Separation of Power

Mitch Rapp Series

By: Vince Flynn

Narrated by: Ken Kliban

Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins

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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All Mitch Rapp books are entertaining. Some amazing, and some great. But they all keep you entertained the whole way through. Vince Flynn does a great job to depict corruption in Politics that actually makes it fun to read rather then run for your life, like I do whenever it's re-election season in TV commercial world. This story is a bit different then the other 9 I've read from the Mitch Rapp series, where it has less action, but more deceptive plot thwarting. The thing that seriously made it unbearable even from the first few minutes, was the narrator. What the heck was the production company thinking hiring this guy? Was George Guidall on vacation? Even Nick Sullivan (who narrated two mitch rapp books was better). I seriously think this was a horrendous decision on everyone's part to hire Ken Kilban. Google Jack Palance and listen to how he adds an extra breath at the end of each sentence and word, and this ken guy, is 15x worse. I wonder if that's how he talks in real life? what a disaster. If you can power through, then the good news is atleast he only reads one of the books in the long series. He ruins Mitch's character. He ruin's Dr. Kennedy's character. I don't mind his voice for the whiny politicians, that actually seems to fit. But my biggest problem is with Vince Flynn approving of this guy, and the production company doing the same. Regardless, decent story with less action then mitch is used to. And a horrible narration job. The worst.

Good Story....Narrator not so much

Good story but I almost couldn’t finish this book because of the narrator. His inflection and cadence were over the top, almost sounded like Captain Kirk from Star Trek. Made the protagonist sound like a whiney child instead of a well trained spy.

Great book, narration horrible

I am absolutely enthralled with the Mitch Rapp series and this book doesn't disappoint. However, the narrator is absolutely horrible. I would have stopped listening and read the book but I do not have that amount of time. I listen to the books on my hour long drive to work every morning and I was really tempted to cut this book really short due to the way it was read. I really didn't want to skip it to go to the next book so I continued on. With my ears bleeding, I finally made the end.
The voices were absolutely horrible and he made Mitch sound like a whiny school boy. The other voices were just as bad and I cannot in good faith recommend hearing this guy.
If in fact you do listen to him, be aware that your ears may bleed. your temperature will probably rise and you may end up with a case of turrets while listening.
As agonizing as it was to listen to this book, the story itself was great!! I recommend reading it though to save yourself and mind from the horribleness ( yeah, I don't think thats a word ) your about to encounter by pressing play.

Crappy narrator

i hated the narrator. I hated his voice and he sounded as if he were yelling EVERYTHING!!!!

Long winded

Story was drawn out quite a bit. Full sections were repeated unnecessarily about thoughts of love and relationship. Literally skipped full chapters to try to get through it. Once the action started in the last 3 chapters it got interesting.

Great Book, needs a deeper voiced narrator though.

Not the best narrator. Too much nasal for the voice of Rapp. However, love the story, every time. Flynn is an excellent writer, with just the right amount of detail.

Least favorite in the series so far

For 3/4 of the book, I had a very hard time getting into it. As the stories tie together and the ending is near, it starts to get more thrilling and moves faster which are the attributes I experienced through the entire book of each of the priors. I imagine it has mostly to do with the performance which I felt was over-acted and unrepresentative of the characters. But the story also seemed very slow to get started and also contained a too-juvenile relationship story that I mostly skipped through.

Regardless, I loved the prior books and look forward to the next one while hoping it gets back on track to the same style, intrigue and excitement of the others.

Great book, did not like narrator

Narrator seemed to only to make Rapp either winey or angry for most of the book. It got a little better towards the end. It was such a different character portrait of Rapp it was difficult to listen to at times, especially the first half of the book. But the story was good and in the end the emotions were more towards normal.

Get someone else!

What made the experience of listening to Separation of Power the most enjoyable?

Like everyone else I must say the narration was the worst ever! So bad that it changes the personality of Mitch and the other key players. I dont like Anna anyway but this made her out to be such a whiny BiTch. The story was very good and unfolded at a nice pace, worth giving a try.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Kennedy-she has backbone and is level headed

Would you be willing to try another one of Ken Kliban’s performances?

NO

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Yes

Any additional comments?

NO

Narrator ruined the story

Another good story in the Mitch Rapp series. Almost gave up on it though as the narrator makes Mitch sound like a winer and over exaggerated all the character's reactions.