That's a Rapp

I just read BALANCE OF POWER, a military thriller by Vince Flynn involving a terrorist takeover of the White House. I'm pretty willing to escape into fiction, yet I know part of me--American and New Yorker--has had his fill of fictional terrorists for the time being.

That said, the book's start was promising, featuring instead of a superhero, a man whose work was driving him to decay. Somewhere along the line, as the main villain became a cutout and the hero played out Die Hard in the White House, I hyperextended suspension of disbelief.

Then again, I'm a fan of "JAG" and "NCIS," two shows repeatedly bashed for unrealism. Maybe that's the key. JAG's hero is named Harmon Rabb. Is Flynn's hero--Mitch Rapp--a Bizarro clone? Hmm...