by Vince Flynn
Part of Mitch Rapp, book 24
First published 2025
Mitch Rapp receives a horrifying message when his Swiss girlfriend Greta's grandfather opens a package containing a severed head and a death threat. The note promises Greta will be next. Rapp, a newly trained assassin in the CIA's covert Orion program, must navigate a brewing war between American and Russian intelligence services. The CIA faces an existential crisis following the Soviet collapse, with Congress questioning its purpose. Interim director Thomas Stansfield battles to save the agency while explaining a murdered candidate and a failed Moscow operation that compromised America's most valuable Russian asset. The CIA's Moscow Station lies crippled by the intelligence disaster. Stansfield turns to Rapp for help, but the young operative has his own deadly problem. Russian agents have targeted the woman he loves, forcing Rapp into the center of an escalating conflict. He must protect Greta while helping preserve the CIA from destruction. The mission demands everything Rapp has learned as an assassin and tests his willingness to sacrifice for both love and country.
Genres: historical-fiction, military-fiction, suspense, action, espionage, political-thriller
Vibes: fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Switzerland, Moscow, CIA
Period: Post-Soviet Collapse
432 pages · Hardcover · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Content warnings: violence