MEMORIAL DAY by Vince Flynn

Finished Tu 7/8/14

This was one of the books that I picked up at the library sidewalk sale this June.

Not much character development and things are portrayed as 'all black' or 'all white'. It perfectly encapsulates the Bush Years, and is a gung-ho endorsement that we are 'the good guys' and 'they' are in league with Satan.

MIGHT MAKES RIGHT

Riveting plotline and obviously just begs to be made into a movie. There's probably a bidding war to determine who will play Mitch Rapp going on as I type this line.

Pakistani nuclear scientist enters the US and has an unexploded (dud) nuclear weapon extracted from an abandoned Soviet firing range.
He and his comrades get the bomb onto a boat and they sail up the Chesapeake in an attempt to explode the bomb at a Memorial Day dedication ceremony.
Mitch and his team are able to fly the device via helicopter and deposit in a super US bomb shelter. When the bomb explodes, the shelter withstands the blast, and the day is saved.


Another draft of the same review. So happy that Blogger kept my first attempt as a draft. A very dandy little feature.


The book is an encapsulation of The Bush Years. Everything is portrayed in black and white. We are 'the good guys' and they are in league with Satan. Negotiation with 'them' is deemed impossible and the time for rational behavior has ended. Mitch Rapp's behavior is so violent, yet never (not even ironically) is it portrayed as anything even close to terrorism, yet it clearly is.

A Pakistani nuclear scientist pilots a boat up the Chesapeake that contains an unexploded nuclear device that was mined from an old Soviet shooting range. He, and many compatriots, have been destroyed by exposure to radiation and this is his last act in his personal holy war against the decadent west.

Rapp and his team (Navy Seals working with HRT of the FBI) take the nuclear bomb via helicopter to a secret (outdated) bomb shelter where the explosion is contained by the shelter.

Obviously this begs to be made into a movie and I'll bet there's a bidding war as to who will play Mitch Rapp going on as I type this.