THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER On a busy Washington morning amid the shuffle of tourists & the brisk rush of government officials the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire A group of terrorists has descended on the Executive Mansion & gained access by means of a violent massacre that has left dozens of innocent bystanders murdered Through the quick actions of the Secret Service the president is evacuated to his underground bunker
- but not before almost one hundred hostages are taken While the politicians & the military leaders argue over how to negotiate with the terrorists one man is sent to break through the barrage of panicked responses & political agendas surrounding the crisis Mitch Rapp the CIA's top counterterrorism agent makes his way into the White House & soon discovers that the president is not as safe as Washington's power elite had thought & in a race against time he makes a chilling discovery that could determine the fate of America
- & realizes that the terrorist attack is only the beginning of a master scheme to undermine an entire nation 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