VINCE FLYNN!!

Okay, so I am the only girl in my family. I have four brothers. They have taught me well. One of my older brothers continually introduces me to a side of literature that I most likely would not have run across on my own. He is quite a reader (11 books in about the last two months) and we like to share our little gems with each other. He has gotten into the Vince Flynn series; thrilling political conspiracy theory novels filled with military action, noble causes, and quite a few people with very short tempers. Term Limits is the first of the series. Flynn's books mostly center on a Jason-Bourne, can-do-anything-and-everything type character (I am told) named Mitch Rapp. Term Limits introduces other characters who continue throughout the series, but does not include Rapp.

Term Limits starts off with a night violence in the high up political world. Three of Washington's most powerful (and most corrupt) politicians are silently assasinated. Silently, that is, until the next morning. Along with anonymous demands from the assassins and a pledge to continued killing if the political leaders don't follow through with their always lofty election promises, Special Agent McMahon of the FBI is assigned to invesigate the unsettling, virtually untraceable, and unraveling case.

This book was 612 intriguing pages long. Flynn's story development is incredible. He pulls you in, gives you just enough information to be curious, and then drops an unpredictable surprise on you that sucks you in and ensures you will never get anything done until the last page. There are a lot of characters and the perspective (3rd person) switches between each of them in the different places that they are. They start out about a chapter or half a chapter apart, but as the stories get more intertwined, you start jumping between consciousnesses almost every other paragraph! It's very exciting.

My only caution to this book is the language. As I previously stated, these characters have pretty short tempers and not a lot of self-control over their sailor-mouth, so to speak. Just get a black marker, however, and you are set!

Great book by a skilled story teller, Vince Flynn.

Read my brother's Vince Flynn post here!