by Vince Flynn
Part of Mitch Rapp, book 18
First published 2019
ISIS forces a captured French microbiologist to manufacture anthrax while America tears itself apart during a toxic presidential election. Politicians care only about power as slickly produced videos show the scientist's deadly progress and promise imminent attack. The terrorist group recruits Mexican drug cartels to smuggle the bioweapon across the border, but this creates mere distraction. ISIS actually plans to weaponize a lethal virus discovered in Yemen that could trigger a global pandemic and reshape world order. Mitch Rapp must infiltrate the cartels and hunt down the ISIS commander who escaped their previous encounter. Washington's political establishment increasingly opposes him, leaving Rapp isolated. He faces enemies on multiple fronts while racing to prevent mass death from biological warfare that exploits America's internal divisions and political paralysis.
Genres: adventure, suspense, action, political-thriller
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, race-against-time
Setting: America, France, Mexico, Yemen
Period: 21st-century
384 pages · Hardcover · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Content warnings: graphic-violence, violence