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Kill Shot (Mitch Rapp #2)

by Vince Flynn (Goodreads Author)

4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 · rating details · 9,597 ratings · 802 reviews

#1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn is back with another nail-biting political thriller that follows the young Mitch Rapp on a deadly mission to hunt down the men responsible for the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack.

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...more

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Published February 7th 2012 by Atria (first published January 1st 2011)

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Mar 19, 2012 Domenico rated it 4 of 5 stars

It's very difficult to write a good prequel (cf. the Phantom Menace) and especially a good espionage thriller prequel (cf. Tom Clancy's Red Rabbit), so it's impressive that Vince Flynn has written two in a row. The author has to create suspense and jeopardy when you already know that certain key characters have to survive the book to show up in the stories covered in the earlier books.

In the previous book in the series, Flynn gave us the origins of the world's greatest terrorist hunter, Mitch Ra...more

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Apr 13, 2012 Daniel Audet rated it 4 of 5 stars

Vince Flynn has been in my personal Top 10 thriller authors for a long time. "Kill Shot" is another example why he is a major player and rides the bestseller lists consistently.
Mitch Rapp is a character with a unique edge and Flynn busts him loose after setting his own edge in this prequel edition. A shadowy government group with internal issues of it's own has Rapp in Paris to do what he does best. Only, some within the group are not Rapp's biggest fans, like his handler is. Now, he's on the ru...more

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Mar 17, 2012 Gary Proctor rated it 4 of 5 stars

Finished this in a couple of days. This is a follow on to the last book going back to Rapp's early days with the CIA. The book is very good in fleshing out the back stories of several of the side characters and there is more meat here than in many of the books in the series, at the expense of some of the action that the others have. But the story is very good and this did not bother me at all. What did bother me and what kept me from giving it 5 stars, is the the ending seemed a bit to quick and...more

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Oct 26, 2012 Becca rated it 2 of 5 stars

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This book was given to me as a gift, otherwise I probably wouldn't have picked it up. I love a good thriller, but I don't read them often because of the language and sleaze that is used in the majority of them over class and sophistication. Pages full of cursing and foul language is not my cup of tea. That being said, this book was pretty average on that count. A couple of characters with dirty mouths, more crudeness than I hear in typical conversation, but the author is dealing with an atypical...more

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May 04, 2013 John rated it 4 of 5 stars

This story was interesting in that it filled in a number of empty holes in the history of Mitch Rapp for me. As usual, Vince Flynn grabs your attention in the first chapter and doesn't let you go until the last page.

Rapp does all the things many of us would secretly envision happening to traitors but that none of us would actually do in real life. Which is the whole point of Mitch Rapp's existence! This story is nothing new in that quarter. However, Vince Flynn continues to engage me because he...more

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Mar 20, 2013 Jay added it

Someone failed. The intelligence was wrong. His target was not supposed to have a bodyguard detail- let alone five men carrying automatic weapons.
Mitch Rapp, and American assassin, is working his way through a highly contained list of terrorists. His most recent target is a Libyan- he caught up in Paris. It should have been simple- a quick in and out. Then there were bullets everywhere.
Rapp took down his assailants- all but the one who shot him. He got out- rappelled down off the balcony wit...more

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Dec 19, 2012 Jorge Castillo rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Well.. the book was really easy to read. I am not looking down at American literature of this genre. In the contrary, I think it is quite patriotic and a good read. It is good to read to read all sorts of sources from all over the spectrum. I thought the plot was a entertaining and it was a quicker than usual read, especially if you are got a couple of hours. At times the book dragged but I liked the action and the detail of the action sequences. Overall, I this is a guys book. Very American. I...more

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Sep 03, 2012 William Bentrim rated it 5 of 5 stars

Kill Shot by Vince Flynn

If you enjoy action adventure, don’t walk, run to your computer and order some Vince Flynn. This is a time warp on Mitch Rapp, Flynn’s American Assassin. We get to see some of what has transpired to turn Mitch into the killing machine featured in this jaw dropping series.

