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  • Separation of Power

  • Mitch Rapp Series
  • By: Vince Flynn
  • Narrated by: Ken Kliban
  • Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (10,467 ratings)

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Separation of Power

By: Vince Flynn
Narrated by: Ken Kliban
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Publisher's summary

Newly appointed CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy is the target of an inside plot to destroy her and prematurely end the American President's term. To make matters worse, Saddam Hussein is close to entering the nuclear arms race - something Israel has vowed to stop. With the haunting specter of World War III looming, the president calls on his secret weapon: top counter-terrorism operative Mitch Rapp. But with only two weeks to take out the nukes, Rapp is up against a ticking clock - and impossible odds.

Take another thrill ride with Mitch Rapp.
©2002 Vince Flynn (P)2011 Simon & Schuster

Critic reviews

"First-class political intrigue from a master storyteller." ( Booklist)

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Love Mitch, hate Anna

I will always wonder if Flynn purposely made Anna so annoying so that we would all be happy when he finally kills her off in a future book. Narration wasn’t great but not as bad as some of the reviews say. I love all of Vince Flynn’s books despite Anna Reilly.

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Good story but mismatch with narrator. He’s not a bad narrator, just not for a Mitch Rapp story. Stick with it as it gets more tolerable in second half. And if you turn the narrator speed down a level or two it is much easier to listen to.

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over act much

The story is good and fun but with Ken's narration it seems like every conversation the is an argument.

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Good story, flawed narration. Read paperback.

When I started getting annoyed with Mitch and Anna, started disliking their characters in this book, I stopped myself and asked why that was. It was the narrator and his weird screech yelling that he seems to favor. The other thing that kind of bothered me about the narrator was the strange ways he chose to pronounce words, words like despicable or how he'd say lived, as in short lived, pronouncing the hard i, as in we're live on the air. Anyway, that's just how I feel about the narrator, but the story was pretty good... I'd recommend just reading the paperback.

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I don’t like the presentation

I don’t like the narrator!! I don’t think Mitch would raise his voice like that or anyone around him would. Ken likes to yell!! I have whole series and love the story otherwise.

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Missing George Guidall

George Guidall needs a raise and should complete a series instead of having different readers telling the stories throughout a series. He's the best and this book would have been much better.

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pretty good

one character I cannot handle is Mitch's girl friend. she greats on my nerves with her pushy overbearing ways and thinking rules do not apply to her. I k ow this is a book but a good one. I found myself getting lost in the story to the point I was super frustrated with Ms Riley.

looking forward to starting the next book.

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Another excellent story, of course, by Mr. Flynn.

Fantastic story with lacking narration unfortunately. Mitch Rapp makes it still worth a listen! I am forever a fan of Mr. Rapp.

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Narration...Not Good...Story..not as strong.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

This is my fourth Rapp book for me..loved the the first three. Story line wasn't the strongest. Not your typical Rapp series..Ok, I get it..he is in love and she is in love with him..but how much dedication and story telling and description does one need..enough already... we get it. This didn't keep my interest as much as the first 3. Here's hoping the 5th book is a gem.

What didn’t you like about Ken Kliban’s performance?

OMG, horrible. The first three books and two different narrators. Both were excellent. Sorry, but Ken did not do justice to Rapp. Sounded whinny...females voices were also horrible. Accents were decent.

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Narrator makes a difference

Would you listen to Separation of Power again? Why?

No. I stopped listening because the narration drove me nuts. I listen to so many books on tape and I have never stopped the book on tape to read the hard copy. I did this time.

What did you like best about this story?

I love the Mitch Rapp stories

How could the performance have been better?

Yes.

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