Transfer of Power
Pocket Star - Pocket Star
Release date: 2000-06-01
Mass Market Paperback
Author: Vince Flynn
Fiction, Fiction - Espionage / Thriller, Espionage/Intrigue, Fiction / General, Fiction / Suspense, Fiction / Thrillers, Political, Thrillers
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Transfer of Power
Date undefinedVince Flynn has certainly done his homework. I enjoy all of his books, great character development, realistic. Highly recommended if you like intrigue, and difficult to put down once you get started!
Transfer of Power
Date undefinedThis is a review of the Kindle edition, not the paper versions.
I found this book doubly disappointing. The first and most bothersome problem was the poor formatting- inconsistent capitalizations, run together words, strange hyphenations. This was distracting and didn't allow the story to flow for me.
The second problem was the predictability of the plot and the somewhat cartoon-like characters.
The book did seem to be well researched and there were few glaring errors although the author is confused as to the functions and missions of the various intelligence organizations. At least he got the weapons correct which is often not the case in novels of this type.
I don't know if the printed versions of this novel have the same formatting problems. I will probably purchase one more novel in the series and then see if things have improved.
Transfer of Power
Date undefinedTransfer of Power is a very good action novel despite the fact that the bulk of the book is a siege situation. Rafique Aziz, a Palestinian terrorist, has managed the unthinkable. He has taken over the White House and is holding several hostages. Fortunately the secret service was able to whisk the president to his secure shelter underground before the terrorist takeover.
There is a lot happening outside of the White House as a result of the terrorists' actions. The Vice President and his staff start plotting and imagining what life will be like when they take over the White House if the terrorists manage to pry the president out of his shelter. The military generals, the FBI, and the CIA all try to deal with the situation in order to rescue the president, pacify the public and accommodate the United States' allies.
Fortunately CIA operative, Mitch Rapp, can be counted on to skirt the bureaucratic red tape and come up with a plan.
It seems to me that most action novels have some shortcomings. Transfer of Power seems more believable than most, but the ending feels very abbreviated. After hundreds of pages of a siege situation the concluding action sequence seems very condensed and short on details. Much of the conclusion is told in the form of an epilogue which hardly seems like a fair payoff after the reader has been primed for 400 plus pages.
Transfer of Power is not the best action novel, nor even the best Mitch Rapp novel, but it is still an entertaining page-turner for readers who enjoy a book filled with political intrigue, special forces maneuvers and combat.