If you talk action adventure at a cocktail party, in a matter of seconds someone will ask if you have read any Vince Flynn. I have only missed 2 of his 13 books in this series and I intend to read the tw...more

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Jul 05, 2012 Alison rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another exciting installment from Vince Flynn!

The second story, in chronological order, of the Mitch Rapp series, but a prequel for anyone who has been following the Rapp stories since Transfer of Power. I have read a few books from this series, but I admit, I've read them out of order (I started with Memorial Day...and loved it). I know full well that I would get a whole lot more out of these books if I had read them in order, without skipping, thus, knowing all the back-stories of all the bad...more

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Jun 14, 2012 Nancy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Just loved the book. Full of action, couldn't put it down. Love the characters (and so hope that CIA is not this corrupt).

#1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR VINCE FLYNN DELIVERS THE YOUNG, HUNGRY, AND LETHAL MITCH RAPP AT THE ONSET OF HIS CAREER AS A CIA SUPERAGENT. In the year since the CIA trained and then unleashed him, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each swift and untraceable kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for...more

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May 29, 2012 Drew rated it 4 of 5 stars

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The story begins with Mitch Rapp on another mission. He is sent to the hotel room of a Libyan Oil Minister and ordered to take him out. Just as Rapp pulls the trigger the door of the hotel room bursts open and men begin spraying bullets at Rapp. Rapp manages to protect himself and take out 4 of the 5 men shooting at him. As he is making his escape he is shot once in the shoulder but it is not life threatening. This series of event leads Rapp to believe that...more Warning this review contains spoilers!

The story begins with Mitch Rapp on another mission. He is sent to the hotel room of a Libyan Oil Minister and ordered to take him out. Just as Rapp pulls the trigger the door of the hotel room bursts open and men begin spraying bullets at Rapp. Rapp manages to protect himself and take out 4 of the 5 men shooting at him. As he is making his escape he is shot once in the shoulder but it is not life threatening. This series of event leads Rapp to believe that one of his superiors back at Langley have set him up and meant to have him eliminated. However back at Langley Rapp's handlers think he's lost it and must figure out the truth about what happened in that Paris hotel room. The CIA sends the man that helped train Rapp, Stan Hurley, and his goon Victor to try and track down Rapp. Victor and Rapp have had a run-in in the past and neither is fond of the other. Victor sees this as his chance to get some pay back by killing Rapp. Rapp, knowing he's being followed sends a decoy that resembles him to a CIA safe house that is under Victor's surveillance. Victor jumps at this opportunity and kills the decoy along with the 2 other men running surveillance with him to make it seem as if Rapp went crazy by killing the 2 men and then Victor took him out. What Victor didn't count on was the real Rapp watching the whole thing from a building across the street. Rapp ties to chase down Victor, hits him with one bullet, but manages to get away with the non-threatening wound. Victor goes to his superiors and tries to convince them of Rapp's insanity but Rapp gets to them first and has the evidence to prove that it was Victor who was betraying them. Victor goes on to tell Rapp that he's been sharing CIA secrets with the deputy director of the CIA, Paul Cooke, and that Cooke has been selling this information to other intelligence agencies and even terrorist organizer. Rapp finds these men and puts a bullet in each of their heads.

I gave this book a 4 star rating because there are so many twists that I didn't see coming that it kept me guessing the entire time. "The decision was easy for Rapp. He grabbed the door handle and said, 'Stan, you can shoot me if you want, but I'm as good as dead if I don't kill every last one of those [guys] right now'" (394). This was just after Rapp heard that his identity was being sold out by the deputy director of the CIA. Throughout the book this character was mentioned very little so it was a big twist to see that he had a huge impact on the whole story at the very end.

another reason i gave this book a 4 star rating was that it mixed some very funny subtle humor in with all of the twists and action. "If communism is so great then why do we have to bring our own toilet paper everywhere we go?" (311). This is so funny and I love that in the heat of everything there is still time t make a little joke like this.(less)

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May 19, 2012 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anyone who has read the series

Shelves: fiction-thrillers-suspense

There were some interesting quotes in this edition of the series which chronicles the development of Mitch Rapp.

