title: Extreme Measures (A Mitch Rapp Novel)
author:  Vince Flynn 
description: Any hope this contrived thriller had of suspending disbelief for most readers who weren't already fans of bestseller Flynn's Mitch Rapp series (Protect and Defend, etc.) is lost early on. Rapp's CIA chief, Irene Kennedy, is on a date at a fancy Washington, D.C., restaurant when one of her aides informs her that Rapp, an Oliver North for the war on terror, has fallen into yet another jam with his unorthodox, maverick ways. Under false pretenses, Rapp has gotten access to two high-value terrorists being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Believing that an Islamic fundamentalist cell is about to launch an attack on the homeland, Rapp resorts to violence to get information. His actions lead to his arrest by the base commander, but with precious hours ticking down, Kennedy decides to finish her meal before intervening. Even then, incredibly enough, it takes two days to secure Rapp's release. The rest of the less than convincing plot includes a grandstanding senator's efforts to hang Rapp out to dry and the inevitable race to prevent disaster. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  VINCE FLYNN
  
  
  His explosive bestsellers featuring Mitch Rapp are "FANTASTIC" (Glenn Beck) .
  . . "JUST FABULOUS" (Rush Limbaugh) . . . "SPECTACULAR AND EXCEPTIONALLY
  TIMELY" _(The Providence Journal, RI)_
  
  
  Fighting the enemy has Mitch Rapp breaking all the rules--in Vince Flynn's
  
  
  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
  
  
  EXTREME MEASURES
  
  
  "If you start this well-written thriller, you'll stick with it, probably past
  your bedtime."
  
  
  --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  
  
  "If I had the mythical wallet of endless wealth, I would buy up a few hundred
  thousand copies of Extreme Measures and start passing them out on street
  corners . . . [to those who] haven't considered the issues raised in this
  book. . . . Flynn demonstrates that he truly understands the psyche of the
  enemy. . . . The book races toward a catastrophic, and ironic, conclusion. . .
  . Really scary, so realistic."
  
  
  --[Bookreporter.com](http://www.Bookreporter.com)
  
  
  "A captivating thriller. . . . An