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Protect and Defend: A Thriller
by Vince Flynn
from Atria Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• An Entertaining Read
  This is the first Vince Flynn story I have read and I did like it. Like many thrillers most of the characters have the depth of cardboard and the plot line is fairly predictable it is still a good fast read and entertaining. Much is not quite plausible.
  Some may be a bit queasy with Rapp's methods and I could understand that. Flynn is one of the few thriller writers who does have a firm grasp of Radical Islam and it's terrorist agenda to "unbelievers" and the dynamics. Flynn understands well the... more info

• One of Flynn's Best
  One of the most exciting books that I have read that did not have a lot of surprises. Flynn interwove his plot with a lot of recent history that made you want to get the bad guys and save the good guys, or women. He portrayed the Washington brass as taking a hard line with Iran which I liked but was not realistic. They would not have that much guts at least in this day and age.
  There were two characters that he fully described that just dropped from the radar after they did their thing. I always like... more info

• Is there a difference between Flynn and Thor?
  Seems to me that if you did not know the character's names the books
  by Vince Flynn and Brad Thor are almost identical.
  I personally prefer Scot Harvath to Mitch Rapp, but both books by these
  writers are good.
  BTW, I think Daniel Silva is the best in the genre. Gabriel Allon is the
  best!

• Very Dissapointing
  This is the second Vince Flynn book I've read; there won't be a third. Mitch Rapp is one of the shallowest, predictable and uninteresting lead characters I've ever come across. He's the personification of a high school tough guy. I see in Mr. Flynn's biography that he missed an opportunity to attend Marine Corps OCS. It seems that he has created Rapp to capture his lost military manhood. The character has zero believable qualities. He's not likable; he has no followable emotions; he provides no incite. In... more info

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