The future reporter looked up at her mother and said, "If communism is so great, then why do we have to bring our own toilet paper everywhere we go?" It was one of Hurley's favorite stories. He'd spent drunken weekends arguing with entrenched communists and gotten nowhere, but somehow an eleven-year-old girl had managed to break the debate down to the most basic level

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May 05, 2012 Dale rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Continuing with the "prequels" of the Mitch Rapp story

Published in 2012 by Simon & Schuster Audio
Read by George Guidall
Duration: 10 hours, 49 minutes.

Vince Flynn's long-running character Mitch Rapp was introduced and developed as a successful and established CIA Counter-terrorism agent - sort of an American James Bond, if you will. He is dangerous, effective, and willing to break the rules in order to get the job done. After ten books featuring Rapp, author Vince Flynn decided to explore Rap...more

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Apr 28, 2012 Joy marked it as to-read

INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR VINCE FLYNN DELIVERS THE YOUNG, HUNGRY, AND LETHAL MITCH RAPP AT THE ONSET OF HIS CAREER AS A CIA SUPERAGENT. In the year since the CIA trained and then unleashed him, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each swift and untraceable kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians in the Pan Am Lockerbie attack become increasingly aware that someone is hunting them. Rapp is...more

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Apr 19, 2012 Joe rated it 3 of 5 stars

Dissapointing. I like this type of multi-book spanning, gritty, lonely, super-tough character genre. For example I am a big fan of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels. I eat them up as they are released . And Vince Flynn has some good previous novels of this type. But this one didn't make it for me. It was I think, too introspective.

IMO a reader of this type of novel only wants to spend a reasonably limited time in the character's self-analyses and continuous self-absorbstions. "Why did I do it, who...more

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Mar 25, 2012 Larry rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love Vince Flynn. I am so grateful that he is doing better. It was a sad day when I learned of his fight with cancer. I hope, and believe, he is doing much better. We need Vince to live a long time to continue to bring us his Mitch Rapp stories. This book is different in many respects, but still a page turner until the end. Mitch has his tail in a "ringer" (for those of you old enough to remember the old wringer washing machines). He's fighting for his lif (literally and figuratively) througho...more

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Mar 22, 2012 Joseph D. Walch rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, spy-novels, political-fiction

I listened to this book on my way to San Antonio. OK, I gave it 4/5 stars because I like the series and am hooked by the characters. If I were a critic, I'd probably rate it a little lower. That extra star is for the fun I got out of it. The violence is pretty clinical--nothing (too) sadistic and the sensuality is tastefully discrete (nothing too uncomfortable and no graphic scenes). It was a good thriller. Not Vince Flynn's best, but worth the read if you've read the other books in the series.

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Mar 18, 2012 Jay Connor rated it 4 of 5 stars

What happens when a character ages faster than his author? Think Tom Clancy’s “Jack Ryan,” Michael Connelly’s “Harry Bosch,” or here Vince Flynn’s “Mitch Rapp.” A corollary to this question could be what happens when a new author takes over a character: like “Jason Bourne,” who has recently been disfigured to the eternal posthumous embarrassment of the great Robert Ludlum.

