#1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn
returns with yet another explosive thriller, introducing the young
Mitch Rapp, as he takes on his first assignment.
Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought
of as a terrorist's worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed
and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a
gifted college athlete without a care in the world . . . and then
tragedy struck.
Two decades of cutthroat, partisan politics has left the CIA and
the country in an increasingly vulnerable position. Cold War
veteran and CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield knows he must
prepare his people for the next war. The rise of Islamic terrorism
is coming, and it needs to be met abroad before it reaches
America's shores. Stansfield directs his protégée, Irene Kennedy,
and his old Cold War colleague, Stan Hurley, to form a new group of
clandestine operatives who will work outside the normal chain of
command-men who do not exist.
What type of man is willing to kill for his country without
putting on a uniform? Kennedy finds him in the wake of the Pan Am
Lockerbie terrorist attack. Two-hundred and seventy souls perished
that cold December night, and thousands of family and friends were
left searching for comfort. Mitch Rapp was one of them, but he was
not interested in comfort. He wanted retribution.
Six months of intense training has prepared him to bring the war
to the enemy's doorstep, and he does so with brutal efficiency.
Rapp starts in Istanbul, where he assassinates the Turkish arms
dealer who sold the explosives used in the Pan Am attack. Rapp then
moves onto Hamburg with his team and across Europe, leaving a trail
of bodies. All roads lead to Beirut, though, and what Rapp doesn't
know is that the enemy is aware of his existence and has prepared a
trap. The hunter is about to become the hunted, and Rapp will need
every ounce of skill and cunning if he is to survive the
war-ravaged city and its various terrorist factions.
As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets,
Flynn's latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind
the steely gaze of the nation's ultimate hero
is a young man primed to become an American Assassin.
In the latest novel by the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Protectand Defend" and "Extreme Measures," Mitch Rapp takes on his first, explosivecounter-terrorism assignment.
