AMERICAN ASSASSIN
By Vince Flynn
"Sizzles
with inside information and CIA secrets" - Dan Brown
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 super agent, 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 protégé,
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.
'American
Assassin' is available now.
