| | |  | Mystery & Thrillers | Home » » » The Third Option | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | When diplomacy has failed and military intervention is deemed inappropriate, our leaders sometimes take THE THIRD OPTION. CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp falls prey to government forces with an agenda of their own after Dr. Irene Kennedy is named the successor to dying CIA Director Thomas Stansfield -- a choice that enrages many inside the world's most powerful intelligence agency. Her detractors will resort to extreme measures to prevent her from taking the reins -- which makes Rapp an expendable asset. But Mitch Rapp is no one's pawn, and he will stop at nothing to find out who has set him up. | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9780671047320
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Vince Flynn | | Mass Market Paperback:
| 432 pages | | Publisher:
| Pocket Star | | Publication Date:
| September 01, 2001 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0671047329 | | Package Length:
| 6.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 123 reviews |
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 Book ReviewMar 11, 2010
All Vince Flynn books are great. I just wish I haven't read them all. Nothing to look forward to right now.
Powerful and intense!Mar 09, 2010
The Third Option is chronologically the third novel by a master of political thrillers named Vince Flynn. I must say that I found this to be better than the first two. Term Limits and Transfer of Power were intense and gritty, but a few of the characters were 2-dimensional and both endings were a bit hollow & predictable. The Third Option is far more suspenseful. It moves like a Jason Bourne novel, with some clever twists and a high energy level. It starts off with Mitch Rapp, a hired assassin for the fictional counter-terrorism unit called The Orion Team, who takes a visit to Germany to assassinate a traitorous elected official. The mission goes horribly wrong, and soon there are some nightmarish complications and consequences during the outcome. Since I'm still new to the political thriller genre, I found this to be a very enjoyable read. The characters were bold and believable, especially Rapp and Dr. Irene Kennedy. The violence is typically unpleasant, so it's not for those who have a really weak stomach. For once, the ending was not the least predictable, and I ended up having the strong urge to continue with the next installment. Vince Flynn has done an excellent job with The Third Option, and hopefully he won't disappoint when I read Separation of Power.
Grade: A
Excellent 1st read, I will read this author's work againFeb 07, 2010
Mitch Rapp is a very active Hero and the adventures are spell binding. I will read this author's work again.
Another good one.Jan 29, 2010
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.
When Diplomacy FailsJan 02, 2010
"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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Director Stansfield, Rapp learns, is dying of cancer and Stansfield strongly believes that Irene Kennedy is the only choice to succeed him. 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. 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. 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. Bummer.
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