Mitch Rapp
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Mitch Rapp is a fictional character
in a series of novels by Vince Flynn
and in the planned film adaptation of what was to be Consent to Kill, but now changed to American Assassin.http://www.movierewind.com/2011/new-mitch-rapp-movie/ The character first appeared in ISBN 0-671-02319-5 Transfer of Power and in the 11 subsequent novels by Vince Flynn.
operative employed, first unofficially then officially, by the CIA
. The primary focus of the character is thwarting Middle Eastern terrorist attacks on the United States and he is presented as an aggressive operative who is willing to take measures that are more extreme than might be considered commonly acceptable.
with Rapp, was killed in the December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
. She had been one of thirty-five Syracuse students returning from a semester overseas. One year later he was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency by Irene Kennedy.
ic terrorists.
.
, where he majored in international business
and minored in French
. He attended the college on a lacrosse
scholarship and was an All-American. Rapp was also offered a scholarship by the University of North Carolina
, but turned that one down because his high school sweetheart Maureen (Mary in American Assassin) "the Dream" Eliot was attending Syracuse with the hope of getting into broadcasting
. Maureen, whom Rapp had known since he was fifteen years old, was killed in the December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
. She had been one of thirty-five Syracuse students returning from a semester overseas.
Nearly a year after Maureen's death, Rapp was recruited into the CIA
by Irene Kennedy. He began training the week after graduating from Syracuse. Only twenty-three years old at the time, Rapp did not go through the standard CIA training program at "The Farm
," outside Williamsburg, Virginia
. Instead, for a year straight he was shuttled from one location to the next, sometimes spending a week, sometimes a month. The bulk of the training was handled by Stan Hurley, a former CIA operative, who taught him "how to shoot, stab, blow things up, and even kill with his bare hands." In other words, he was schooled in firearms and marksmanship, hand to hand combat, and explosives. Endurance was stressed. There were long swims and even longer runs. Between all the heavy lifting, they worked on his foreign language skills. Since he had minored in French at Syracuse, within a month at the CIA he was fluent in the language. He was then taught Arabic and Persian
and can passably speak Urdu
and Pashto
. He also speaks Spanish and Italian. He is ambidextrous, but naturally left-handed.
Rapp then became an operative of the Orion Team, a highly secretive organization supported by the CIA but outside the Agency. It is funded by money that has been diverted out of congressionally
funded programs. The job of the Orion Team in a nutshell is to take the war to the terrorists. It was formed in response to the Lockerbie disaster by the then CIA director of operations Thomas Stansfield. The unit operates in secret, independent of the U.S. national security apparatus and circumvents the leviathan
of politics and gets around small impediments like the executive order banning assassinations. The team is headed by Rapp's recruiter, Irene Kennedy, whose official role is as director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center
.
Rapp has been the Orion Team's star operative almost from the day he started and has been honed into the most effective counterterrorism operative in America's
arsenal. He's spent significant amounts of time in Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia collecting intelligence
and when the situation called for it, dealing with threats in a more final manner.
Officially, Rapp has nothing to do with the U.S. government; rather, he is referred to in the business as a private contractor. Rapp lives a life completely separate from the Agency. His cover is that of a successful entrepreneur
. With the help of the CIA, he runs a small computer consulting business on the side that just happens to do a fair amount of international business, which gives him the cover to travel frequently. To keep things legitimate, Rapp often does indeed conduct business while abroad.
One of Rapp's aliases is Mitch Kruse. In the special ops community he is often known only by his call sign, "Iron Man" after the annual Ironman Triathlon
in which he has participated on several occasions and has twice won. His only remaining family is his brother, Steven Rapp, a millionaire financial genius. Mitch and Steven grew up in McLean, Virginia
.
Throughout the books, Rapp works with several special operations
units including Navy SEALs and DEVGRU, Delta Force
, Air Force Special Operations Command
, the FBI Hostage Rescue Team, and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)
. He also has close ties with "SEAL Demolition and Salvage Corporation," a private military company
specializing in underwater salvage such as getting rid of debris for ports and shipyards and training law enforcement divers, but whose employees also work from time to time as freelance operatives for the CIA. The company is owned and operated by Scott Coleman, former commanding officer of SEAL Team Six and friend of Rapp.
ic terrorists have taken over the White House. The President
is safely evacuated to a bunker inside the White House. Things are not always as they seem; it is soon learned that his safety is in jeopardy, and over 70 hostages are still inside. The clock is ticking in favor of the terrorist, and if nothing is done soon the President and the hostages will be lost. CIA operative Mitch Rapp is tasked to observe from the inside and act if necessary. However, he quickly finds that in Washington
, nothing is as simple as it seems, for there are people who are willing to use the hostages as pawns in their power struggle, and pawns can be sacrificed.
