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In a night of shattering brutality, three of Washington's most powerful and unscrupulous politicians have been executed with surgical precision. Their assassins, vanishing without a trace, have delivered a shocking ultimatum to the leaders of the American government: set aside petty, partisan politics and restore power to the people, or be held to deadly account. No one, they warn, is out of their reach - not even the president. A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals that the killers are stealth experts, elite military commandos with the proven capacity to penetrate the tightest security and neutralize any target. But no one knows exactly who they are or when they will strike next. Only Michael O'Rourke, a former U.S. Marine and freshman congressman, holds a clue to the violence: a haunting incident in his own past with explosive implications for his country's future. Compelled by his memories and by his sense of honor, O'Rourke confides in the one woman he trusts, crusading journalist Liz Scarlatti, only to uncover hidden land mines of corruption and murder among the highest ranks of leadership. But as the casualties continue to mount, O'Rourke and Scarlatti make a terrifying discovery - an appalling truth that the American people can never know if the nation is to survive.
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Donnacha Rourke
reviewed Term Limits on May 17, 2011
Term Limits
The pace and plot of this political thriller were, well, thrilling. The intricate details of the various reconnaissance and other operations were fascinating and kept me absorbed throughout.
Yet, at the end of the book, I felt saddened that the book so clearly promotes the idea that it is acceptable for a tiny handful of self-righteous and narrow-minded individuals to take a democratically-elected government hostage by murdering congressmen and senators in order to force the government to implement their ideas, then justifies the violence by saying that the politicians were corrupt and pointing out that America was founded in a bloody revolution.
I can accept books with main characters who have different motives, beliefs and values from mine, and who might do things I would consider depraved. After all, literature gives authors and readers the chance to explore the dark side of humanity safely, and I like exploring viewpoints other than my own.
But in genre fiction like this, I expect that the good guys, while flawed, will at least genuinely BE good guys. In this book, neither the good guys or the bad guys are moral - the only difference between the "good guys" and the "bad guys" was that the "good guys" actually convinced themselves they had honor and integrity, when what they really had was megalomania.
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