Term Limits

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What if America's politicians were held accountable for their broken promises -- and made to pay for their corruption?

With a unique flair for heart-pounding dramatic tension, meshed with the technical precision of Tom Clancy, author Vince Flynn brings to life a chillingly credible scenario of Washington under siege -- in a provocative, edge-of-your-seat political thriller.

In a night of shattering brutality, three of Washington's most powerful and unscrupulous politicians have been executed with surgical precision. Their assassins, vanishing without a trace, have delivered a shocking ultimatum to the leaders of the American government: set aside petty, partisan politics and restore power to the people, or be held to deadly account. No one, they warn, is out of their reach -- not even the president.

A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals that the killers are stealth experts, elite military commandos with the proven capacity to penetrate the tightest security and neutralize any target. But no one knows exactly who they are or when they will strike next. Only Michael O'Rourke, a former U.S. Marine and freshman congressman, holds a clue to the violence: a haunting incident in his own past with explosive implications for his country's future.

Compelled by his memories and by his sense of honor, O'Rourke confides in the one woman he trusts, crusading journalist Liz Scarlatti, only to uncover hidden land mines of corruption and murder among the highest ranks of leadership. But as the casualties continue to mount, O'Rourke and Scarlatti make a terrifying discovery -- an appalling truth that the American people can never know if the nation is to survive.

Delivered with the dead-on impact of a sniper's bullet, TERM LIMITS is a tour de force of authenticity and suspense, an all-too-realistic and utterly compelling vision in which the ultimate American ideal -- a government of the people -- is taken to a devastating extreme.

What Customers Say About Term Limits:

Passable story, poorly written.This is the first piece of fiction I've read in a few years and the first one I've read by Mr Flynn. Halfway through the book I noticed that no one in the story actually picked anything up; they always "grabbed" it. The story is interesting enough, although implausible on a number of levels. Those who care already know, and those who don't care won't be impressed.

So. No one ever dialed a number; it was always "punched in." It became a distraction when every few paragraphs a different character "grabbed his digital phone and punched in" numbers. "Michael and Coleman" this and "Michael and Olsen" that. if you want the same old watered-down yet over-adjectived Clancy dialog and a "just desserts" ending, go ahead and read this. Maybe such sloppiness is from the author, maybe it's from the editor, but it sure detracts from the tale. In short, I was disappointed.

And why is one character (Michael) almost always referred to by his first name while everyone else is referred to by his/her last name. Otherwise, pass on to something else. Someday the authors of these military/thriller stories are going to realize that no one cares that (for instance) a particular Heckler/Koch weapon takes a 9x19 cartridge. (The same goes for Tom Clancy - his narratives suggest he sits in the bars outside military bases and eavesdrops on drunken servicemen discuss weaponry while he scribbles notes under the table).However, the real shortcoming in Mr Flynn's work is the writing style.

In this world just as in our world there is no Black and white for good and evil but the real world Gray. The Characters are all very realized and the intrigue really moves the story along. I will definitely be continuing on to his Mitch Rapp series. A political thriller that is very relevant today. If you like 24 and politics and espionage stories then this is where to go.

Quoting Jefferson, the killers announce a plan to form a new perfect union since the leaders of the present United States chose corruption and reelection over ethics and what is good for the people. In Washington DC everyone demands favors or else will take their money and influence to someone who will grant that favor. Senator Fitzgerald was in DC for over four decades; his job as he knows it is to get reelected. Perhaps the only Rapp on Term Limits is Rapp never shows up.Harriet Klausner

The recent Supreme Court decision on election funding will exponentially increase peddling, which adds to the timely reprinting of Mr. Flynn's cautionary political thriller. Congress is worse as it is has career participants who even when they leave still hold power as lobbyists, etc. Although originally published during the Clinton era, the underlying premise holds up through the Bush administration and looks likewise for Obama.

Next stop for the Johnson's Brothers Plumbing van is putting a bullet through the head of Congressman Koslowski. Only fed up first term Congressman Michael O'Rourke, a former marine planning on not rerunning, begins to put together who is behind the assaults.This is an exciting thriller from the onset and never slows down as Vince Flynn makes the case that party affiliation or political philosophy of those in power is irrelevant as only reelection matters. The American system is built on trading favors, not stock. Everyone points at everyone else in the usual blame the donkey game.

The FBI finds no clues to the murdered Congressman though the Fitzgerald's homicide differs in means from the other two. However that will never happen as an assassin breaks the senator's neck in his home. The final victim of the night is Senator Robert "Prince of Pork" Downs.Everyone in DC is frightened from the military like precision of the assault.

It also has a great ending. I can't wait for him to finally get his own book (series). This book is were it all begins. No, there is no Mitch Rapp, but Scott Coleman is a great character.

Flynn's characters are what Clancy's would be if they had a set of balls to go along with their brains. Unlike them, I haven't found Flynn's books more lacking with the completion of each new book he turns out (which I cannot say this about T.C). Personally, I like it when the "good guys" aren't afraid to put on a darker hat than the typical white one we expect them to wear, which might be why that while I still enjoy most of Clancy's books and characters, I enjoy reading Flynn's books even more. Granted while this book is not technically a part of the Rapp series, which has been well explained by other reviewers on this site, there are several of the characters involved in it are and the mood conveyed is (at least in my view) carried on through the Mitch Rapp series. I'd have to wager that Flynn is more talented than some others in his genre (such as Tom Clancy).