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Author Bill Terrel, a conservative Republican, became alarmed about the direction the United States was headed about fifteen years ago; at that time, he began putting his thoughts down on paper before wising up and buying a laptop. He also began to make phone calls, write letters, and seek to. I was rooting for Ronin and Olive from the very first page. By saving her, he might just save himself Digital attacks and misinformation can cost you a job, a promotion, your marriage, even your business.

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Preserve Protect and Defend by Barbara Appelbaum. Even though it's in the beginning I thought it was such a pivotal story plot that I was glad I listened to it several times. Other scenes when Mitch has to rant to get some pencil pushing politician to understand the importance of action, and especially no holds barred violent action is always entertaining. Once the story started this book was a book I listened to in almost one setting except re-listening of the key part of Irene being taken and the battle that ensues.

I have found many of Vince Flynn books to be ones in which I really wanted to sit listen until I couldn't continue or real life makes me put it down. If you enjoy military action adventure novels you'll enjoy the Mitch Rapp series. Even though these stories are fiction and you can see through the fiction to storylines and some of the reactions and outcomes really can be thought provoking.

I really enjoy stories and books in which not only entertain but if it can cause some thinking and contemplations then even better. Apparently I lean toward the tainted hero protagonist.

The guy, or gal let me not slight the fairer sex, that understands what justice and morality are and where they differ and what can be done about it. But then we have an abundance of them in every culture from Yojimbo in Japan to Robin Hood in England to Ned Kelly in Australia and to our latest on the scene; Jack ReacherIn this case Mitch Rapp has no patience with the diplomatic approach when the Iranians start to blame America again for their problems.

While the rest of the world dithers Mitch Rapp steps up and does what has to be done despite namby-pamby rules regulations and armchair quarterbacks who have never been in the field.. Fairly slow in the first half of the book I began to think this was the weakest Flynn I've read. The second half of the book was fantastic, as Rapp furiously works behind enemy lines to rescue CIA director Kennedy. Overall, a great book, better than his last novel. Those, like me, who have not read Act of Treason, the book that immediately precedes Protect and Defend will find themselves at a bit of a disadvantage as they begin this one.

The two books were written in and and Flynn assumed, I think, that his Mitch Rapp series would be read in the order in which it was written. That was more likely in than it is now that the series is at least ten books long and some of the earlier ones are getting tougher to find. That minor quibble aside, Flynn soon moves on to the new plotline and the new adventure takes center stage on its own. Suddenly hundred of lives are at stake unless Rapp can rescue Kennedy from the torturers who hold her.

Kennedy, it seems, has a photographic memory and, if she is forced to reveal the names of all the international operatives working for her, the U. Rated at: 4. In Protect and Defend, the action begins in the heart of Iran, where billions of dollars are being spent on the development of a nuclear program. No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its neighboring enemy, Israel launches one of the most creative and daring espionage operations ever conceived.

The attack leaves a radioactive tomb and environmental disaster in the middle of Iran s second largest city. An outraged Iranian government publicly blames both Israel and the United States for the attack and demands retribution.

Privately, Iran s bombastic president wants much more. He wants America and Israel to pay for their aggression with blood.

Enter Mitch Rapp, America s top counterterrorism operative. Used to employing deception, Rapp sees an opportunity where others see only Iranian reprisals that could leave thousands of Americans dead.

Rapp convinces President Josh Alexander to sign off on a risky operation that will further embarrass the Iranian government and push their country to the brink of revolution. But Rapp isn t the only one hatching plans.

Iranian President Amatullah, has recruited Hezbollah master terrorist Imad Mukhtar to do his dirty work. For decades Mukhtar has acted as a surrogate for Iran, blazing a trail of death and destruction across the Middle East and beyond.

When Kennedy s meeting with Ashani goes disastrously wrong, Rapp and Mukhtar are set on a collision course that threatens to engulf the entire region in war. The novel is a political thriller and successfully captures the tension between bureaucrats in DC and the operatives on the ground. The protagonist and his skilled CIA team use many technological resources to thwart the goals of the religious nazis of the Muslim states. When an Israeli spy blows up an Iranian nuclear facility, the Iranian government not only blames Israel but also the US.

Tensions escalate and one faction of the Iranian government - along with a leader in Hezbollah - conspire to implicate the US in several actions against Iran, including the destruction of an Iranian warship and the kidnapping of the Director of the CIA, Irene Kennedy.

As per usual, Mitch Rapp is a one-man army, working to bring down terrorism with a little help from his friends. Flynn returns to the international scene, where I think he does best, and keeps the level of action and suspense up throughout the book. I certainly have no illusions about the "literariness" of Flynn's books - they are meant as escapist literature and have little to do with the truth.

But when well done, they're a good way to spend a rainy Saturday afternoon. And there were a few "extras" with this book, too. In the past, Democrats in Flynn's world have been portrayed as spineless wimps. Perhaps Flynn is starting to see that there's a bit of gray in the world, which can only make his stores better, I think. This is the best Mitch Rapp book I've read yet.

