Bum Rapp

Back in 1989 I saw a hollywood film called Heathers in the cinema. A sort of a black comedy take on the standard hollywood teen film. Remembering what I can now, it was more warped hollywood filth. One line I remembered related to one teenage girl bitching about another’s apparently outdated look. She’s so ‘87

That line came to mind when I read a 2009 novel called In Pursuit of Honour which takes in ‘the war on terror.’ The hero is CIA man Mitch Rapp who comes across as a Jack Bauer clone hunting down the evil middle eastern terrorists.These guys are on the run in rural Iowa after taking part in an attack in Washington DC and get to kill an all American hunter and his son who stumble on them. It’s a poignant scene, the father howling over his son’s body before the enemies of freedom also cap his ass. And then they take out an elderly couple and hide in their house.

Rapp mainly hangs out in Washington and the author does his best to ignore the realities of the city, just hinting at a rough area that Rapp ventures near, without any implication as to why it is in that state.We’re treated instead to the brady bunch type family of Rapp’s partner, who’s beautiful daughter is kidnapped from their leafy suberb by the bad guys after they’ve completed their rampage through flyover country.

Rapp and his woman CIA boss are more interested in making disparaging offhand remarks about ‘ Hitler lovers’ aka domestic terrorists, than discussing the murder rate in DC. ‘ Hitler lovers’ are the kind of folks who apparently love their freedom too much. Oh and we’re supposed to emphatise with Rapp and his crew. They’re out there keeping us safe and we’re not very grateful apparently. Well maybe I’d be more grateful if the scum they work for didn’t wreck so much havoc on our countries with their ‘fiscal policies’ and their social engineering. How many of our people are terrorised in Western Europe and North America every day just because of the way they look, with Rapp’s overlords more likely to prosecute them than help them if they complain.

Anyway reading this novel this year, I was thinking that this is so 04. Writing this stuff in 2009 is like a guy still wearing flares in 1983. I mean is there anyone out there apart from those CJ clowns ( who have to be either disinfo agents are unbelievable fools )who will buy this pup any more. Its not that everyone has turned into ‘ Hitler lovers.’ Some things just glaringly do not add up. More glaringly than ever in 2011. Look at the new laws they’re trying to bring in now over in the land of the free. I actually saw that this guy’s latest effort is a prequel about a young Mitch twenty years ago. Smart move.