Flynn followed up his epic smash hit with nine more novels, all centered around Rapp and his many heroic efforts, before penning this prequel (and, eventually, another) to his popular franchise. Vince Flynn’s first Rapp novel was Transfer of Power, published in 1999, and featured a thirty-one-year-old Mitch Rapp.

American Assassin takes us back to the beginning of Rapp’s career, telling the story of how a young man fresh out of college begins the process of becoming America’s most lethal and effective counterterrorism weapon.

Behind the steely gaze of the nation’s ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin. 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.Īs action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynn’s latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. 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. Rapp then moves onto Hamburg with his team and across Europe, leaving a trail of bodies. Rapp starts in Istanbul, where he assassinates the Turkish arms dealer who sold the explosives used in the Pan Am attack. Six months of intense training has prepared him to bring the war to the enemy’s doorstep, and he does so with brutal efficiency. Mitch Rapp was one of them, but he was not interested in comfort. Two-hundred and seventy souls perished that cold December night, and thousands of family and friends were left searching for comfort. 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.

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. The rise of Islamic terrorism is coming, and it needs to be met abroad before it reaches America’s shores. Cold War veteran and CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield knows he must prepare his people for the next war. Two decades of cutthroat, partisan politics has left the CIA and the country in an increasingly vulnerable position. #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.īefore 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.

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