
THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER When a spike in CIA intelligence suggests a major terrorist attack planned for Memorial Day the president orders Mitch Rapp his top counterterrorism operative to pull out all the stops Rapp immediately leaves for Afghanistan where he leads the ultra secret counterterrorism Special Forces unit on a daring commando raid across the border into Northern Pakistan Their target an al-Qaeda stronghold Within a subterranean room Rapp & his team discover a treasure trove of maps computers files & bills of lading for multiple freighters heading to US ports
- all pointing to plans for a catastrophic attack on Washington DC Information is quickly relayed back to CIA headquarters andin a few hours the freighters have been located & the danger averted Or has it? To Mitch Rapp the whole operation seemed just a bit too easy Following his instincts on a quest to unearth the whole truth Rapp makes a truly terrifying discovery
- & with Memorial Day closing fast he must find a way to prevent a disaster of unimaginable proportions AMERICAN ASSASSIN book one in the series is soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Dylan O' Brien (Maze Runner) Taylor Kitsch (True Detective) & Michael Keaton Praise for the Mitch Rapp series ' Sizzles with inside information & CIA secrets' Dan Brown 'A cracking uncompromising yarn that literally takes no prisoners' The Times ' Vince Flynn clearly has one eye on Lee Child's action thriller throne with this twist-laden story instantly gripping' Shortlist ' Action-packed in-your-face adrenalin-pumped super-hero macho escapist fiction that does exactly what it says on the label' Irish Independent ' Mitch Rapp is a great character who always leaves the bad guys either very sorry for themselves or very dead' Guardian