posted: Jan-17-2009

America's James Bond is Mitch Rapp, fantastic page-turner

As a librarian who reads a lot of historical fiction, romances and self-help books, I was encouraged to read this American James Bond by the enthusiasm of several library patrons. It reads like current events and Flynn's take on the need for fighting the war on terror by remembering these are...

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  • Posted: Jan-14-2009

Politics aside, this is a contrived, tedious and unremarkable 'thriller' with few thrills

This is one of those novels that will likely have a polarizing effect. While the politics of an author shouldn't be a measure of whether or not he/she has written a good thriller, it can effect some reader's opinion of the novel. Some left leaning readers might find elements of the novel...

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