Term Limits
Taking America back...one politician at a time TERM LIMITS In one bloody night, three of Washington's most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American government: set aside partisan politics and restore power to the people. No one, they warn, is out of their reach -- not even the president. A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals the killers are elite military commandos, but no one knows exactly who they are or when they will strike next. Only Michael O'Rourke, a former U.S. Marine and freshman congressman, holds a clue to the violence: a haunting incident in his own past with explosive implications for his country's future.... "Ingenious....Outpaces anything recently published, including Baldacci and Clancy." -- Florida Times-Union Includes an excerpt from Memorial Day, Vince Flynn's electrifying new hardcover
Term Limits Accessories
 Transfer of Power
Separation of Power
The Third Option
Executive Power
Consent to Kill: A Thriller (Mitch Rapp Novels)
Memorial Day
Act of Treason
Protect and Defend: A Thriller
Protect and Defend
Extreme Measures: A Thriller
Term Limits Reviews
If only some House cleaning, and Senate cleaning, would happen from the correct position as this book illustrates. They of course fail to see the right/wrong as they only see liberal/stupid when they are the stupid ones. Of course it was panned in the official reviews since with rare exception the media and reviewers are all members of the wrong not part of the right. This may not be the best book ever written but it is certainly a four star book and the courage to write it in the face of certain criticism earns it the last star.
It certainly was not necessary, and to me it suggests a lack of basic research.
It's not as if that moral issue is heavily weighed or discussed, either.
I also need to add that Flynn has decided to fictionalize the topography and streets in DC.
The reader is expected to jump right past it (versus accepting the fact that a CHARACTER has absorbed and jumped past it), and clearly many of the reviewers seem OK with it.
And one nit: In the edition I'm reading, they refer repeatedly to the back seat of a vehicle as the "backseat." When did it become one word.
But I cannot get past the fact that the murder of elected officials gets glossed over as a moral ambiguity, as if there is some arguable equivalence between taking (by violence) lives of congressmen and the associated benefits of balancing the budget.
It reminds me of the Schwartzenegger line in "True Lies," "Yes, but they were all bad.".
It's an enjoyable read fast, simple and set in my home town (sort of).
So, it's a simple tale of good and evil, except I cannot find anyone who is clearly good.
Later books would end up being better but still a good read. I knew when I read this book I would end up being a Flynn fan. He was a new author and still managed to put out a really good story.
I'm reading all his books in order now, having bought half of them, my son the other half so we can share. He certainly did make it to mine. I believe this is the first of the Flynn books and you can tell that right from the get go he charged right to the top of many people's favorite author list.
I have read it three times already. Just amazing. It is a MUST READ, one of the best books I've ever read and enjoyed. Vince Flynn's first book is goes absolutely to the heart of most conservative Americans. It continues to amaze me how Vince Flynn had the vision and his finger on the pulse of radical Islam BEFORE 9/11.
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