American Assassin
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (855 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0046XYGIO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 477 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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 commandmen who do not exist. 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. Six months of intense training has prepared him to bring the war to the enemy's doorstep, and he does so with brutal efficiency. 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.. Rapp then moves onto Hamburg with his team and across Europe, leaving a trail of bodies. Mitch Rapp was one of them, but he was not interested in comfort. Two decades of cutthroat, partisan politics has left the CIA and the country in an increasingly vulnerable position. He wanted retribution. All roads lead to Beirut, though, and what Rapp doesnt know is that the enemy is aware of his existence and has prepared a tr
"Action and adventure worth the read!" according to D B. While awaiting the next David Balducci book, I read this author's first book, Term Limits , and was immediately hooked! American Assassin is the first in the series for the character, Mitch Rapp, and starts at the beginning of his career in the spy world. The story holds your interest and I was sad when I finished the book. For me, that's always the sign of a good book, when you don't want it to end. I have since read next book in the series for Mitch Rapp titled, Kill Shot, also excellent. I woul. I’m a Mitch Rapp fan and preconditioned to enjoy learning how it all began, but this wasn’t the best in the series. Patrick McHugh The Mitch Rapp series first appeared on bookshelves in 1999 with the release of Transfer of Power. Most appropriately, that tale of America’s most skilled terrorist hunter began in media res and continued unabated for ten episodes. But then, based on reader urging, the author decided to go back in time and write two prequels to the original entry. And thus we now have American Assassin as the “new” first episode, and Kill Shot as the “new” second episode, pushing Tran. El Guapo said Meh. This book is my first read in the Mitch Rapp series. I'm a bit disappointed. The character development just is not terribly deep. There are good bones on the characters, just really not much meat. Tons of cliche - like the young badass rule-breaker butting heads with the aging mentor because the former reminds the latter of himself Blah. In novels, I don't necessarily mind hopping from one scenario to another, but it doesn't work well when an author stops in the middle of a high-action or highly c