American Assassin by Vince Flynn

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Not my favorite of the series. This is a better written book. It’s also overwritten, much like most contemporary novels of today. I believe, after reading the other ten books, this is my first complaint of Flynn doing this. This would have been so much better as three separate books with fewer flashbacks.

With so much stuffed in 500 pages, no one will leave this book not knowing who the central characters are. Flynn has a lot of room to flesh out the start of the clandestine activities of his hero Mich Rapp. He does that and more by connecting all the other characters that appear in the series.

The story, as usual, could very possibly be happening today, but this is set in the past. I wonder if other readers notice the absence of cell phones and iPads? This is what Flynn did best in this book: Set a story in the past and have it seem as if it could be happening today.

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