2002

Rancorous political infighting surrounds the selection of a successor to the dying head of the CIA just as Mitch Rapp, the agency's top operative, embarks on a dangerous mission to take out a well-known German industrialist believed to be supplying Middle East terrorists with highly sensitive equipment critical to constructing a nuclear bomb. When Rapp's ultimately successful mission is compromised from within, ailing CIA director Thomas Stansfield puts his imprimatur on the efforts of his chosen successor, Irene Kennedy, director of the agency's Counterterrorism Center, to identify the powerful interests both inside and outside the agency that wanted Rapp to fail.

The motive soon becomes clear; there are people who'll stop at nothing to remove Kennedy from the helm of the agency after Stansfield dies. One thing they didn't count on was Rapp's survival, and now he's a lethal weapon whose sights are fixed directly on the most powerful among them. This is a strong, swift thriller, a bit predictable (the senator in the black hat has dogs named Caesar and Brutus) but nonetheless involving. Author Vince Flynn sustains the dramatic tension from the opening paragraph to the last; in Mitch Rapp, he's got the makings of a promising series hero. ( )

Mitch Rapp, secret cia operative, black ops. Another guy who operates above or below the law. ( )

This fast paced thriller starts with Mitch Rapp and a couple planning and carrying out the assassination of Count Hagenmiller of Germany for the CIA in a covert operation. Hagenmiller's companies had been selling to known terrorists and the German government had done nothing more than slaps on the wrists. The Hoffmans (later, the Jansens) and Mitch Rapp make it inside the estate and mansion and Rapp takes out the Count but the Hoffmans turn on him and shoot Mitch point blank in the chest and leave him there. Fortunately for him, he is wearing body armor and is not killed. He makes it out of the country but then comes gunning for his old friends, Dr. Irene Kennedy and Director Thomas Stansfield thinking that they sold him out since the operation was supersecret. They convince him that they didn't do it, so who did? Who is maneuvering behind the scenes to have the dying Director Stansfield replaced with their very own puppet? Will Mitch be able to stop them and save his girlfriend Anna Reill? You have to read this adventure laden book to find out! Another good read. ( )

Does this stuff happen in real life