Genre: Thriller
Published: 2000
Personal rating: 4/5
Yearly count: 67
Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism operative, is sent on his final mission, to eliminate a European industrialist who has been selling sensitive equipment to one of terrorism's most notorious sponsors. But he doesn't know that the ultimate target of this mission is himself. Set up by forces within the US who do not want the next Director-elect of the CIA to take over, and therefore need a disaster for the present regime, Mitch refuses to die... the conspirators have made an awful miscalculation. They have enraged one of the most lethal and efficient killers the CIA has ever produced. Now they will pay.
This book has an explosive start and from there on it’s a thrilling ride as Mitch Rapp is on the run, unsure of who he can trust – if he can trust anyone at all. Written in the same style as the previous book Vince Flynn draws the reader into the plot with multiple threads that all converge. But where Transfer of Power kept the same break-neck pace until the end, this book did not. The last 150 pages or so the pace slowed down, which I thought was a pity.
Still, despite that, this book was a good one and although this particular case is closed there’s a loose thread which I assume will become the main plot of the next book. I’d still recommend this book, if only because Mitch Rapp and his reactions were outstanding in this one.
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