Act of Treason Blog part 3 (chapters 7-13)

The chapters start out with Rapp having a stakeout in front of a building where there are suspicious figures in a van. Then one of them comes out and a guy from the building comes out and gives the van guy some money. Then Rapp calls for back up. Then the scene shifts to Gazich, the terrorist bomber. He decides something is wrong and decides to leave Cyprus soon. Then it switches once again to Rapp (starting to get a bit annoying). Rapp waits and scouts out the scene when all of a sudden some guy dressed like the suspicious guy in a security tape right before the bombing of the car. Rapp realizes that this guy may be the same guy and looks closer. At closer examination, Rapp realizes that the man who just arrived had silently killed the men in the truck and was talking to dead bodies to avoid suspicion. Then the man went into an apartment building. Rapp waits a couple minutes and realizes this man might be trying to snipe people watching him. At that moment he recieves a phone call saying that the suspicious man was Gazich and he was a sniper expert. Rapp backs away from the window and goes over to the apartment building. Then the scene switches to Gazich. Gazich is in his apartment office which is actually the same building as the one that the man came out of earlier (money exchange guy). The guy who exchanged the money was Andreas, Gazich's good friend. Then back to Rapp. Rapp calls for backup but they can't get there soon enough so Rapp decides to go solo. He enters the apartment and goes up, passing many suspicous people. At a door, Rapp sees someone. He thinks it might be a Russian but it is actually Andreas and he threatens him and that is the end of the chapter. I now understand why the point of view keeps switching and I think that it is a very good thing to do and it makes this story a lot more exciting. The action in this book is amazing and the suspense is KILLER. The way everything fits in like a puzzle is very nice as well. Overall, I'm starting to really like this book. That concludes Act of Treason Blog Part 3.

Act Of Treason Blog Part 2 (chapters 3-7)

In these chapters they had already hired a man named Mitch Rapp to find out stuff about the terrorist and he has a partner named Cindy. They go undercover at a restaurant and they fake a fight while observing a suspect there. Then it goes to a man named Ross, the vice president, and he is at a party and then the host asks him to follow him to a secret place and then it shifts back to another scene. This scene is a scene where Gazich, the terrorist, is actually bombing the car. It tells of how he hid behind a tree and how he wore a red hat etc. After that it shifts back to the scene with Ross. Ross goes witht he host into the host's sacred wine cellar and waiting for Ross is Cyrus Green, a man that Ross had hired for something not yet exposed in the book. They argue and Green decides that if Ross is going back on his word then Green will ruin his re-election somehow. This book is kind of hard to read with all of the sudden new characters and the switching between scenes, but it is very exciting and it's starting to be like a puzzle and the book is just showing some of the pieces. Somehow I think that every single one of these scenes have to do with eachother and they will all come together and make a interesting situation. Yes, and this Mitch Rapp guy seems like one of those I'm-good-at-everything-don't-mess-with-me-or-I'll-actually-kill-you type of guys. He actually seems to be very good at what he's doing but something seems to be bothering him. That concludes Act of Treason Blog part 2.

Quarter 2 Blog 1: Vince Flynn's Act of Treason Part 1 (chapters 1 and 2)

This time I am blogging about Vince Flynn's Act of Treason rather than a book that Mrs. Jarrett's daughter is reading. So far in the book, a terrorist attack on the president-elect Alexander fails. A terrorist sets a bomb under a vehicle which was thought to contain the president-elect but didn't and it blows up and kills the president-elect's wife instead. Later on, Agent Kennedy then discusses the national problem with another FBI agent by the name of McMahon. They discuss what had happened and why it might have occurred. Then a man by the name of Baker arrives and has privite business with McMahon. Kennedy leaves and Baker takes out an envelope. Then he pulls out some graphic pictures of Alexander's wife and one of her security guards and explains that this could completely ruin Alexander's chances of winning the election. Then Baker leaves, Kennedy comes in and talks to McMahon again. Then Kennedy suggests special agent Mitch Rapp for the case and the chapter ends. This book is EXTREMELY more exciting than Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The first two chapters already have me excited, unlike Harry Potter where you can already kind of tell what the next step is going to be. This kind of excitement is portaid by this quote, "Before Rivera could give it another thought, there was a thunderous explosion, the limousine started to rise in the air, and then everything went black." (Prelude, P. 26). Not only does this quote want to make you read about what comes up next, it also paints a vivid picture of an explosion of a car in your head. In all these movies you actually see a car blowing up, rising into the air and black smoke spewing everywhere. In other books I've read, explosions are dull like, "The car exploded and it caught on fire." Or "I saw the explosion of the car and the smoke went everywhere." Seriously. But so far Vince Flynn's style of writing has caught my attention and let's hope there's more of that later on in the book. That concludes Part 1 of my blog, come back next week for another one. Kohp Chai (That means thanks you in Lao).