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Mitch Rapp is used to winning. But in this follow-up to number-one New York Times best-selling The Survivor, the CIA operative finds himself chasing false leads from continent to continent in an effort to keep Pakistani nukes from falling into the hands of terrorists. Together with friend and colleague Scott Coleman, Rapp struggles to prevent the loss of these lethal weapons, particularly because Russia is also interested in the nukes, though not for the same reason as Rapp and Coleman.

Top-secret data has been stolen from the CIA, and the only man who knows its hiding place is dead. CIA operative Mitch Rapp must race to find the classified information in this blistering novel that picks up where The Last Man left off in Vince Flynn's New York Times best-selling series.

For years, Mitch Rapp's bold actions have saved the lives of countless Americans. His battles for peace and freedom have made him a hero to many, and an enemy to countless more. In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America's allies, who want to see Mitch Rapp eliminated. They have decided the time has come.

For months, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians becomes increasingly clear. He is given his next target: a plump Libyan diplomat who is prone to drink and is currently in Paris without a single bodyguard. Rapp finds him completely unprotected and asleep in his bed. With confidence in his well-honed skills and conviction of the man’s guilt, he easily sends a bullet into the man’s skull. But in the split second it takes the bullet to leave the silenced pistol, everything changes.

Mitch Rapp owes powerful criminal Damian Losa a favour, and it’s being called in. With no choice other than to honour his agreement, Rapp heads to Syria to stop a new designer drug spreading into Losa’s territory. When he discovers the true culprit – someone with far bigger goals than just Syria – the scale of his mission grows. But Rapp and his team are operating in an incredibly volatile country where the US has few assets and allegiances shift almost daily. And just one false move would set off an international confrontation that could easily spin out of control and rewrite the world order.

The action begins in the heart of Iran, where billions of dollars are being spent on the development of a nuclear program. No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its neighboring enemy, Israel launches a creative and daring operation that leaves a radioactive tomb in the middle of Iran's second largest city. An outraged Iranian government publicly blames both Israel and the United States and demands retribution.

A group of terrorists invades the White House, driving the president into an underground bunker, where he can't communicate with his government. Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counter-terrorist operative, sneaks into the executive mansion to take control and finds that the terrorists are the least of the president's and the nation's problems.

2011. On a remote mountaintop overlooking the remains of the Iranian nuclear weapons programme, Azad Ashani witnesses a Quds Force demonstration of a capability meant to upend America’s war in the Middle East. Ashani, director of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security and Irene Kennedy’s former back channel to the Iranian government, recognises the demonstration’s true significance and the nation-ending conflict it will provoke.

Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor—especially when it’s the world’s most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor-bound to answer. The Syrian government appears to have created a highly addictive new narcotic that it plans to distribute throughout Europe. It’s a major threat to Losa’s business and he’s determined to send someone to keep him on top by any means necessary. Rapp is the perfect choice for the mission. Not only does he have extensive experience operating in the Middle East, he’s also entirely expendable.

After a blackout swept the nation, America is resuming life as normal with a new president, one unlike any Mitch Rapp has worked with in the past. As Rapp backs away, the new president, in turn, questions his loyalty. Rapp decides to take a much-needed break. But when it’s discovered that a mole in the CIA has been digging into their systems for information on Nicholas Ward, the world’s first trillionaire and the man personally overseeing cutting-edge medical research in Uganda, he is pulled back onto the job.

The head of ISIS, Sayid Halabi, survived Mitch Rapp’s attack on him, but while he convalesced, he plotted. Once healed, Halabi kidnaps a brilliant Yemeni microbiologist and forces him to produce anthrax. ISIS releases videos of his progress and uses them to stir up hysteria in the States in the midst of an extremely divisive presidential election. ISIS contracts with a Mexican drug cartel to smuggle the anthrax into the US, but the anthrax is really just a feint....

US-Präsident Anthony Cook fühlt sich von Mitch Rapp, Amerikas mächtigster Waffe gegen den Terror, persönlich bedroht. Ein Deal wird eingefädelt: Rapp verlässt das Land, solange Cook im Amt ist, im Gegenzug verzichtet dieser auf Maßnahmen gegen ihn.