Ryan was promoted to President and the series limped along with his son unconvincingly taking over the derring-do. Bosch was...more

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Feb 29, 2012 Cathy rated it 4 of 5 stars

A love Vince Flynn's thrilling, action-packed spy intrigues, especially after reading Austen's Northanger Abbey. (yawn) His style is straight forward, easily understood, clear, to-the-point, etc. There is little use of poetic devices such as symbols, analogies, alliteration, etc. Just tells the story in the most exciting way possible. Refreshing.
The language is way too rough for the faint-of-heart, but is not out of character for hardened CIA assassins. Flynn always makes Mitch Rapp the most li...more A love Vince Flynn's thrilling, action-packed spy intrigues, especially after reading Austen's Northanger Abbey. (yawn) His style is straight forward, easily understood, clear, to-the-point, etc. There is little use of poetic devices such as symbols, analogies, alliteration, etc. Just tells the story in the most exciting way possible. Refreshing.
The language is way too rough for the faint-of-heart, but is not out of character for hardened CIA assassins. Flynn always makes Mitch Rapp the most likable and most ethical killer. (What? Oxymoronic comment alert!). But that is the fun part of the whole guy, who more than likely will replace 007 as the spy of all spys in time, even without the gadgets. (If you look at the photo of the author on the back, that is how I picture Rapp. Ultimate eye-candy, and ultimately more HUNKY than my next favorite, Jonny Depp.)
The reason I keep reading these books, despite the language and violence, is because Rapp is me in my super[wo]man dreams, righting the wrongs perpetrated by terrorists and traitors against our beloved country, family, friends and religion. (not necessarily in that order). We wish that a Rapp-type CIA guy really did exist in the woossy world of American government where we (especially under our current administration 2012) would rather cow-tow than demand respect from those who spit in our faces, while holding tight to our Foreign Aid. Disgusting!
I appreciate that the sex scenes are toned down, more implied than explicit, as are the kill scenes, where graphic descriptions are absent, thank heavens. The intrigue of not knowing who, in and out of the CIA, Rapp can trust, (he doesn't know and we don't know, ((little dramatic irony evident)) keeps us anxious to keep reading to find out.
In a personal note: I am so sad that Flynn is having to endure the ravages of cancer and the treatments that ensue. My husband is a cancer survivor of 9 years now, but I remember vividly the gut-wrenching agonies of that diagnosis, even though it wasn't mine, but a loved one's. Please Heavenly Father bless him with all that he needs according to Thy tender mercies!(less)

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Feb 25, 2012 Michael Clifton rated it 4 of 5 stars

In Vince Flynn's latest Mitch Rapp novel, we are taken back to the time shortly after Rapp has been recruited and trained by the CIA as an assassin. Rapp has been spectacularly successful in assassinating members of a terrorist Muslim group who have been responsible for multiple terrorist attacks. When Rapp takes out his next target, a Libyan Oil minister, he discovers a trap has been set for him, and he barely escapes with his life. Rapp is wounded, and the rest of the novel deals with unraveli...more

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Feb 20, 2012 Bill Krieger rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Mitch Rapp book series is my absolute fave. I am most definitely not objective, so please ignore this review as it is blatantly biased. This is Flynn's latest installment, and it is excellent. Great ending!

I was disgruntled at the beginning because the book is not chronological. It doesn't continue the Mitch Rapp story from the last book (whatever that was). Rather, it goes back to early in Mitch Rapp's terrorist-slaying career. So, that was a little weird, but I got over it. I also didn't l...more

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Feb 15, 2012 Book Him Danno rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This is a thrill ride to be enjoyed and not a political handbook to solve the world’s problem.

This is the book I was looking for when I read the latest James Bond book (and was disappointed). Vince Flynn has captured perfectly the ramped up modern movie spy better than I have seen anywhere else (think the Craig's Bond or the Bourne movies). You have a super tough and intelligent action hero fighting the world's evils one bad guy at a time.

The make reference several times in the book that the her...more

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Feb 09, 2012 Julia rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is the the second prequel in the Mitch Rapp series, following on from American Assassin. That book was about Rapp's recruitment and training to become a clandestine assassin for the CIA. When this story kicks off, he is about to eliminate another US target, a Libyan terrorist who is visiting Paris. He breaks into the man's room and pumps a bullet into him as he sleeps. But almost immediately he realises that he's walked into a trap and that a team is lying in wait to assassinate him. Rapp i...more

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Feb 18, 2012 Paul Pessolano rated it 4 of 5 stars

“Kill Shot” by Vince Flynn, published by Emily Bestler Books.

