Memorial Day
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When a spike in CIA intelligence suggests a major terrorist attack plotted for Memorial Day, the president orders Mitch Rapp, his top counterterrorism operative, to pull out all the stops. Rapp immediately leaves for Afghanistan where he leads the ultra secret counterterrorism Special Forces unit on a daring commando raid across the border into Northern Pakistan. Their target: an al-Qaeda stronghold. Within a incomprehensible room, Rapp and his team learn a treasure trove of maps, computers, 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 quickly relayed back to CIA headquarters, and a nuclear urgent situation search team scrambles to the scene. In a few hours, the freighters have been located and the danger averted. Or has it? To Mitch Rapp, the whole operation seemed just a bit too simple. Following his instincts on a quest to unearth the whole truth, Rapp makes a truly terrifying discovery – and with Memorial Day closing quick, he must find a way to prevent a disaster of unimaginable proportions …
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Another far-right-wing, testosterone-drenched potboiler. The hero is stalled from saving the country at every turn by left-wing nincompoops incapable of logical thinking– primarily career-climbing image-conscious women, of course. The primary message of this book is that if only we could further restrict the Bill of Rights and allow the agents of our government a free hand in torturing prisoners, America would be much better off. Agreed the recent news, the timing of this message could not be worse.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This leader is a raving, right-wing hack. I couldn’t even end the book. The tale line is very simplistic and predictable, and every additional chapter involved gagging on the leader’s simplistic right-wing preaching:
Brown People = Evil
Torturers = Courageous
Democrats = Weak/Shifty
It’s impossible to delight in this book unless you’re a huge fan of right-wing propaganda. If you’re a thinking person who is paying attention, you’ll despise this leader and abandon the book before finishing it. Certainly a book designed to appeal to knuckle-draggers.
There should be a warning on the take in. I’ll never buy another book by this leader.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
As I was reading this dreadful book, I kept wondering why I continue to read Vince Flynn’s novels, considering that every one I read is somehow less entertaining than the previous. Perhaps I am just getting older and his sort of “Clancy Lite” approach seems more ridiculous now to me than it used to. Flynn’s version of Jack Ryan, “Mitch Rapp” (who might as well have been built out of spare parts from crappy Jerry Bruckheimer films) is a pathetic excuse for a protagonist. The dialogue is amazingly asinine (“get your [...] down here, or you’ll hear about it later”), the plot disasterous (a ticking bomb as the climax? Are you serious?), the writing overall is about on a 5th grade reading level, and every last character is so one dimensional that I was seriously hoping that the bomb would kill each and every one of them, but spare the innocent civilians that had no part in the book. I’m really amazed that this worthless drivel has received so many positive reviews here. One can only hope that Mr. Flynn doesn’t get wind of all this praise, for that could only lead to one thing: Mitch’s next intense mission, where he travels to Bagdad in order to thwart Saddam Hussein’s breakout from prison. It will culminate with Mitch giving one of his eloquent lines that would probably go something like this: [...] Bruce Willis will play Mitch in the movie version, and Glenn Close will be Dr. Kennedy. I can’t wait.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
be aware that this paperback edition is a new format that is over sized (about 2 inches taller than normal mass-market paperbacks). In order to justify this format, the type appears to be slightly larger and the spacing between lines is noticeably larger. And, of course, the publisher had to increase the fee to reflect the “larger book”. It is awkward to hold and won’t fit on the bookshelf with the rest of your Vince Flynn paperbacks (Mr. Flynn – your publisher is using an experimental book size and it will affect your sales)
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Vince Flynn’s “Memorial Day” isn’t so much a thriller as a series of illustrations for why we’ve got to torture people in order to beat Al Qaeda. Flynn rams his message home again and again and again and again and again, until your head wants to explode. We have to torture people, says Flynn. We have to torture lots of people. They’re terrible people, we have to torture them. Forget rules and laws and idiocy like the constitution or the founding fathers’ thought of natural rights. Terrorists don’t have rights. We can only win the war on terror by unleashing super-masculine secret agents who know lots of excellent ways to torture people.
I feel safe in guessing that Vince Flynn has never really been tortured. As it happens, I have, and guess what, folks? I lied under torture. Not because I’m a hero, but because I’m not a hero. I confessed to something I hadn’t done because I knew that was what my captors wanted to hear. You’re not concerned about telling the truth when you’re being tortured. You’re concerned only with finding out, as quick as possible, what the torturers want to hear, and giving them that. And that’s highly unlikely to be the truth. Torturers invariably have an agenda; they have a theory they want you to confirm, and until you confirm it they will go on torturing you. That’s why thousands of innocent women confessed to being witches during the Renaissance-era Witch Craze. Does Vince Flynn reflect they were really witches?
Flynn writes reasonably well, and his action scenes are regularly reasonably excellent. But he really runs hard over the plot in this one in order to pound his relentlessly right-wing political point into the reader’s head. I bought this book at a sale; I’m going to give it away (or perhaps throw it out), and I doubt I’ll read anything by Flynn again. The fact that the jacket copy lists an endorsement by Dan (“The Da Vinci Code”) Brown is only icing on the cake.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5