Memorial Day – Die Gefahr [Memorial Day: The Danger]

Mitch Rapp 7 [Mitch Rapp, Book 7]

De: Vince Flynn

Narrado por: Josef Vossenkuhl, Alexander Rösch

Duración: 16 h y 24 m

Resumen del Editor

Angst vor der nuklearen Vernichtung

Islamisten wollen die Einweihung einer Gedenkstätte in Washington für ein Attentat auf den US-Präsidenten und ausländische Staatschefs nutzen.

Deshalb schickt die CIA Terrorspezialist Mitch Rapp nach Afghanistan. Dort bereiten Milizen von Al-Qaida in einem abgelegenen Grenzdorf den Angriff vor.

Doch Rapp kommt zu spät und erfährt die schreckliche Wahrheit: Eine Atombombe befindet sich auf dem Weg in die Vereinigten Staaten.

Um die Vernichtung der Hauptstadt zu verhindern, muss Mitch Rapp sämtliche Register gegen einen Feind ziehen, dessen Fanatismus keine Grenzen kennt.

Please note: This audiobook is in German.

©2020 Vince Flynn (P)2022 RBmedia Verlag

Somewhat simplistic torture orgy

I must admit after a promising start the protagonist is starting to disappoint. Mitch Rapp is often consumed with rage and anger and comes across as unhinged and unprofessional. Torturing suspects is his immediate go to solution for everything, he enjoys revenge killings and outright executions and primitively threatens members of the US administration with violence or death should they cross him. Granted that the threats Mitch is dealing with will require compromises around things like due process, the rule of law, and upholding human rights and democratic values. What doesn't work for me however is his outright contempt for all these things he purports to protect, which Mitch isn't shy to announce in repeated, expletives laden, sexist, bloodthirsty and increasingly unhinged rants. Mitch often has a point but due to anger issues seems incapable of expressing himself in a professional and considered manner. Even Jack Bauer in post 9/11 panic had more perspective and decorum. As an allegedly top tier CIA operative Mitch Rapp has become a disappointment.