Memorial Day

By: Vince Flynn

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

It's just seven days before Memorial Day, and a spike in CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States. Now it's up to counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp to pull out all the stops.

Rapp immediately leaves for Afghanistan, where he leads a special forces unit on a daring commando raid across the border into a remote Pakistani village. Their target: an al-Qaeda stronghold. Rapp and his team soon discover plans for a catastrophic nuclear attack on Washington, DC. Information is quickly relayed back to CIA headquarters, and a nuclear emergency support team scrambles to the scene. In a few hours, the freighters have been located and disarmed and the danger has been averted. Or has it?

Mitch Rapp can't shake the feeling that the operation seemed just a bit too easy. Rapp follows his instincts on a quest to unearth the whole truth. What he finds is truly terrifying, and with Memorial Day closing fast, Rapp must find a way to prevent a disaster of unimaginable proportions.

©2004 Vince Flynn (P)2011 Simon & Schuster

Critic reviews

"The king of high-concept political intrigue." (Dan Brown)

"You'll be hooked....Move over, Jack Ryan!" ( Portland Oregonian)

Spell binding.

This was a real thriller right up to the very end. It was quite captivating.

Excellent

Great plot and read very well. It kept me interested the whole time. I couldn’t stop listening.

Outstanding story

This is an outstanding story, you gotta like Mitch Rapp and the irrepressible Irene Kennedy! The narrator just doesn’t give this story line the punch it needs though

Excellent Book

I have avoided this book in the past because the only version available on Audible was the abridged version. Abridged version are only for those who have an attention span of a third grader. I will never understand how you can take a great 14 or 15 hour book and hack it to less than half it's original length. Murder mysteries are great because of their detail. I love the Mitch Rapp books and this one is very good also. I loved it. George Guidall "is" Mitch Rapp. He's read all of them to us. This is a scary book and has an element of "could happen" which makes it even better. I have loved every Mitch Rapp book that Vince Flynn turns out. Just wish he would stop doing the abridged stuff. Abridged books are worthless. I like the detail. That's what makes a book exceptional for me. I am glad I waited until Flynn's publisher finally got a clue and put the unabridged version on Audible. I will definitely read the whole series again sometime. There is another one out there that is also only in the abridged form (I forget the name of it). I will NOT buy that book until we get the whole thing on Audible.
I would definitely recommend this book along with all of his other in the unabridged version.

It's about time!!

I have refused to listen to any of the abridged books by Vince Flynn. I kept hoping they would come back and do unabridged versions of the older books and here we are! As always, I enjoyed the book immensely and Vince Flynn is becoming one of my favorite writers. He's not Hemingway or Faulkner, but his stuff is great entertainment and the George Guidall (once again) brings it to life. The only complaint I can offer is that I wish they did the unabridged versions from the beginning of the series forward not in reverse. I would much rather make my way through the series in the order intended. But, I'll take what I can get--as long as it's unabridged.

Great espionage thriller by the genre master!

Memorial Day is Book 7 in the Mitch Rapp series and was the 5th book released. Picking a best or favorite Vince Flynn novel is impossible for me, but Memorial Day likely has the longest period of sustained intense suspense as a nuclear bomb arrives at the heart of Washington DC with the countdown to detonation becoming very near and stopping the clock being impossible.

I'm listening to the entire Mitch Rapp series for the third time. I seldom listen to any book twice.

Guidall's narration is...perfect!

Mitch does it again!

I find the combination of this Author & Narrator make excellent company on my longer Car journeys. They seem to create a listening environment where the kilometers just seem to fly by! This story was no disappointment!
Ray.

Breathtaking!

The Story is captivating and the narrator is amazing. one of the best series on audible.

Great foray into uncomfortable realities!

Excellent dive into the worst possibility the nation is likely to face. This character development is it's best to date.

The Book Where the True Rapp Starts To Take Shape

I could tell Flynn really found his stride on this Rapp book.

It scares the hell out of me that national politics could win over common sense when trying to fight terrorists. Flynn did his job with this one.