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WARNING: THIS BLOG POST CONTAINS CONTENT THAT REVEALS THE PLOT AND KEY ANSWERS TO SUSPENSFUL QUESTIONS  IN THE BOOK, CONSENT TO KILL BY VINCE FLYNN. IF YOU INTEND TO READ THE BOOK IN THE FUTURE I WOULD ADVISE YOU TO KINDLY TURN AROUND NOW AND NOT CONTINUE READING. THANK YOU AND HAVE A NICE DAY.

Look Mom, I made it! I finished my first book! I knew you were right when you called me special!

All kidding aside, I'm pretty stoked that I managed to get through one book alive. I mean with all those words and pages I thought it was going to eat me or infect me with rabies. Thankfully, it did neither of those and it actually left me with something very heavy. No, not a four ton elephant type of heavy, and no, not a holocaust type of heavy. Rather, something that causes addiction and feelings that you must read on.

At the end of Consent to Kill, Vince Flynn left me with a very steep cliff-hanger. One of those were all of a sudden something unexpectedly happens, and then the book just ends. I swear this authors are devils that do this! They like to see the reader tortured with curosity on what's going to happen next. As I sit here on my nineteen year old couch, I myself am trying to contain my intense curosity.

Let me back the story up a little bit and tell you a bit of necesarry background information in order to understand why the book ending was so suspensful. Remember in the last post where I talked about Louie and Claudia, the husband and wife assasination team? Well they ended up detonating a bomb at Rapp's house which unfortunately kills Anna, Mitch Rapp's wife, and leaves Mitch severly injured. Being the type of revenge-driven-kick-ass assassin that Rapp is, he makes it his will to avenge the death of the person he loves most in the world.

So now we fast forward a couple hundred pages and land at the epilogue. The scene is set, nine months after the book ended, to where Mitch followed Louie and Claudia to Tahiti. Of course you can sense the foreshadowing that Rapp is going to plunge his bullets into the two, but that's where the twist is. As Rapp has his gun pointed at Louie's head, he overhears that the baby Louie and Claudia had was named after his wife, Anna. Mitch realizes that although all he wants to do is to kill this guy, this isn't what Anna would've wanted him to do. This is where the true heroism of Rapp is shown, as he turns around, walks away from Louie, Claudia, and Anna leaving them untouched, and disposes of his gun. Through this happening, Vince Flynn highlights Rapp's moral good side to counter-balance the bad-ass torturing terrorist operative that he is.

I felt that with this book, Flynn has a masterpiece. His beautiful author style of changing the perspective of the story may be too back-and-forth for some, but those who appreciate the focus on the war on terror and the exploration of all it's aspects, understand that this is simply brilliant.