If you enjoy political thrillers with a kick-ass hero, but don't expect a lot of philosophizing, then this book is for you. I am about halfway done. This is a political thriller in the style of Tom Clancy. The action and plot are enjoyable there is enough going on to keep my interest without getting too involved for me to read a few chapters at a time on the bus.

My major complaint is that I disagree with the politics. I know that it is a work of fiction but when characters make assertions like to paraphrase "The US occupation of Iraq signals the end of religious fundamentalism as the disenchanted youth who comprise the future jihadists are lured away by conspicuous consumption," I find myself being removed from the moment and it has turned me off of what is otherwise a good book. Exciting and passionate about his country.

A no-nonsense novel of how to protect and follow-thru on a amazing storyline. Thrilling and more. Classic Mitch Rapp spy thriller. Iran was the featured problem this time. Kind of spooky really. While Protect and Defend certainly allowed Mitch Rapp to "do his thing", it was not one of the stronger stories in the series, perhaps because it had far less going on than previous entries. In essence, Protect and Defend takes place over a very short period of time as Rapp seeks to defuse a possible war.

The action was, as always, exciting, but Flynn did not break any new ground in this book. Staying on his stomach, he rested his head on his forearms and remained motionless. The efficient practitioner in him wanted to play this one safe. Take no risks. Hit him before he even knew what was happening and get it over with. Simply putting him out of his misery would be letting him off too easily.

Everything about this operation had to be analyzed with two main objectives in mind. With the advances made in forensic science these were no small tasks. Thousands of people died every year in boating accidents—collision, fire, drowning, electrocution, or simply disappearing were all options.

Each time a new surveillance report arrived from the West Coast, Rapp took the time to read it thoroughly and in the context of his options. After a while a pattern began to emerge. Wanting to see things for himself, Rapp traveled to San Diego on a private plane. He arrived after dark and left before sunrise. From the balcony of a rented condo he spent an entire evening watching the marina where Garret kept his boat. That one night confirmed the opening that Rapp had detected in the surveillance reports.

For several months now, Rapp had imagined killing Garret more than a dozen ways, but only two stood up under scrutiny.

When they found out about the trip he was planning with the new boat, everything fell into place. Even after he told Rivera that she would take point, Rapp continued to play the two scenarios in his mind. He thought of killing Garret so often that it almost felt like a memory. His low prof ile would rouse no suspicion.

Under a clear moonlit sky he would look no different from a rolled-up tarp. On a night like tonight he would be nearly invisible. All that was left to do was wait for Garret. He was wearing faded green coveralls with his security badge clipped to the flap of his left breast pocket. His black hair and beard were shot with gray. Over the last year and a half he had swept, scraped, scrubbed, and mopped virtually every room, hallway, and stairwell in the facility.

He was respectful to his superiors, upbeat, and in general, well liked by the other people who supported the important scientific work that was being done. The name on his security badge was Moshen Norwrasteh. He was sixty-six years old. Born and raised in the southeastern Iranian town of Bam, he had lost his wife, two children, and three grandchildren in a devastating earthquake that had killed over 30, people in Norwrasteh had struggled for years to find work after the quake, and then one day a cousin who worked for the Atomic Energy Organization found him a job at the Isfahan Nuclear facility.

At first, his coworkers did not accept him. With unemployment rates so high the competition for any job, even janitor, was extremely intense. The locals whom he worked with were resentful of this outsider taking one of their jobs. Within a month or two, though, he began to win them over.

Norwrasteh had the penchant and the desire to fix almost anything—especially if it was powered by electricity. People brought in their phones, radios, toasters, vacuums—anything with a plug and he would fix it. He never accepted money, only a warm meal and some much needed companionship to help fill the void left by the death of his entire family. Hassanpour had come to his ramshackle shop on the ground level and asked him if he could drop by his house and fix a few things.

Norwrasteh said that he would be honored. After installing a ceiling fan and fixing two broken lamps, he received neither an offer of payment nor a simple thank-you. Sitting down for a warm meal, even with the house servants, seemed out of the question. Norwrasteh remembered leaving the house and thinking to himself that he would feel no empathy for the man when the hammer fell. For the others, though, the ones who had shown him compassion and friendship, he would do everything in his power to make sure they made it out of the facility unharmed.

He had volunteered for this operation three times before the director general of Mossad and the prime minister finally relented. From the very beginning their greatest reservations lay in the fact that Shoshan himself was volunteering for the mission. The man simply knew too much. He was fluent in both Farsi and Arabic, and, most important, he had spent the first twenty years of his life living in Iran. Born in Tehran, Shoshan was the son of a wealthy diamond merchant who was very influential in the Persian Jewish community.

Once things blew over he planned on bringing the family back. Unfortunately, they never did. The sham of a legal proceeding lasted less than five minutes. He was denied representation and was not allowed to speak on his own behalf. Adam Shoshan was the only surviving male relative. Against the wishes of his mother, he moved to Israel and enlisted in the army right as things were once again heating up in the region.