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But only one of them can survive. Praise for the Mitch Rapp series 'Sizzles with inside information and CIA secrets' Dan Brown 'A cracking, uncompromising yarn that literally takes no prisoners' The Times 'Vince Flynn clearly has one eye on Lee Child's action thriller throne with this twist-laden story. He grabs you by the scruff of the neck on page 1 and doesn't let you go until the end'Stephen Leather. On a cold day in January, President-elect Kerry Kilcannon takes the oath of office—and within days makes his first, most important move: appointing a new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

And a secret. And from Judge Masters to a conservative, war-hero senator facing a crisis of conscience and a fifteen-year-old girl battling for her future, no one will be safe.

The attack leaves a radioactive tomb and environmental disaster in its wake, and has Iranian president Amatullah calling for blood—American blood. But when a back-channel meeting between CIA director Irene Kennedy and her Iranian counterpart goes disastrously wrong, Rapp is locked in a showdown with a Hezbollah mastermind in league with Amatullah—and he is given twenty-four hours to do whatever it takes to stop unthinkable catastrophe.

Three of his fellow agents have died in unusual circumstances in the past ten weeks. Luke is devastated by the loss of his friends and colleagues, and his inability to locate the killer feels like a personal failure. He's an expert at shielding others, but now the protectors are in need of protection. She's been put in charge of the investigation into the unprecedented attacks, and with Luke's life in danger, the stakes have never been higher.

But it's hard to know how to fight back when you don't know who the enemy is. As more agents are targeted, Luke and Faith will have to work together to bring a killer to justice and prevent any more names from joining their fallen brothers and sisters on the Secret Service Wall of Honor. Award-winning author Lynn H. Blackburn pulls out all the stops in this brand-new romantic suspense series that will have you holding your breath one minute and swooning the next.

Preserve, Protect, and Defend: A Practical Guide to the Care of Collections is an essential text for museum professionals, volunteers and consultants across a wide range of responsibilities: curators, registrars, collections managers, archivists, museum administrators, museum educators, conservators, art historians, operations staff, designers, engineers, architects, building contractors, suppliers, security specialists, and pest control experts.

The topics are wide ranging: conservation assessments; practical advice for examining collections and buildings to uncover collection safety issues; routine collection safety practices; preparing for the unexpected, including wind and water penetration, fire and smoke, and infestations; and controlling the museum environment including temperature and relative humidity, light and lighting, and air quality.

The book also offers an inside look into the world of museums and the people who work in them. Written in the accessible-and sometimes irreverent-style that the author is famous for, this book is a must-have for everyone who cares for collections and the buildings that house them-museums of all sizes, archives, libraries, and private collections.

Do you know what legal steps you need to take to safeguard Your family? Your business? Your money? Maybe you were caught in a car accident where you're not sure of your rights, or you're looking for a lifetime of legal protection for your company, your family or your wealth. Whatever the case, you need to know what it takes to protect your rights and defend you and your loved ones from unforeseen legal threats.

Protect and Defend is the book that delivers that vital information by gathering together America's leading attorneys to bring you practical advice based on their years of top-level experience. In each chapter, you'll get exclusive access to their expertise, as they tackle some of today's most crucial legal issues-issues that affect us all every day. The law can be your best friend-or your worst enemy. And you absolutely need to know how to put it on your side whether you're facing an immediate emergency or looking for long-term solutions.

Protect and Defend brings you proven strategies to help you do just that-before it's too late. In response to the terrorist attacks of 11 September , the United States embarked on a dramatic and sustained effort to reform and revitalize its homeland security policies and structures. This book offers an examination of the evolution of policy and the concurrent restructuring of existing agencies, as well as the creation of new bodies designed to counter the threat of transnational terrorism.

Furthermore, by integrating the existing paradigms of contemporary security policy with the changing nature of threat and response, it provides an invaluable overview of existing and likely future security threats to the US homeland.

Author Bill Terrel, a conservative Republican, became alarmed about the direction the United States was headed about fifteen years ago; at that time, he began putting his thoughts down on paper before wising up and buying a laptop.

He also began to make phone calls, write letters, and seek to connect with politicians who could help the country change its course. Terrel considers issues that are important to all Americans, including how you can play an active role in holding leaders accountable; reverse the bad policies of the Obama administration; evaluate information delivered by the media; and rediscover the values that make America a great country. Be inspired by an American who has refused to give up, and help the United States rediscover the principles on which it was founded.

Long estranged from her blue-blooded New England family, attorney Caroline Masters is summoned home to defend her niece against charges of murder.

Police found twenty-two-year-old Brett Allen blood-splattered and incoherent near the scene of the crime, the weapon covered with her fingerprints. Going to look for more books by this author!

Justyna A short but with lovely book for fans of both authors, but also a lot of insight into freedom of speach, creativity and the importance of libraries. Some words to take to heart, some words to live by, some words to get more liberated in the pursuit of artistic endeavours. Definitely a good thing to read. You don't know it yet, but it's likely you need this book. Emily May I was hesitant to buy Protect and Defendthis release based on some of the reviews but finally decided to pull the trigger.