Category – Mystery/Thriller

One needs only to say that Vince Flynn wrote it and that it is #12 in the Mitch Rapp series that should be enough to put it on the New York Times Best Seller List.

Vince Flynn has never disappointed his readers in any of the previous Mitch Rapp novels and he does not disappoint in “Kill Shot”.

Mitch Rapp is without a doubt the biggest and baddest (or Badass) CIA agent ever.

Mitch may be in real trouble though be...more

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Feb 29, 2012 Mike (the Paladin) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: action

Mitch Rapp has his troubles. In the last few books Mr. Flynn has dropped back and given us Mitch's history, his beginnings in the CIA.

In the last outing we met some of the players that are here in this book. We also saw the genesis so to speak of the events here. This book while holding the mantel of action proudly around it's shoulders and being true to said mantel also manages to be somewhat of a "who done it". While it tells the story in the "The reader sees behind the curtain" mode it still...more

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Jul 16, 2012 Ed rated it 3 of 5 stars

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When I was a wee teenage boy in the early 80's (yes I know, I'm old, so what, wanna fight?) I frequented my local public library, called a free library at the time, I don't know why, I never have been to a library where I had to pay. There was always numerous chromed wire racks (the kind that spin around) filled with what I guess were called "Men's Adventure" books. I picked up a copy of a series called "The Executioner" by Don Pendleton. My library didn't have #1 (War Against the Mafia)so I had...more

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Jun 07, 2012 Amorak Huey rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: thriller

What Flynn does well is set a compelling plot in motion quickly, and keep the book moving relatively briskly toward the resolution of that plot. Situation, rising action, climax, falling action. Straightforward stuff.

What I like less well here is the prose, which tends toward the flat and sometimes downright silly: "She was literally a head-turner." "She had the softest, most feminine hands he'd ever encountered." Too often, Flynn settles for cliche, for the familiar: "A one-man wrecking ball, b...more What Flynn does well is set a compelling plot in motion quickly, and keep the book moving relatively briskly toward the resolution of that plot. Situation, rising action, climax, falling action. Straightforward stuff.

What I like less well here is the prose, which tends toward the flat and sometimes downright silly: "She was literally a head-turner." "She had the softest, most feminine hands he'd ever encountered." Too often, Flynn settles for cliche, for the familiar: "A one-man wrecking ball, bent on killing every last terrorist son of a bitch he could get his hands on." "Her touch could make him weak in the knees." That kind of thing. All too easy, and a few of these sentences in a book are fine, but after 380 pages, the stiffness of the language leaves this reader slightly headachey and flipping pages briskly: skimming to get to the resolution of the plot.

Also, the characters here all seem hastily drawn. Their actions are inconsistent. And despite the book's overt concerns with motivations, no one acts in a particularly believable way. They feel like characters, in other words, not like real people.

The closest analogy to Flynn's Mitch Rapp probably is Lee Child's Jack Reacher. But Reacher is more compelling, somehow, I think because Child knows his hero is not especially realistic, so the author goes all-in and makes him flat-out larger than life. He's not a hero, he's a super-hero. Child doesn't waste too much time investigating Reacher's motives -- he just throws him into trouble and lets us enjoy watching him thrash his way out. Flynn doesn't seem to have quite that much confidence in Rapp; he spends more time trying to convince us that Rapp is a real person, just like us only, you know, better at things like killing bad guys and seeing trouble coming. There are far too many conversations and inner monologues in this book about what makes Rapp tick. As a reader, I'm going: who cares, can we get back to the part where he kills the bad guys?

