Continuing the trend I set with Robert B. Parker's Spenser series (wherein I read the 34th book first) is the 9th book in the Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn (and the first I've read).
I'm not quite finished with it but at a hair past the 3/4 mark I'm going to go out on a limb and make it part of my Recommended Reading list.
It reminds me a great deal of the early Jack Ryan novels by Tom Clancy, you know the ones before he started to dive way too deep into technical explanations (was I alone in being mildly vexed by the page after page devoted to the atomic detonation in Sum of All Fears?) and focused more on the "kick-assed-ness" of the Jack Ryan character. Not that I'm knocking Clancy's books, they were far and away my favorite thrillers growing up and maybe that's why I'm enjoying this book so much.
Mitch Rapp, Flynn's main character, reminds me so much of Ryan but is different enough to stand alone as one of the best espionage/thriller protagonists of all time.
If you like this genre, I can almost guarantee you'll enjoy this book.
