Customer Reviews

The Third Option

Make sure you have time set aside to read this because once started you will not want to put it down.
I was always a great fan of Tom Clancy but reading Vince Flynn's work to-date has changed my definition of a book that I just can't put down. Along with Patrick Robinson, Vince Flynn has been my favourite author of the past twelve months and I trust he will keep his brain cells busy to come up with more like this one.
Tom Clancy writes some great stuff but occassionally can get a bit bogged down with technical details whereas the flow of Vince Flynn's work is fast and furious throughout without losing a sense that the events that unfold could really happen.
You needn't have read his previous works Term Limits & Transfer of Power as this a great read in its own right but I loved the way this book brought strands together from both of these books which previously were almost entirely independent. By the end of the book I wanted more and was glad to see that the follow up to this, Balance of Power, had been released in hardback which I ordered immediately. This is also a cracking read!
My only slight criticism as a reader of the previous books and this applies to his latest one as well, is the slight repetition of background information which I found slightly tedious. However, I can fully forgive Mr Flynn as he has done this to enable to the books to be read by first timers and this is a great advantage to them.
Reading both The Third Option and Balance of Power in a week left me very tired from staying up late reading but more of the same from Vince Flynn is definitely in order!

This is a magnificent follow up to "Transfer of Power" and "Term Limits". You will find your self glue to the book and will have a hard time to putting it down. Mr Flynn has grown even more as a writer and his knowledge of the in and outs of the US inteligence communtity is superb, you will find yourself will a wealth of knowledge after reading it. Read it or you will miss out.

Sorry to say, but this offering is a bit of a clunker, just finished it and was shocked at how bereft of action this was. If I was after a novel full of political chicanery then this is it, but there are far better and more dynamic episodes of Mitch Rapp's career than this.
Slow paced and action light.

A tense thriller with, for me, too melodramatic a plot to carry me along. But what had a compelling if absurd fascination was the chick-lit quality of his writing. Macho-male meets retail-therapy bimbo. You think I exaggerate? See how he lovingly describes his top-of-the-range super-expensive guns and rifles. It was so disconcerting and incongruous that it had a certain addictive charm, but I shall not be reading another of his novels. If you going to shoot someone, get on with the job; don't drool over the tool as though it were a posh perfume. The Third Option

Read 'Transfer of Power' and was hooked from the start so I decided to read this; the next one in the sequence. I was as good as the other and I'm going to read the one after 'Separation of Power'.

If you like Lee Child/Jack Reacher then you should like these books.

What else can I say... other than I really enjoyed reading it. Great book. Great plot and really fun to read.

This is another excellent work by a fantastic writer. I have read all his books and wait expectantly for the next.

I like his style of writing and the characters he writes about. Mitch Rapp is similar to Jack Reacher by Lee Child.

The political debates, games makes the book exceptionally good. A very well written thrilling book. I like to books in which the good and evil figures are separated and win the good.

Avidly reading all of these in the right order. Another great read from Vince Flynn. What will I do when I run out or Rapp?!