![]() ![]() ![]() However, it cannot be helped that American Assassin is the twelfth book instead of the first and must be judged on its merits alone. There is no surprise about the outcome since several books show Rapp is an assassin of the first order and that lessens the impact and dulls the thrill. Flynn makes Rapp’s beginnings clear and, in doing so, lessens the impact and the thrill of what should have been his first book in his very successful series. Knowing where a story begins enriches and clarifies a character’s motives, and that is what I suppose Vince Flynn had in mind for Mitch Rapp in American Assassin. ![]() It is not certain Rapp will get his chance at taking out terrorists or be forced to find another way to make them pay. When he arrives for the first day at assassin camp, he faces down Hurley, the legendary assassin and trainer of would-be assassins, ending with his balls in the vise of Hurley’s powerful hands and the focus of a three-way battle to decide the direction in which the program will go. He has a grudge against terrorists and wants to make them pay for his fiancée’s death on Pan Am 103 in Scotland. in action and on the hunt."Ī thriller with murky beginnings and an ending like a spent balloon.Ī black ops group within the CIA has courted Mitch Rapp for two years and he is past ready for his new life: assassination. ![]()
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