The Third Option
(2001) -- Beyond diplomacy and military intervention, there is the third option. Sinister forces wish to discredit the existing CIA chief and deputy chief as a part of a power struggle. Their perfect plan: set up top CIA operative Mitch Rapp on a "third option" mission to fail, and let Rapp take the blame. Their only mistake: they picked the wrong man to betray... Rapp goes on a mission that he has no plan in failing.
Separation of Power
(2002) -- Dr. Irene Kennedy, now head of the CIA, has many enemies, and those enemies wish to destroy both her and the President in a daring plot. In the Middle East, Saddam Hussein
is developing a nuke
, and Israel
vows to launch a preemptive strike
if the nuke is ever completed. Can CIA Operative Mitch Rapp destroy Saddam's plans before the Middle East is plunged into war while unraveling the sinister plots developing at home... in only 2 weeks?
Executive Power
(2003) -- A disgruntled congressman has destroyed Mitch Rapp's CIA operative career by outing him on national TV, and marking him for death by almost every terrorist who owns a television. Now Mitch Rapp must adjust to a new life as a CIA analyst/adviser, while attempting to plug a leak in the State Department
that led to an ambush of a US Navy SEAL team in the Philippines
. But in the shadows looms a madman and his assassin, ready to ignite another world war, and Mitch Rapp is the only one in their way.
Memorial Day
(2004) -- Mitch Rapp leads a daring raid on an Al Qaeda stronghold on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and reveals the unthinkable: Al Qaeda has obtained a nuke, and the target is Washington D.C., on Memorial Day
. As the government debates on a course of action, Mitch Rapp is chasing leads and suspects across the globe. When the nuclear material is intercepted, everyone breaths a sigh of relief, but Mitch Rapp can't help but think... what if there is more than one?
Consent to Kill
(2005) -- A Saudi
billionaire vows vengeance on Mitch Rapp after his son was killed by Rapp for the plot to nuke Washington D.C.. However, he's not the only one who wishes to see Mitch Rapp gone. For Rapp has made too many enemies in his effort to save the nation from Armageddon. This time, the international conspiracy may be bigger than even Rapp's ability to unravel...and the consequences could be devastating.
. Rapp, still mourning the terrible loss of his wife and unborn child he suffered in "Consent to Kill", must work to save the nation from corruption and evil once more.
It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his trusted team member, Mike Nash. Now that the initial shock of the catastrophe is over, key Washington officials are up in arms over whether to make friends or foes of the agents who stepped between the enemy's bullets and countless American lives regardless of the legal consequences.
Not for the first time, Rapp finds himself in the frustrating position of having to illustrate the realities of national security to politicians whose view from the sidelines is inevitably obstructed.
Meanwhile, three of the al Qaeda terrorists are still at large, and Rapp has been unofficially ordered to find them by any means necessary.
No one knows the personal, physical, and emotional sacrifices required of the job better than Rapp. When he sees Nash cracking under the pressure of the mission and the memories of the horrors he witnessed during the terrorist attack, he makes a call he hopes will save his friend, assuage the naysayers on Capitol Hill, and get him one step closer to the enemy before it's too late.
the doors are open for his recruitment.
This novel reveals Rapp's early years and follows the formation of a new group of clandestine operatives headed by Irene Kennedy as they seek to stem the rise of Islamic terrorism before it reaches American shores.
. Consent to Kill will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura
and Nick Wechsler
; the screen play was written by Jonathan Lemkin
. The studio's last few films have performed poorly causing them to delay the production of this film. Antoine Fuqua
has been listed as the director with several names being rumored to play Mitch Rapp including Gerard Butler
, Colin Farrell
and Matthew Fox
. Note: this section needs to be updated, as CBS has now announced that the first movie will be adapted from Flynn's later released novel about the personal events which transformed Rapp into an assassin, and have signed Edward Zwick to direct. The leading man will be a younger version of Rapp than previously discussed actors.
