Since I commute an hour each way every day I get a chance to listen to lots of books on tape/CDs.
Of the many genres, I often listen to techno thrillers/spy novel like Tom Clancy etc. After awhile, one can kind of predict what is going to happen. One also has to get used to things in these books that make no sense or are rather contrived. Here is an example.
Spoiler Alert!!!
In Tom Clancy's book Tale of the Tiger, former President Jack Ryan's son, Jack Jr. who is just out of college and 23 years old stumbles across a private investment firm that unbeknownest to him, is in reality a secret private intelligence agency set up by him father to track down and kill terrorists. This organization happens to be tracking the money of a suspected terrorist organization.
At the same time, this agency, which is illegaly tapping into CIA, FBI, NSA information is recruiting two guys to act as assassins. One guy is a Marine Corp Recon Unit Officer just back from Afganistan and the other is an FBI agent who just caught and killed a child rapist/murderer. Of course these guys happen to be brothers and also happen to be cousins to Jack Jr.
Hey, it could happen.
These guys don't know their cousin(s) are involved and none know that their father/uncle/former president is involved.
So about the same time, these arab terrorists slip into the US and disperse across the country to attack shopping malls. One of these malls happens to be in Virginia where the two cousins happen to be shopping while waiting for a collegue during a surveillance training exercise. These 4 terrorists start shooting up the mall and are in turn taken out by the two brothers.
So about the same time. Jack Jr. is hired by this organization, because they don't want him telling his father what they really do, even though he doesn't know his father is involved. Anyway Jack Jr. fresh out of college discovers a connection between the shopping mall terrorists and the money laundering terrorists that was missed by all the senior intelligence analysts who work there also.
They send Jack's cousins to Europe to wack the terrorist money men, but of course Jack Jr. doesn't know his cousins are the hit men.
The cousins go to Europe as a team and very reminisance of the movie The Sword of Gideon/Munich, they track down and wack the sponsors one by one.
However, the organization loses track of the cousins and has to send someone to deliver information to them for their next hit. Imagine the surprize when Jack Jr. shows up in europe and gets room in hotel that just happens to be next to the terrorist mark.
Jack then finds out the hit men are his cousins and they find out Jack is the info guy. They all go out for a beer and have a nice reunion.
Did I mention the the boys are using a new, secret poison that is undetectable? The sneak up on the bad guy and stick him with a needle, he goes down with a massive heart attack.
Anyway, the boys screw up the hit and Jack Jr. steps in and wacks the terrorist. The world is saved and Clancy is ripe for another mega novel of the ongoing adventures of Jack the terrorist killer.