Summary: This is a prequel in the ongoing Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn. The book starts off with Mitch going through his training in VA with the CIA. We see him take on his nemesis Stan Hurley, who may be his nemesis now but is really there to make Mitch see that what they are going to be doing is far from child's play. Mitch makes his way through training, becomes a CIA "assassin" and performs his first mission on his own 1 day before he supposed to. He gets in trouble with Irene Kennedy and Thomas Stansfield, but they ultimately decide that he did a good job, but to not do that again. Rapp, Hurley, and the other guy on the team Richards make there way to Beirut where an American hostage is being tortured for our country's secrets. the Russians are involved and may just pay handsomely for those secrets. Hurly and Richards are captured by terrorists and begin to torture the both, but they have met the're match with Hurley, who sadistically takes their punishment. Rapp goes undercover into Beirut to negotiate the release of all 3 of the hostages and ends up taking down everyone.
Thoughts: A fast paces insight into how Rapp became who he is and why he decides to join the CIA's most feared assassins. His girlfriend and members of is Syracuse University La Crosse team was on the fatal Pan Am flight in the 80's that crashed due to terrorism. Flynn is at his best here, going from one section of the story to another, until the end where the many sections of the story come to a crescendo which makes this prequel very satisfying.
Final Analysis: 9 out of 10 stars.
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