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
in a series of novels by Vince Flynn
Vince Flynn
Vince Flynn is a best-selling American author of political thriller novels. He lives with his wife and three children in the Twin Cities. He was a frequent guest on the Glenn Beck program on the Fox News Channel...
and in the planned film adaptation of what was to be Consent to Kill, but now changed to American Assassin.http://www.movierewind.com/2011/new-mitch-rapp-movie/ The character first appeared in ISBN 0-671-02319-5 Transfer of Power and in the 11 subsequent novels by Vince Flynn.
Character introduction
Mitch Rapp is a counter-terrorismCounter-terrorism
Counter-terrorism is the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, militaries, police departments and corporations adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed.The tactic of terrorism is available to insurgents and governments...
operative employed, first unofficially then officially, by the CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
. The primary focus of the character is thwarting Middle Eastern terrorist attacks on the United States and he is presented as an aggressive operative who is willing to take measures that are more extreme than might be considered commonly acceptable.
Motivations
Rapp's high school sweetheart Maureen (Mary in American Assassin) "the Dream" Eliot, who was attending Syracuse UniversitySyracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
with Rapp, was killed in the December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London Heathrow Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport...
. She had been one of thirty-five Syracuse students returning from a semester overseas. One year later he was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency by Irene Kennedy.
Conflict(s)
Over the course of the series Rapp assassinates several terrorists both on foreign and domestic soil. His main conflicts center on IslamIslam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
ic terrorists.
Minor irritations
Politics, red tape, and politicians who do not understand the need for extreme measuresTorture
Torture is the act of inflicting severe pain as a means of punishment, revenge, forcing information or a confession, or simply as an act of cruelty. Throughout history, torture has often been used as a method of political re-education, interrogation, punishment, and coercion...
.
Prior story
Rapp attended Syracuse UniversitySyracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
, where he majored in international business
International Business
International business is a term used to collectively describe all commercial transactions that take place between two or more regions, countries and nations beyond their political boundary...
and minored in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
. He attended the college on a lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
scholarship and was an All-American. Rapp was also offered a scholarship by the University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
, but turned that one down because his high school sweetheart Maureen (Mary in American Assassin) "the Dream" Eliot was attending Syracuse with the hope of getting into broadcasting
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
. Maureen, whom Rapp had known since he was fifteen years old, was killed in the December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London Heathrow Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport...
. She had been one of thirty-five Syracuse students returning from a semester overseas.
Nearly a year after Maureen's death, Rapp was recruited into the CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
by Irene Kennedy. He began training the week after graduating from Syracuse. Only twenty-three years old at the time, Rapp did not go through the standard CIA training program at "The Farm
Camp Peary
Camp Peary is a military reservation in York County near Williamsburg, Virginia. Officially it is referred to as the Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity under the auspices of the Department of Defense, but it is widely believed to be the location of a covert CIA training facility known...
," outside Williamsburg, Virginia
Williamsburg, Virginia
Williamsburg is an independent city located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of Virginia, USA. As of the 2010 Census, the city had an estimated population of 14,068. It is bordered by James City County and York County, and is an independent city...
. Instead, for a year straight he was shuttled from one location to the next, sometimes spending a week, sometimes a month. The bulk of the training was handled by Stan Hurley, a former CIA operative, who taught him "how to shoot, stab, blow things up, and even kill with his bare hands." In other words, he was schooled in firearms and marksmanship, hand to hand combat, and explosives. Endurance was stressed. There were long swims and even longer runs. Between all the heavy lifting, they worked on his foreign language skills. Since he had minored in French at Syracuse, within a month at the CIA he was fluent in the language. He was then taught Arabic and Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
and can passably speak Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
and Pashto
Pashto language
Pashto , known as Afghani in Persian and Pathani in Punjabi , is the native language of the indigenous Pashtun people or Afghan people who are found primarily between an area south of the Amu Darya in Afghanistan and...
. He also speaks Spanish and Italian. He is ambidextrous, but naturally left-handed.
