Vince Flynn · 2010 · thriller

Vince Flynn's 2010 origin of Mitch Rapp. After his girlfriend dies in the Lockerbie bombing, the college athlete Rapp is recruited by the CIA and forged into a covert assassin. His first hunt for the men behind the attack leads him from a Virginia training camp to a first kill in Istanbul, across Europe, and into war-ravaged Beirut - where the hunter finds a trap waiting.

1. 1
   Virginia

   Consumed by grief after terrorists blow his girlfriend's airliner out of the sky over Lockerbie, Mitch Rapp is recruited into a deniable CIA unit and hardened, over six brutal months in the Virginia woods, into an assassin.

2. 2
   Istanbul

   For his first kill Rapp is sent to Istanbul, to the arms dealer who sold the explosives used in the bombing - a quiet, clinical hit that launches his career in the shadows.

3. 3
   Hamburg

   Working across Europe with Stan Hurley's team, Rapp leaves a trail of dead bankers and brokers who move terrorist money, learning the trade one target at a time.

4. 4
   Beirut

   All roads lead to war-ravaged Beirut and its warring militias, where the enemy already knows Rapp is coming - and the young hunter, walking into a prepared trap, must fight to become the assassin he was made to be.