This book seemed like the only official publication that was going to give me that so I finally bought it. I've read other Vince Flynn books in the past and enjoyed them, but I won't be reading any more after this one. On the positive side, there's a lot of action, and if you're the kind of person who likes watching 24 on TV to see Jack Bauer torture "bad guys", well you're in luck because protagonist Mitch Rapp kills a tortures a lot of bad guys here.

In fact, he takes out his knife and castrates one man, against orders I should point out, but it's okay because he's doing it all for the good old US I've read other Vince Flynn books in the past and enjoyed them, but I won't be reading any more after this one.

In fact, he takes out his knife and castrates one man, against orders I should point out, but it's okay because he's doing it all for the good old US of A, right? I got sick of the torture and the pro-torture propaganda in this book.

As for believability, Mitch Rapp turns out to be a virtual one man army, mowing down dozens of enemy commandos without breaking a sweat. As for likability, Rapp's ethics are highly questionable. I'm not just talking about his eagerness to torture and castrate, but also his being so quick to decide who needs killing, based sometimes on incomplete and possibly false information, other times on assumptions. I don't want to read another book about protagonist Mitch Rapp unless it's the one where he finally gets what he deserves for all the murders and tortures he's committed based on questionable and probably false information.

View all 11 comments. Jan 02, Sarah Koehler rated it it was amazing Shelves: Typical Mitch Rapp novel — but this was exceptionally good. This is also where reading the series in order is a good idea. A great read with lots of thrills.

Another amazing Mitch Rapp adventure. Mitch Rapp never disappoints. He is the character we all want on our side. He certainly does the jobs we don't want to know about. I'm thankful he's on our side.

The action was nonstop. If you like action, you will love this book Flynn's Rapp at his best! Apr 23, Michael rated it liked it. In some ways this is a very typical Mitch Rapp book but in other ways it's considerably different.

Ways that it's similar to books before is in portraying so many Muslims in a very stereotypical way. They are, in that stereotype, ruthless, hate filled, ignorant in their refusal to see reality. Ways that it's different is that it portrays a few Muslims as reasonable, with a conscience, compassionate. Flynn is also confusing regarding American politics.

He takes ample opportunity to disparage D In some ways this is a very typical Mitch Rapp book but in other ways it's considerably different. He takes ample opportunity to disparage Democrats and be supportive, for the most part at least, Republicans.

He consigns attributes to either party that would, from all the evidence one can take from the news articles I'm not talking fake news but real news be more accurately assigned to the other party. But then in previous books he shows certain Republicans to be intractable in their inability to deal with reality and in this book he portrays many Democratic officials as quite reasonable.

Those things can affect the reading of a novel, its overall flavor if you will and it certainly does with the Rapp series. But onward and, if not upward at least. Flynn is no longer with us.

If he were I would suggest to him that America has more enemies than Muslims, radical or not. Read Jason Matthews' Red Sparrow series for one example of that. Then there are the drug cartels from Mexico and the homegrown groups that embrace Nazi symbols and the hate they represent, how some of those group members will engage in violence, mass shootings.

But overall Flynn's writing is believable though at times Rapp is such a superhuman that it defies the ability to suspend reality. This book is filled with a lot of that and was fairly formulistic. It had little new in it and much was a repeat of things in previous Rapp books. I have the next book in the series on my nightstand but if it isn't on a higher level than this it will be my last of the series.

There are far too many good books to settle for mediocrity. Well, I guess you could say that my review of this book can best be summed up in the form of a limerick: This, the ninth book of Flynn, Is a slow burn, to begin. Full review available in audio format on Ep. Oct 23, Dan Banana rated it it was amazing.

All Mitch Rapp books are the same but, different and yet all thoroughly enjoyable. Fantastic series at 9 or 10 books in. Another Vince Flynn novel and another late night of reading the last fourth of it in one sitting. Protect and Defend , while starting slow, held my attention well and really picked up about half way through.

By the end it was literally impossible to put down. What a great read! It is always a delight to finish a Flynn book. Protect and Defend picked up where Act of Treason left off. In fact, I felt like the first few chapters focusing on Mitch Rapp might have worked better as an epilogue to Act o Another Vince Flynn novel and another late night of reading the last fourth of it in one sitting.

In fact, I felt like the first few chapters focusing on Mitch Rapp might have worked better as an epilogue to Act of Treason than the opening of Protect and Defend. But I've noticed an emerging trend in Flynn's series. Fewer prologues and fewer epilogues.

Fine with me. I guess Flynn needed an action packed opening but didn't want it to feel all deus-ex-machina-y. Still, it didn't really do much for the plot of Protect and Defend.

Protect and Defend shifted it's plot more toward a far-reaching global threat a la Tom Clancy than a focused personal threat. The specter of a nuclear Iran was tossed into the mix this time as well as a brief smidgen of submarine drama. For a moment I thought I was reading Tom Clancy.