Rapp then became an operative of the Orion Team, a highly secretive organization supported by the CIA but outside the Agency. It is funded by money that has been diverted out of congressionally
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....
funded programs. The job of the Orion Team in a nutshell is to take the war to the terrorists. It was formed in response to the Lockerbie disaster by the then CIA director of operations Thomas Stansfield. The unit operates in secret, independent of the U.S. national security apparatus and circumvents the leviathan
Leviathan
Leviathan , is a sea monster referred to in the Bible. In Demonology, Leviathan is one of the seven princes of Hell and its gatekeeper . The word has become synonymous with any large sea monster or creature...
of politics and gets around small impediments like the executive order banning assassinations. The team is headed by Rapp's recruiter, Irene Kennedy, whose official role is as director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center
National Counterterrorism Center
The National Counterterrorism Center is a United States government organization responsible for national and international counterterrorism efforts. It is based in a modern complex near McLean, Virginia called Liberty Crossing...
.
Rapp has been the Orion Team's star operative almost from the day he started and has been honed into the most effective counterterrorism operative in America's
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
arsenal. He's spent significant amounts of time in Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia collecting intelligence
Intelligence (information gathering)
Intelligence assessment is the development of forecasts of behaviour or recommended courses of action to the leadership of an organization, based on a wide range of available information sources both overt and covert. Assessments are developed in response to requirements declared by the leadership...
and when the situation called for it, dealing with threats in a more final manner.
Officially, Rapp has nothing to do with the U.S. government; rather, he is referred to in the business as a private contractor. Rapp lives a life completely separate from the Agency. His cover is that of a successful entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
. With the help of the CIA, he runs a small computer consulting business on the side that just happens to do a fair amount of international business, which gives him the cover to travel frequently. To keep things legitimate, Rapp often does indeed conduct business while abroad.
One of Rapp's aliases is Mitch Kruse. In the special ops community he is often known only by his call sign, "Iron Man" after the annual Ironman Triathlon
Ironman Triathlon
An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation consisting of a swim, a bike and a marathon run, raced in that order and without a break...
in which he has participated on several occasions and has twice won. His only remaining family is his brother, Steven Rapp, a millionaire financial genius. Mitch and Steven grew up in McLean, Virginia
McLean, Virginia
McLean is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. The community had a total population of 48,115 as of the 2010 census....
.
Throughout the books, Rapp works with several special operations
Special operations
Special operations are military operations that are considered "special" .Special operations are typically performed independently or in conjunction with conventional military operations. The primary goal is to achieve a political or military objective where a conventional force requirement does...
units including Navy SEALs and DEVGRU, Delta Force
Delta Force
1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta is one of the United States' secretive Tier One counter-terrorism and Special Mission Units. Commonly known as Delta Force, Delta, or The Unit, it was formed under the designation 1st SFOD-D, and is officially referred to by the Department of Defense...
, Air Force Special Operations Command
Air Force Special Operations Command
Air Force Special Operations Command is the Special Operations component of the United States Air Force and the US Air Force component command to the United States Special Operations Command , a unified command located at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida...
, the FBI Hostage Rescue Team, and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)
160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)
The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is a special operations unit of the United States Army that provides helicopter aviation support for general purpose forces and Special Operations Forces. Its missions have included attack, assault, and reconnaissance, and are usually conducted at...
. He also has close ties with "SEAL Demolition and Salvage Corporation," a private military company
Private military company
A private military company or provides military and security services. These combatants are commonly known as mercenaries, though modern-day PMCs refer to their staff as security contractors, private military contractors or private security contractors, and refer to themselves as private military...
specializing in underwater salvage such as getting rid of debris for ports and shipyards and training law enforcement divers, but whose employees also work from time to time as freelance operatives for the CIA. The company is owned and operated by Scott Coleman, former commanding officer of SEAL Team Six and friend of Rapp.
Relationship with other characters
- Thomas Stansfield
- Director of CIA (Transfer of Power and The Third Option)
- Irene Kennedy
- Director of the Counter-terrorism Center (Transfer of Power and The Third Option)
- Director of the CIA (Separation of Power through Pursuit of Honor)
Transfer of Power
(2000) -- IslamIslam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
ic terrorists have taken over the White House. The President
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
is safely evacuated to a bunker inside the White House. Things are not always as they seem; it is soon learned that his safety is in jeopardy, and over 70 hostages are still inside. The clock is ticking in favor of the terrorist, and if nothing is done soon the President and the hostages will be lost. CIA operative Mitch Rapp is tasked to observe from the inside and act if necessary. However, he quickly finds that in Washington
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, nothing is as simple as it seems, for there are people who are willing to use the hostages as pawns in their power struggle, and pawns can be sacrificed.
