The Third Option

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When diplomacy has failed and military intervention is deemed inappropriate, our leaders often turn to a silent and dark community for results. This is a course of action not always taken by wise and honorable men. In certain circles it is known as

The Third Option

Fresh from retaking a battle-scarred White House after a vicious terrorist attack, Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counter-terrorism operative, is sent on his final mission. His target: a well-known German industrialist who has been selling highly sensitive equipment to one of the world's most notorious sponsors of terrorism. As Rapp meticulously prepares to take the man out, he has no idea that there are forces within his own government that are plotting to use him.

The conspirators have devised a bold plan that will damage the president and ruin the career of the incoming director of the CIA's Counter-terrorism Center. Unfortunately, they have made one horrible miscalculation: they have chosen Mitch Rapp as their pawn. Their worst nightmare is about to be realized. They have enraged one of the most lethal and efficient killers the CIA has ever produced -- and he will stop at nothing until he finds out who set him up.

With action that sizzles from the opening paragraph and insider details that bring the story to vivid life, The Third Option showcases a New York Times bestselling author who is just hitting the peak of his extraordinary storytelling powers.

What Customers Say About The Third Option:

Mitch Rapp is a very active Hero and the adventures are spell binding. I will read this author's work again.

While this book is not as action pack as TRANSFER OF POWER, it's is very intense and the story line flows very well. It's ending leaves you rushing to read the next one.

"The Third Option," published in 2000, is the third book in Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp series and, while the book still holds up well as a political thriller, today's readers will almost certainly think about how much has happened in the decade following its publication. But now there are ten of them, and the earlier books can be difficult to find in libraries and bookstores, so it might be a while before I find out how book three's chief villain is finally brought to justice. about their knowledge of what happened in Germany, Rapp becomes convinced that CIA Director Stansfield and Irene Kennedy, Director of the Counterterrorism Center, are as much in the dark as he is.

Vince Rapp is not used to failure but this time, despite his best efforts, the mission goes badly and he finds himself on the run in Europe, wondering who set-him up and why they did it. However, some powerful government people disagree with Stansfield and they considered Rapp and his mission to be expendable if the ensuing embarrassment would keep Kennedy from the nomination."The Third Option" is a first rate thriller throughout but I was disappointed in its open-ended finish. Mitch is in Germany on what he plans as his last counterterrorism mission: taking out a wealthy German industrialist before the man can supply Saddam Hussein's scientists with the material needed for Iraq to produce nuclear weapons to benefit those waging war on the West.One more kill, and Vince plans to walk away from his old life and into the arms of the woman he plans to spend the rest of his life with - but, in Vince's business, things have a way of getting complicated.

Director Stansfield, Rapp learns, is dying of cancer and Stansfield strongly believes that Irene Kennedy is the only choice to succeed him. All he knows is that someone is going to pay the ultimate price for what they did to him - even if the order came from inside the Agency. When he finally surfaces to confront his bosses in Washington D.C.

It is obvious that the fourth book of the Mitch Rapp series picks up exactly where this third book ends - and that might have been more acceptable back in 2000 when there were only three books in the series. Bummer.

The book's plot is mildly interesting, but certainly nowhere as interesting as Flynn's previous novels. Sadly, this book stops well short of finishing the story. Instead of tying up details in the plot, it spends the entire second half of the book setting up plot lines that will no doubt be carried into the next novel. This was the last Flynn book I will read.

Vince Flynn is an excellent author, and he has a good plot with exciting action. Flynn obviously quickly ended this book with just a teaser for the next book in the series. However, I was very disappointed with the lack of an ending. It was like the end of movie serials I saw as a kid - an exciting story ending with a teaser to lead you into coming back for the next edition. It's a shoddy technique for such a good author. If you don't mind playing the game, then read this one, with the understanding that you'll have to buy and read the next book in the series to find out the true ending.