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A Rambo perfectly suited for the war on terror
November 20, 2005


CONSENT TO KILL
By Vince Flynn
Atria, $25.95, 465 pages
REVIEWED BY BRENDAN CONWAY

CIA agent Mitch Rapp kills terrorists and their supporters; that's the mission of his fictitious life. More than this, he relishes it, for political and professional reasons, but also for personal ones. Terrorists killed the love of his life not once but twice. So Mitch isn't about to stop simply because the political establishment tells him to. That wouldn't have worked when Mitch foiled a plot to nuke New York and Washington, and it wouldn't work now.
"Consent to Kill," the fourth of Vince Flynn's plot-driven Mitch Rapp novels, is somewhat clunky and two-dimensional, but its virtue is its bigger-than-life and rather Nietzschean protagonist. Intelligence buffs will also appreciate the attention to tradecraft as well as Mitch's divebombing of official Washington. Mitch disdains the establishment, nearly to the point of hate. In that sense he is a new hero, or antihero, in the spy-thriller genre, different from James Bond or Tom Clancy's CIA operative Jack Ryan. He is a dark, grudge-settling hero for the age of terrorism, a natural-born killer of radical Islamists who can't suffer the fools who get in his angry way.
Who could imagine James Bond hiding in a dark Montreal alley, waiting to slit the throat of an imam, cursing his misdeeds as he waits? Mitch does this. The imam, a recruiter of suicide bombers, was a porno addict who tried and failed to conduct a Madrid-style bombing in Paris and slipped away to Canada, where the authorities -- the solicitor general is a "wimp" -- let him preach hateful Wahhabism. "Khalil was a coward," Mitch reasons as he waits in the shadows. "He poisoned the young minds of impressionable men and duped them into joining his jihad." Like the assassin he is, Mitch dispatches Khalil to make it look like revenge. No martinis and nonchalance here; Mitch is all vendettas and expletives.

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