The Third OptionThe Third OptionThe Third Option is Vince Flynn's third novel, and the second to feature Mitch Rapp, an American agent that works for the CIA as an operative for a covert counterterrorism unit called the "Orion Team."-Plot summary:...
(2001) -- Beyond diplomacy and military intervention, there is the third option. Sinister forces wish to discredit the existing CIA chief and deputy chief as a part of a power struggle. Their perfect plan: set up top CIA operative Mitch Rapp on a "third option" mission to fail, and let Rapp take the blame. Their only mistake: they picked the wrong man to betray... Rapp goes on a mission that he has no plan in failing.Separation of PowerSeparation of PowerSeparation of Power is Vince Flynn's fourth novel, and the third to feature Mitch Rapp, an American agent that works for the CIA as an operative for a covert counterterrorism unit called the "Orion Team."-Plot summary:...
(2002) -- Dr. Irene Kennedy, now head of the CIA, has many enemies, and those enemies wish to destroy both her and the President in a daring plot. In the Middle East, Saddam HusseinSaddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
is developing a nuke
Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. The first fission bomb test released the same amount...
, and Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
vows to launch a preemptive strike
Preemptive strike
A preemptive strike refers to a surprise attack launched with the stated intention of countering an anticipated enemy offensive. Preemptive strike may also refer to:...
if the nuke is ever completed. Can CIA Operative Mitch Rapp destroy Saddam's plans before the Middle East is plunged into war while unraveling the sinister plots developing at home... in only 2 weeks?
Executive PowerExecutive PowerExecutive Power is Vince Flynn's fifth novel, and the fourth to feature Mitch Rapp, an American agent that works for the CIA as an operative for a covert counter terrorism unit called the "Orion Team."-Plot summary:...
(2003) -- A disgruntled congressman has destroyed Mitch Rapp's CIA operative career by outing him on national TV, and marking him for death by almost every terrorist who owns a television. Now Mitch Rapp must adjust to a new life as a CIA analyst/adviser, while attempting to plug a leak in the State DepartmentUnited States Department of State
The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...
that led to an ambush of a US Navy SEAL team in the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
. But in the shadows looms a madman and his assassin, ready to ignite another world war, and Mitch Rapp is the only one in their way.
Memorial DayMemorial Day (2004 novel)Memorial Day is Vince Flynn's sixth novel, and the fifth to feature Mitch Rapp, an American CIA agent that works for the counterterrorism unit "Orion Team". WorldCat shows that the book is in over 1800 US and Canadian libraries...
(2004) -- Mitch Rapp leads a daring raid on an Al Qaeda stronghold on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and reveals the unthinkable: Al Qaeda has obtained a nuke, and the target is Washington D.C., on Memorial DayMemorial Day
Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War...
. As the government debates on a course of action, Mitch Rapp is chasing leads and suspects across the globe. When the nuclear material is intercepted, everyone breaths a sigh of relief, but Mitch Rapp can't help but think... what if there is more than one?
Consent to KillConsent to KillConsent to Kill is the seventh novel by Vince Flynn and the sixth in a series that features CIA counterterrorism agent Mitch Rapp. In this thriller, Flynn focuses on the war on terror exploring all its aspects, from the president of the United States, to the CIA, the foot soldiers and the...
(2005) -- A SaudiSaudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
billionaire vows vengeance on Mitch Rapp after his son was killed by Rapp for the plot to nuke Washington D.C.. However, he's not the only one who wishes to see Mitch Rapp gone. For Rapp has made too many enemies in his effort to save the nation from Armageddon. This time, the international conspiracy may be bigger than even Rapp's ability to unravel...and the consequences could be devastating.
Act of Treason
(2006) -- Mitch Rapp makes another major appearance in this story about a conspiracy by very high officials to passively rig a presidential election by launching a false terrorist attack on one of the candidates, granting him a strong sympathy vote and propelling him to the Oval OfficeOval Office
The Oval Office, located in the West Wing of the White House, is the official office of the President of the United States.The room features three large south-facing windows behind the president's desk, and a fireplace at the north end...
. Rapp, still mourning the terrible loss of his wife and unborn child he suffered in "Consent to Kill", must work to save the nation from corruption and evil once more.
