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Book Review of American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, Bk 1)

American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, Bk 1)
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DONT'T MISS THIS ONE. Book 1 written after book 12.

Before he was considered a CIA superagent, 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 Americas 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 commandmen 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.

As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynns latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind the steely gaze of the nations ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin.