Pursuit of Honor eBook Review

Since I've spend most of the last week doped up on muscle relaxers, codeine or cold medicine, and didn't have the mental capacity or tenacity to turn the virtual pages of Cleopatra, I had to go for something a little less, shall we say, mentally challenging. And so, I read Pursuit of Honor which is the Mitch Rapp book that follows Extreme Measures. In this book Mitch Rapp continues to hunt the terrorists who have bombed our nation's capital. He shoots some people in the head. He busts some ribs. He uses some extreme measures.

I'm not sure if I'm more concerned that I like to read these books with all of their violence or that there could really be this type secret spy shit and wiretapping and breaking of laws going as I type. Call me naive, but I like to think that I can't be located in two seconds using street cameras and cell phone triangulation. At one point in this book, and I don't know at what page because Kindle stupidly doesn't give you a page number but a percentage (please Kindle programers, put the page numbers in there), the terrorists were going to go after Mike Nash's family. And I said more than a little annoyed, "Earl, this is some bullshit and we are not going to read about kids getting killed." And Earl* agreed. And we didn't read the book again until Bill confirmed to me last night that no kids were going to be killed. Then I finished it in about 15 minutes. I'm sorry, I gotta draw the line at kids being killed for the sake of plot advancement.

*No, I am not reading the book out loud to Earl. He is usually just the one closest when I read in bed at night. That is, when he's put on his cloak of bravery and made the hallway his bitch.