Forced to make a decision that will change his life forever, Rapp quits the CIA and assembles a group of independent contractors to help him complete the mission. The catch? America can’t be seen moving against an ally. He decides that the royalty needs to be sent a message and that Mitch Rapp is just the man to deliver it. When the king’s own nephew is discovered funding ISIS, the president suspects that the Saudis never intended to live up to their agreement. In return, King Faisal would promise to keep the oil flowing and deal with the conspirators in his midst. The evidence against the powerful Saudis who coordinated the attack would be buried. #2 – Enemy of the State (Kyle Mills)Īfter 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history. 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. There are scenes featuring Rapp and a psychologist that have the potential to flesh out Rapp’s character, during which Rapp has the opportunity to define patriotism, revenue, retribution, and more.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. Here, we get a Mitch Rapp prequel – essentially the story of how Rapp was trained and other events leading up to the Beruit Embassy bombing of 1983. Here’s our take on the best Vince Flynn novels: #1 – American Assassin The Rapp character was finally brought to big screen in 2017 with American Assassin, an adaption of Flynn’s bestselling novel of the same name.
His Mitch Rapp political thrillers are reliable best-sellers, and even after Flynn died far too young at age 47, the series continues through author Kyle Mills, who has done incredibly well with big shoes to fill.
Vince Flynn ushered in his counter-terrorism hero, Mitch Rapp, in the late 1990s and never looked back.
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