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Tom Clancy fans who have not yet discovered bestseller Flynn (Consent to Kill) and his maverick, do-whatever-it-takes hero, CIA operative Mitch Rapp, will find this page-turner right up their alley. When an al-Qaeda–style bomb attack on the motorcade of the Democratic presidential candidate, Georgia governor Josh Alexander, in Washington, D.C., a month before the November election kills the candidate's wife and several Secret Service agents, Rapp uses all the tools at his disposal to investigate the claim of the now discredited head of the protective detail that a mysterious figure in a red baseball cap set off the fatal bomb. Rapp soon finds that the motive for the outrage may be personal rather than political. While the underlying plot elements require a great deal of suspended disbelief, Flynn will pull most readers along with his taut writing and plausible vision of the real work of the intelligence community. Author tour. (Oct.)
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In Act of Treason, Vince Flynn shows readers the underside of political power, where mercenaries are born and thrive and betrayal is business as usual. A fast and furious page-turner from beginning to end, "thrillers do not get any better than this."-- Copley News Service --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
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  • Hardcover: 415 pages
  • Publisher: Atria; 1 edition (October 10, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0743270371
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743270373
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (155 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #28,408 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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68 of 77 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A solid entry in the series, October 11, 2006
Well, I just finished reading Act of Treason. I have been highly anticipating this book and did thoroughly enjoy reading it for the most part. I have to say I was disappointed with the ending and was expecting much more from Vince Flynn. I will not give away any spoilers from the book but I will say that as I read through the book, I couldn't help but get a feeling almost as if Vince Flynn was kind of trying to get the reader of this book ready for a transition. I didn't feel that Mitch Rapp was carried through this book as he has been in the series since he was introduced. I couldn't help but wonder if maybe we are being given the first stage of withdrawing Mitch from the Vince Flynn novels. I certainly hope not but there were some nuances in the book that gave me that feeling. It was good to see some of the guys from previous novels back in such as Scott Coleman and his team. After reading Consent to Kill I had to wonder what direction Rapp would be taken in. Mitch is being portrayed as getting older and while still at the peak of his game, I can only wonder how much longer he will be kept at that level. The first few reviews of this book have thoroughly stated much of the book so I won't go into repeating statements. With a new administration to deal with, I hope Mitch can get back to the action that carried him through his first few novels and made for such a page turning read. If you are a fan of Mitch Rapp, you most certainly won't be disappointed with this new book, atleast that is until you get to the end.
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33 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Not Nearly as Exciting as Flynn's Previous Work, October 10, 2006
During the heat of a presidential election a terrorist group in the Middle East threatens violence to try to influence the results. Some weeks before the election is to take place a car bomb goes off near one of the presidential candidate's motorcades and kills the wife of the presidential candidate and dozens of innocent bystanders. The voters decide that they won't be pushed around by terrorists and vote in the presidential candidate who was attacked. Mitch Rapp and his friends at the CIA are left to uncover the plot as ruthless and dangerous people are afoot. Sounds like a great thriller but Act of Treason is not up to the standard we expect from Vince Flynn.

Vince Flynn deserves a lot of credit for an almost prophetic handle on the continuing war on terror. Before the 9-11 attacks Flynn had written novels about militant Wahhabism attacking the United States. While on the book tour for his last book, Consent to Kill, Vince Flynn talked about secret CIA prisons where Iraqi and Afghani insurgents and terrorists where interrogated outside the view of the public eye. A year later there were stories in the popular press about those same secret prisons. Flynn has been a bestselling author thanks to his research and his connections to U.S. servicemen out in the field. He combines his solid research with a great storytelling ability which typically makes all of his novels thrilling page turners.

Act of Treason abandons some of the formulas that have worked so well for Mr. Flynn in the past. Vince plays around with different themes. In his past works there was the "ticking time bomb" mentality which has driven much of the motivations for the protagonist Mitch Rapp. Flynn also tries to tackle the controversies that plague presidential administrations as they close, especially presidential pardons. In fact, much of the plot of the book involves pardons in a thinly veiled discussion of all the last minute pardons of the Clinton Administration.

Without the immediacy of a clear threat against the United States, the reader is left wondering why there is such a hurry. Can't Mitch Rapp just take his time killing all the bad guys? Unlike in most of Flynn's previous books like Memorial Day, there's no climatic finish where at the last possible moment the U.S. is saved from disaster. In reality, the only pressures which push us to the end of the novel is to see how everything is played out. Even in this department Act of Treason is lacking.

The novel doesn't actually resolve itself. Early on the reader is made to think Flynn is going to take on the philosophy of many liberals that terrorism is a law enforcement issue and not a military issue. At one point it even looked like there would be a court scene involving a torture case. Flynn even had a chance to play around with the ideas of the new online journalists like Matt Drudge and their effect on public opinion. None of these possibilities ever panned out. Flynn wasn't interested in testing out those waters at all.

This book had so much potential for Flynn to expand his scope as a novelist and tackle some very big and complex issues. Instead those were glossed over and even forgotten by the end of the book. Sure, the book was still very readable and had some entertaining points. It just lacked the page turning qualities that made Vince a bestseller while it didn't show any expansion in his possibilities as a novelist. Would I still recommend reading it? Probably not for any but the most fanatical Mitch Rapp fans. Those new to Vince Flynn novels are best off looking to his earlier works to fully appreciate how good Vince Flynn can be.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars C+ Effort from A+ Author, October 21, 2006
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Vince Flynn and his publisher strrreetttched this book by publishing in a large font with lots of blank space between paragraphs and chapters. Although the book, at 400 pages, is nominally the same length as his previous efforts, it achieves this by a classic student maneuver of writing big and leaving lots of space to meet those 400 pages. The actual content would make about 200 pages of a normal book.

The writing is without the detail that I have come to expect from Flynn. At points, there is a glimmer of character and depth, but for the most part, the action and characters are briefly sketched out. The first half of the book starts with the detail that Flynn does so well, but by the end, it reads like a draft. In "Act of Treason", Flynn seems to have written this book too close to his publisher's deadline.

The editing missed at least 3 grammatical errors.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been written in far fewer pages
The first 100 pages were great but the next 300 dragged. The final 10 pages were o.k. Flynn suffers from a problem that most of today's crime novelists suffer from. Read more
Published 17 days ago by Alexander

2.0 out of 5 stars The ending was ludicrous
Act of Treason is Mitch Rapp's eighth outing - and frankly a mystery why it was released the way it was. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Flynn keep them coming....
Each book in the series is awesome, just when I think they will drop off, they continue to surprise.... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining... that's about it.
1. I've read several V. Flynn's books and this is another good / solid entertaining book; nothing less, nothing more.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Thank goodness I got this book out of the bargain bin...
This book must have been a great read for Dick Cheney fans. What fun to read about a world where torture works, a super agent gets to act as judge, jury and executioner, and... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Liked it but not as good as earlier books
I always like a Flynn book. But this one seemed a little slower than some of his earlier works.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Quick Review
An attack on the top presidential candidate's motorcade leaves the candidate's girlfriend, her assigned Secret Service agent and many onlookers dead. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars How can you not LOVE Rapp?
I won't go into the plot details, as other reviewers have done so extensively. I was actually glad to see some of the other characters return. Read more
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