Hurley, who appears in several of the Mitch Rapp novels, decides to give Rapp very special attention to assure Rapp drops out of the training. In American Assassin the CIA (Irene Kennedy and her boss Thomas Stansfield) recruit Mitch Rapp straight out of college and turn over his training to old, crusty CIA operative Stan Hurley despite Hurley's objections.
Vince Flynn said on many occasions that Stan Hurley is his favorite character he created. Audible's Mitch Rapp page has the books in the correct order to read.
It is definitely the first that should be read by anyone new to the Mitch Rapp series.
The "first" novel in the Mitch Rapp seriesĪmerican Assassin is the 11th of Vince Flynn's 13 Mitch Rapp books in order written, but it is the first the chronological order of Mitch Rapp's life. Includes the first chapter from Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills' latest thriller, Enemy of the State! 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. 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. Rapp then moves on to Hamburg with his team and across Europe, leaving a trail of bodies. Rapp starts in Istanbul, where he assassinates the Turkish arms dealer who sold the explosives used in the Pan Am attack. Six months of intense training has prepared him to bring the war to the enemy's doorstep, and he does so with brutal efficiency. Mitch Rapp was one of them, but he was not interested in comfort. Two-hundred and seventy souls perished that cold December night, and thousands of family and friends were left searching for comfort. 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. 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.
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. Before 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.and then tragedy struck.
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