Protect and Defend
(2007) -- After the Israelis take out the Iranian nuclear complex with a brilliant strike using a deep undercover agent, the Iranians blame the U.S. and launch proactive attacks on the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf, and threaten to unleash a worldwide terrorist attack. Mitch has a plan to thwart the Iranians and embarrass them by exposing their lies at the U.N. General Assembly. But, before he can complete his mission, he must deal with a Palestinian terrorist that is playing and being played by the highest levels of the Iranian government.Extreme Measures
(2008) -- Now, with Rapp away on assignment in Afghanistan, CIA Director Irene Kennedy turns to her protégé Mike Nash. Nash has served his government honorably for sixteen years—first as an officer in the Marine Corps and then as an operative in an elite counter terrorism team run by none other than Mitch Rapp. He has met violence with extreme violence and has never wavered in his fight against the jihads and their culture of death. Rapp is boggled by "desk jockeys" while trying to save the world from a terrorism cellPursuit of Honor
(2009) -- The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National Counterterrorism Center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees.It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his trusted team member, Mike Nash. Now that the initial shock of the catastrophe is over, key Washington officials are up in arms over whether to make friends or foes of the agents who stepped between the enemy's bullets and countless American lives regardless of the legal consequences.
Not for the first time, Rapp finds himself in the frustrating position of having to illustrate the realities of national security to politicians whose view from the sidelines is inevitably obstructed.
Meanwhile, three of the al Qaeda terrorists are still at large, and Rapp has been unofficially ordered to find them by any means necessary.
No one knows the personal, physical, and emotional sacrifices required of the job better than Rapp. When he sees Nash cracking under the pressure of the mission and the memories of the horrors he witnessed during the terrorist attack, he makes a call he hopes will save his friend, assuage the naysayers on Capitol Hill, and get him one step closer to the enemy before it's too late.
American Assassin
(2010) -- Prior to becoming a CIA superagent, Rapp was attending Syracuse University along with his girl friend. When she is killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London Heathrow Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport...
the doors are open for his recruitment.
This novel reveals Rapp's early years and follows the formation of a new group of clandestine operatives headed by Irene Kennedy as they seek to stem the rise of Islamic terrorism before it reaches American shores.
Film Universe
The New York Times bestseller, Consent to Kill, is the first Mitch Rapp film in a proposed series of films by CBS FilmsCBS Films
CBS Films is an American film production company founded in 2007, a feature film division of CBS Corporation. CBS Films is located on Wilshire Boulevard in West Los Angeles.-Company history:...
. Consent to Kill will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
-Life and career:He spent the 1990s as an executive at Warner Bros. Pictures, eventually rising to President of Worldwide Production. His production company di Bonaventura Pictures is based at Paramount Pictures. His tenure at Warner Bros. included discovering and shepherding The Matrix into...
and Nick Wechsler
Nick Wechsler
Nick Wechsler is an American actor best known for his role as Kyle Valenti in the The WB teen drama series Roswell . He stars as Jack Porter on the ABC drama series Revenge.-Life and career:...
; the screen play was written by Jonathan Lemkin
Jonathan Lemkin
Jonathan Lemkin is an American screenwriter. He has written for the television series 21 Jump Street, Beverly Hills, 90210, and Hill Street Blues. He has also written the films Showdown in Little Tokyo , Lethal Weapon 4, Red Planet, and adapted The Devil's Advocate and Shooter from novels...
. The studio's last few films have performed poorly causing them to delay the production of this film. Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua is an American film director. He directed the film Training Day as well as Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter and Brooklyn's Finest...
has been listed as the director with several names being rumored to play Mitch Rapp including Gerard Butler
Gerard Butler
Gerard James Butler is a Scottish actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television. A trained lawyer, Butler turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies , which he followed with steady work on television, most notably in...
, Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell
Colin James Farrell is an Irish actor, who has appeared in such film as Tigerland, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth, The Recruit, Alexander and S.W.A.T....
and Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox (actor)
Matthew Chandler Fox is an American actor. He is mostly known for his role as Charlie Salinger on Party of Five, and for portraying Jack Shephard on the supernatural drama television series Lost.- Early life :...
. Note: this section needs to be updated, as CBS has now announced that the first movie will be adapted from Flynn's later released novel about the personal events which transformed Rapp into an assassin, and have signed Edward Zwick to direct. The leading man will be a younger version of Rapp than previously discussed actors.