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Extreme Measures | 
 enlarge | Author: Vince Flynn
Creator: Armand Schultz
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 273339
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Abridged
Pages: 5
Number Of Items: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 0743568737
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780743568739
ASIN: 0743568737
Publication Date: January 5, 2009 (New: This Week)
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Rapp takes a back seat November 29, 2008
N. Brett (Wiltshire, England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Vince Flynn takes a different direction with his characters in this one. Rapp takes a background role and although his scenes are a delight, it is Mike Nash who is the main good guy. Nash offers something else, he is a family man with some domestic issues, smart but not the bulldozer that Rapp is.
Against the background of an impending attack on the US, this is a book about political in-fighting and how the rights of individuals should be balanced against the need to protect the Nation. The CIA methods being questioned by liberal politicians and slowing down the need to fight fire with fire, is the main thrust of this book.
The point is made bluntly and is made a little too obvious at times.
This is an okay thriller but not up to previous high standards.
Lots of Slow-Moving Legal and Political Wrangling as Background to a Terrorist Threat November 3, 2008
Donald Mitchell (Boston)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mitch Rapp fans should be warned that Extreme Measures features Mike Nash (a counter-terrorism agent who has been trained by Mitch) as the protagonist with Mitch Rapp making occasional explosive appearances. When Mitch Rapp appears, the thrills will curl your toes. The rest of the time, however, you may feel like you are listening to either C-Span or a boring prosecutor on Court TV.
There seems to be a serious purpose behind the book: To demonstrate the advantages of suspending constitutional limitations on the government when there is a clear and present danger of immediate harm from terrorists. If you want to know more about the benefits of that approach, you will find plenty to engage you in this story that will probably strike you as very plausible.
From a thriller reader's perspective, this isn't a total thriller. It's more like a book about political intrigue with thriller scenes in it.
So what's it all about? Two terrorist cells have been stopped that had been headed for the U.S. Two well-connected Taliban leaders have been captured in Afghanistan (Abu Haggani organizes suicide operations using Down syndrome children and Mohammad al-Haq is the liaison with al-Qaeda) and are in custody of the U.S. Air Force. A group from Congress has visited the detainees and promised them rights under the Geneva Convention. The CIA desperately wants to find out if there is a third terrorist cell still functioning . . . and where it's headed. Mike Nash and Mitch Rapp descend under the pretense of being Air Force personnel . . . and get caught in the act before they can find out what they want to know. The repercussions reverberate throughout the book.
In a parallel story line, there is a terrorist cell finishing its training in South America under Karim Nour-al-Din who dreams of creating much carnage for Allah. You follow the cell step-by-step as it approaches closer to its target.
In the story, there are several sources of tension:
- will the terrorists be stopped?
- will Mitch Rapp beat the rap?
- will Mike Nash survive the pressure?
- will Mike's family deal with the consequences?
- will the CIA be able to do its job in the future?
Although that sounds pretty thrilling, the book moves slowly from its opening so that the tension merely simmers along for the first two hundred pages or so. Frankly, the story would probably have made a better novella than novel by cutting out most of the background conflicts and focusing on the more imminent parts of the threat.
If you can't get enough of Mitch Rapp, don't miss the book. If you want mostly Mitch Rapp, skip the book.
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