Total Power (Mitch Rapp Book 19) by Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills

Kindle Edition

I'm a total Mitch Rapp fan. I'm always so excited to read the next book to see what Mitch gets into next. And I'm always sad when I finish it so fast and have to wait until who knows when until the next one comes out. I'm (thankfully?) a bit behind on these and there are a few more out currently so I won't have to wait quite so long for the next one.

I started this book on May 7 and finished it on May 11.

I love these books. Some of them seem a little too real and I wonder in the back of my mind if they give bad guys too many ideas of bad things to do. Do bad guys read these books? Maybe.

This one has to do with the power grid in America and a plot to take it down. Not for a day or two. Or even a week or two. But take the whole thing down. Period. For a year or more. This bad person has the knowledge and access to do it. And he's attempting to find the highest bidder (or any bidder) to lend support / take the lead to do this.

In typical government fashion, the red tape, the bureaucracy, the ancient technology, the dispersed systems, the bickering politicians, the too-many-to-number agencies involved all lend to the chaos and inability to really do anything. This seems about right and based in reality.

Enter Mitch Rapp. He can do something. And he does something.

This is a fast read. I usually read before falling asleep, but with any of these books, instead of helping me get to sleep, they amp me up and make me want to read all night to see what happens. I notice I get anxious, my heart-rate increases, I try to read faster and faster to get to the next thing that happens in the book. But I don't care. I love these books.

  Post written on May 25. Publication date reflects date I finished the book.