Those similarities were short lived though and I found myself back in the whirlwind called Flynn before I knew it. The book's plot dealt with current issue topics such as global nation-state relations or the lack thereof and the danger behind allowing a handful of crazies to make important political decisions in the midst of a crisis. Irene Kennedy is back as Director of Central Intelligence and she has an important role to play as Mitch races, once again, against the clock to save the day while doing his best to sidestep the "by-the-book" bureaucrats and to dole out an impressive amount of silenced head shots to the foreheads of the twisted enemies of America's interests.

Everything I've come to expect from Vince. Despite the opening action scenes feeling a bit out of place with more relevance to the previous novel than the one in which they appear, I get why Flynn wrote Protect and Defend in the manner that he did.

It worked to have protagonist Mitch Rapp focused elsewhere while the building block events of the plot began to take shape. It felt a tad odd to have a brief splash of romance tossed in the mix early in the novel and never returned to later but I didn't think it necessarily hurt the flow. Again, Protect and Defend suffered from very few typos or formatting issues. The Kindle version I read flowed well due to it's obvious polish and was, again, short on errors.

I've come to expect that from Flynn's stuff. Kudos to the editing staff. The pacing was a bit underwhelming early on and there was a distinct lack of steady building. The novel was steady through act two but once act three began, it was a mad dash for the finish. Not all bad. I enjoyed the urgency of the finish. Let me say this. If you like your good guys to be rule breaking badasses who bust heads down in the gutters and are just trying to do their job while staying a step ahead of a bunch of infuriating politicians who second guess their every move and dole out ridiculous orders from their wood paneled, plush offices in the high towers of bureaucratic power, Vince Flynn is for you.

This is common sense, blue collar entertainment. Again, Yaaay! I can't seem to get enough of these books. Love 'em. Four stars for Protect and Defend. Jun 09, James III rated it really liked it. Vince Flynn, like Brad Thor, wears his political beliefs on his sleeve. It is for this, and many other reasons, I truly miss Mr. His Mitch Rapp kicks ass and takes names like no other and is clearly the badest mother in the valley.

As our tale begins, Rapp is lying in bed with a beautiful woman. Then, he sneaks out and kills a man. The target in question i Vince Flynn, like Brad Thor, wears his political beliefs on his sleeve.

The target in question is a loathsome human being whose actions and inactions has caused the death of innocents. Iran is on the verge of getting the Bomb and someone just blew up their secret nuclear reactor.

The Americans, well, the Republicans, are heroic and fearless while the leadership of Iran except for one are madmen blinded by their own ego, pride, or agenda. As for the rest of you American-hating Pinko Commies, well, you probably hate Christmas too. View 2 comments. Nov 25, K. Absolutely rated it it was ok Shelves: suspense-thriller. I used to read political thrillers when I was younger so I picked up this book. I thought I wanted to see if this kind of genre would still excite me.

I did. What makes book like this worth reading is its ability to entertain its readers by keeping them at the edge of their seats enough for them to keep on leafing until the problem of the agent Mitch Rapp, in this series by Vince Flynn is solved. My problem is that everything is pure entertainment. Flynn like other writers in this political thr I used to read political thrillers when I was younger so I picked up this book. Flynn like other writers in this political thriller genre plays on the world conflicts or well-known personalities and weave almost impossible scenarios or shocking scenes the castration of a man in this story to cater to the macho readers.

In this book, Flynn uses the conflict between Iran with its plan to stock on nuclear wars and Israel that wants to prevent it. Then US comes in in its role of being the world police.

Good that there was no mention of weapon of mass destruction WMD which is understandable considering the Vince Flynn is an American writer and neither a politician nor a Democrat. If I were not into heavy reading, I would have liked this so much that 3 or 4 stars would be the outright rating. However, the entertainment that I got from reading this was something I could get from reading say Bernard Malamud God's Grace but with the added bonus of enjoying Malamud's skillful prose and non-formulaic plot.

At this point of my reading, I have already matured into a reader who doesn't only want to be entertained or surprised but gain wisdom from my reading. That explains the 2 stars it's okay. Feb 18, Abram rated it really liked it Recommends it for: sick twisted freaks. Honestly, I almost didn't finish this book.

I had finished about half the book in about a week of evening reading and was at the point where I wanted to move on to something else more intriguing, But Flynn had come so highly recommended by so many of my sick twisted friends I decided to give it one more chance, and so i picked it up about pm with the intention of possibly finishing another chapter, around am I closed the book on the last page and realized I was totally tense from the ac Honestly, I almost didn't finish this book.

I had finished about half the book in about a week of evening reading and was at the point where I wanted to move on to something else more intriguing, But Flynn had come so highly recommended by so many of my sick twisted friends I decided to give it one more chance, and so i picked it up about pm with the intention of possibly finishing another chapter, around am I closed the book on the last page and realized I was totally tense from the action in the book. Phew it was a gripper, if you can get through the first half of the book you wont be sorry.

Disclaimer: this book is for sick twisted freaks only, socialists need not apply. View all 5 comments. Dec 08, Ryan Mac rated it liked it. This is by far the worst of the Mitch Rapp books. There is always some level of unbelievability to these stories but this one is really out there.