Genre: Thriller
Published: 1999
Personal rating: 5/5
Yearly count: 65
On a busy Washington morning, the stately calm of the White House is shattered as terrorists gain control of the executive mansion, slaughtering dozens of people. The president is evacuated to an underground bunker, but not before nearly one hundred hostages are taken. One man is sent in to take control of the crisis. Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism operative, determines that the president is not as safe as Washington's power elite had thought. Moving among the corridors of the White House, Rapp makes a chilling discovery that could rock Washington to its core: someone within his own government wants his rescue attempt to fail.
This is the first book where Mitch Rapp appears as a main character and boy, what a main character he is! The perfect hero for a series of thrillers about covert counterterrorism operations, Rapp is good at what he does, yet imperfect at the same time. I fell in love with this character right from the first page he appeared.
Other than a great main character, this book has a lot of things going for it. A great plot, good, fast-paced writing and an explosive ending that wrapped things up quite nicely. But above all this plot was believable in a way that was absolutely chilling, because if something like this ever happened in real life – and it could, unfortunately – we sadly don’t have a Mitch Rapp to call upon to save the day. All in all this was a great book that I highly recommend!
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