Mitch Rapp captures ISIS’s top technology expert, who reveals that he was due to meet a man who insists he can take down the entire US power grid. But Rapp’s operation to seize this man fails when his target evades the trap, and then ISIS operatives help the man do what he said he would - plunge the whole of America into darkness. With no understanding of how this unprecedented act was accomplished, the task of getting the power back on could take months. Perhaps even years.

Beim russischen Präsidenten wird ein unheilbarer Hirntumor diagnostiziert. Statt seinen Rücktritt zu erklären, klammert er sich verzweifelt an die Macht. Zu Anfang begnügt er sich damit, seine Gegner töten zu lassen, doch als sich sein Gesundheitszustand verschlimmert, greift er zu drastischeren Mitteln: Er erklärt dem Westen den Krieg.

Im Dezember 1988 kommen beim Lockerbie-Bombenanschlag alle 259 Passagiere einer Boeing 747 ums Leben, darunter auch Maureen, die Verlobte des US-Collegestudenten Mitch Rapp. Ein Jahr nach ihrem Tod wird Mitch von der CIA rekrutiert und schließt sich dem geheimen Orion-Team an, das gegen den weltweiten Terror in den Kampf zieht. An Krisenherden in Europa, im Nahen Osten und Asien bewältigt er den Verlust seiner großen Liebe und sucht nach einem neuen Sinn für sein Leben.

Islamisten wollen die Einweihung einer Gedenkstätte in Washington für ein Attentat auf den US-Präsidenten und ausländische Staatschefs nutzen. Deshalb schickt die CIA Terrorspezialist Mitch Rapp nach Afghanistan. Dort bereiten Milizen von Al-Qaida in einem abgelegenen Grenzdorf den Angriff vor. Doch Rapp kommt zu spät und erfährt die schreckliche Wahrheit: Eine Atombombe befindet sich auf dem Weg in die Vereinigten Staaten.

Nach einer gewaltigen Explosion in einer Atomanlage steht das milliardenschwere Nuklearprogramm des Iran vor dem Aus. Für Präsident Amatullah kann es nur einen Schuldigen geben: Amerika. Die USA müssen den Anschlag verübt haben. Er fordert Blut und Vergeltung. Antiterror-Agent Mitch Rapp nimmt die Suche nach den wahren Verantwortlichen auf. Da kommt es bei einem informellen Treffen zwischen der CIA-Chefin Irene Kennedy und ihrem iranischen Amtskollegen zu einem fatalen Zwischenfall. Sie fällt in die Hände von Terroristen.

Mitch Rapp, Amerikas kompromisslosester Agent, stößt bei einer Auseinandersetzung mit dem pakistanischen Geheimdienst an seine Grenzen. Von falschen Spuren in die Irre geführt, hetzt er mit seinem Partner Scott Coleman von Kontinent zu Kontinent, um zu verhindern, dass das Atomwaffenarsenal des iranischen Nachbarstaats in die Hände von Terroristen gelangt.

Bei einer Serie terroristischer Anschläge in Washington kommen 185 Menschen ums Leben, darunter zahlreiche Regierungsmitarbeiter und CIA-Angestellte. Extreme Gewalt erfordert extreme Gegenmaßnahmen - und so zieht Anti-Terror-Kämpfer Mitch Rapp erneut in den Krieg gegen den Terror. Doch als er glaubt, die Verantwortlichen in die Falle gelockt zu haben, fallen plötzlich Schüsse in unmittelbarer Nähe des Weißen Hauses. Vince Flynn einer der meistverkauften Action-Thriller-Autoren weltweit.

Der Irak lässt mit Hilfe von Nordkorea nukleare Sprengköpfe in einem unterirdischen Bunker produzieren. Zumindest laut den Informationen, die Israel den Vereinigten Staaten zuspielt. Mitch Rapp taucht in die Straßen von Bagdad ab, um den drohenden Atomkrieg abzuwenden. Ärger droht auch vor der eigenen Haustür: Politiker boykottieren mit allen Mitteln die Ernennung von Irene Kennedy zur neuen CIA-Chefin. Sie wollen den Geheimdienst entmachten und ihre Interessen vorantreiben. Privat steht Mitch nach einer Begegnung mit der Vergangenheit ebenfalls vor einem Scherbenhaufen.