Oh, and speaking of bad guys, they need to be more interesting. The ones here are straight of the manual for Right Wing American Thriller Writers: craven, cowardly politicians who have no idea what Real Men have to do to keep the rest of us safe; sleazy, self-interested (and also, of course, cowardly) Frenchmen; incompetent, hypocritical, brown-skinned terrorists. And so on. None is particularly interested, and all of them clearly outclassed by Rapp, so how things will turn out should surprise exactly no one. (less)

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Mar 07, 2012 Paul rated it 3 of 5 stars

Mitch Rapp is a man on a mission

For months, Mitch has been working his way through a list of men responsible for the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing – bullet by bullet.

His next target – a Libyan diplomat – should be easy. Prone to drink and currently is Paris without a bodyguard, Rapp quickly tracks the man down and sends a bullet into his skull while he’s sleeping. But at the moment he squeezes the trigger, the door to the hotel room is kicked open and gunfire erupts around him.

A wounded Rapp escapes...more Mitch Rapp is a man on a mission

For months, Mitch has been working his way through a list of men responsible for the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing – bullet by bullet.

His next target – a Libyan diplomat – should be easy. Prone to drink and currently is Paris without a bodyguard, Rapp quickly tracks the man down and sends a bullet into his skull while he’s sleeping. But at the moment he squeezes the trigger, the door to the hotel room is kicked open and gunfire erupts around him.

A wounded Rapp escapes with his life, but when the news breaks in France he is a wanted man. His handlers have only one choice. Rapp has become a liability, and he must not be taken alive. Alone in Paris, on the run from the authorities and from his own employers, Mitch Rapp must prepare to fight for his life.

Kill Shot suffers the unenviable task of try to be all things to all people. It needs to please all the existing Mitch Rapp fans out there, as this is the twelfth book in the series I imagine that there are quite a few, as well as draw in new potential readers. I fall squarely into the second category. I’ve not read any of the other books, including the 1st prequel novel that precedes Kill Shot, so I’m blissfully ignorant of everything that has happened before and after the events that occur here. The good news, though, is that as this novel acts is a prequel to most of the previous eleven books it does actually serve as quite a good introduction to the murky life of a CIA sanctioned assassin.

The clandestine nature of espionage and assassination feature as a backdrop to the novel’s main narrative. The vast majority of the characters that the reader meets are directly involved in spying for their various governments, and it becomes obvious quite early on that all of them have what can only be described as ‘trust issues’. There are plenty of shady political machinations that will keep any reader’s attention.

At this early point in his career Mitch Rapp is driven by his desire for revenge. Events in his past fuel his anger toward all forms of terrorism. When it comes to his work he is like a machine, he lets nothing and no one stand in his way. He will complete his objectives at all costs.

There aren’t many moments in the novel where the reader gets to see Rapp’s human side, and I have to admit, I am a bit unsure about this choice. I can appreciate his motivations when it comes to his chosen profession but I didn’t empathise with him as much as I would have liked. In fairness, this decision may be entirely deliberate on the author’s part. It could well be the case that this is something that is more effectively explored in the other novels. I would be keen to see how Flynn marries together the two opposing sides of Rapp’s personality – the ruthless efficient killer, and the man.

This small qualm aside, I have to say that overall I did quite enjoy Kill Shot. The final chapters where the whole situation is finally cleared up really picks up the pace and is engrossing stuff. I would be interested in reading some of the other novels in the series to see how this prequel stacked up against them. I’m sure that some of the supporting characters are now well-established series favourites and I admit a certain amount of curiosity as to finding out which ones have survived in the cutthroat spy business.

Kill Shot is published by Simon & Schuster and is available now.(less)

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Jun 25, 2012 Thomas rated it 4 of 5 stars

SKIP EVERYTHING AND READ THIS STORY IF YOU LOVE GREAT EDGE-OF- YOUR –SEAT, NO-NONSENSE ACTION. Like all of Vince Flynn’s work this book is nearly impossible to put down. I finished it in two nights and lost a lot of sleep because of it.

