Point of View

Executive Power is written in the third person point of view with the author, Vince Flynn, acting as the narrator. This allows him to provide the necessary background details that the reader needs. It also allows the author to develop and tell the story of the novel and it is the best approach that the author can take in a novel of this type. This approach avoids the limitations of the first person approach where the knowledge of the reader is limited to the knowledge of the story teller. The use of the third person allows the author to provide the reader with much more information about events that involve the different characters. There is plenty of dialogue and interaction between the characters for the reader to become familiar with them, and the third person approach allows the reader to form their own opinions regarding the...