Now a major motion picture

#1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn presents the youthful Mitch Rapp as he assumes his first covert assignment.

Mitch Rapp was a gifted university athlete with out a treatment in the globe…and then tragedy struck. Terrorists attacked innocent Americans, and Rapp’s partner was among the murdered. 2 hundred and seventy souls perished on that chilly December night, and thousands of family and friends were left looking for ease and comfort. Mitch Rapp was one of about American Assassin them, but he was not interested in comfort and ease. Now he desires retribution.

2 decades of cutthroat partisan politics have gone the CIA and the country in an progressively vulnerable position. Frosty War veteran CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield understands he must prepare his people for the next war. America must confront Islamic terrorism with full force. Stansfield directs his protégée, Irene Kennedy, and his previous Cold War colleague, Stan Hurley, to create a brand new group of clandestine operatives who will work outside the normal string of command-men who do not exist.

What type of man is ready to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Six months of intense teaching have prepared him to consider the war towards the enemy’s doorstep, and he does therefore with brutal effectiveness. Rapp begins in Istanbul, where he assassinates the Turkish arms dealer who sold the explosives used in the terrorist strike. Rapp then moves on to Hamburg with his team and across European countries, leaving a path of bodies. All roads lead to Beirut, though, and what Rapp doesn’t understand would be that the foe is aware of his lifestyle and has prepared a snare. The hunter is about to end up being the hunted, and Rapp will require every ounce of skill and cunning if he is to survive the war-ravaged town and its several terrorist factions.

Behind the steely gaze of the country’s ultimate hero is definitely a young man primed to become an American assassin.