I love a good techno-political thriller. I’ve read all (well almost, his last few are pretty bad) of Tom Clancy, most of Ludlum and Le-Carre. So when someone recommended I try out Vince Flynn, I thought great! The recommended place to start was The Third Option.
The plot is fairly straight-forward, a german industrialist is supplying equipment to build a nuclear weapon to Iraq. Mitch Rapp, operative extraordinairre, is sent in to “dispose” of the german. Unfortunately he gets doublecrossed, and is himself the target of the assassination attempt. Needless to say a whole bunch of techno-political spy fun ensues till the end….
This is a good book, a really good book. Definitely not by any sort of literary standards. Its much more like a pint of Cherry Garcia ice cream. A guilty pleasure that you let yourself indulge in occassionally.
If you like techno-spy thrillers then I heartily recommend checking out some of Vince Flynn’s work. I know next flight I’ll be reading another of his books…
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I recently picked up Vince Flynn’s book, Term Limits and I must say it is quite good. I look forward to reading more of his novels.