Of course if you’re a Vince Flynn fan you’ve already experienced this. If you haven’t read your first Vince Flynn novel, you’re in for quite a treat. You’ve been missing out on a truly great writer of intrigue, thriller, and political fiction. If you are a newbie...more

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Mar 10, 2012 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars

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This is a prequil of the Mitch Rapp story. He's been through the CIA training and unleashed against the terrorist group responsible for the Pan Am Lockerbie attack.

He has a list of names of the terrorists and eliminates them one by one. Now he receives the naxt name and as he approaches where the man is, something doesn't feel right.

No sooner does he eliminate that terrorist than the room explodes in gunfire from other terrorists who were waiting for him. Matt narrowly escapes and wonders if he'...more

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The fifth of seven children, Vince Flynn was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1966. He graduated from the St. Thomas Academy in 1984, and the University of St. Thomas with a degree in economics in 1988. After college he went to work for Kraft General Foods where he was an account and sales marketing specialist. In 1990 he left Kraft to accept an aviation candidate slot with the...more The Vince Flynn Story

The fifth of seven children, Vince Flynn was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1966. He graduated from the St. Thomas Academy in 1984, and the University of St. Thomas with a degree in economics in 1988. After college he went to work for Kraft General Foods where he was an account and sales marketing specialist. In 1990 he left Kraft to accept an aviation candidate slot with the United States Marine Corps. One week before leaving for Officers Candidate School, he was medically disqualified from the Marine Aviation Program, due to several concussions and convulsive seizures he suffered growing up. While trying to obtain a medical waiver for his condition, he started thinking about writing a book. This was a very unusual choice for Flynn since he had been diagnosed with dyslexia in grade school and had struggled with reading and writing all his life.

Having been stymied by the Marine Corps, Flynn returned to the nine-to-five grind and took a job with United Properties, a commercial real estate company in the Twin Cities. During his spare time he worked on an idea he had for a book. After two years with United Properties he decided to take a big gamble. He quit his job, moved to Colorado, and began working full time on what would eventually become Term Limits . Like many struggling artists before him, he was a bartender at night and wrote during the day. Five years and more than sixty rejection letters later he took the unusual step of self-publishing his first novel. The book went to number one in the Twin Cities, and within a week had a new agent and two-book deal with Pocket Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint.

Term Limits hit the New York Times bestseller list in paperback and started a trend for all of Flynn's novels. Since then, his books have become perennial bestsellers in both paperback and hardcover, and he has become known for his research and prescient warnings about the rise of Islamic Radical Fundamentalism and terrorism. Read by current and former presidents, foreign heads of state, and intelligence professionals around the world, Flynn's novels are taken so seriously one high-ranking CIA official told his people, “I want you to read Flynn's books and start thinking about how we can more effectively wage this war on terror.”

October 2007 marked another milestone in Flynn’s career when his ninth political thriller, Protect and Defend, became a #1 New York Times bestseller. A few months later, CBS Films optioned the rights for Flynn’s Mitch Rapp character with the intention of creating a character-based, action-thriller movie franchise. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who previously launched the Harry Potter and Matrix films as head of production at Warner Bros., and Nick Wechsler (We Own the Night, Reservation Road) will produce the films.

Flynn lives in the Twin Cities with his wife and three children.

Works by Flynn include Transfer of Power, The Third Option, Separation of Power , Executive Power , Memorial Day, Consent to Kill, Act of Treason, and Extreme Measures.
-- Atria Books (2008)

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“[He] had seen firsthand the horrific results of appeasement. It was a path chosen by feebleminded people who were morally incapable of confronting evil. He saw many parallels between the Nazis, the communists, and these jihadists. They were all sociopaths at heart--obsessed with their own tribal desires and utterly incapable of conferring justice or compassion on those outside the tribe. If you were not one of them, you were a lesser human, and thus deserved to be treated in any way they saw fit. And if that meant blowing up airliners and buses full of innocent civilians, then so be it.” — 1 person liked it

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