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The Last Man (Mitch Rapp #13)
by
Vince Flynn (Goodreads Author)
A pulse-pounding thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn, as Mitch Rapp heads to Afghanistan to track down a missing CIA agent.
The four dead guards didn’t concern Mitch Rapp as much as the absence of the man they’d been paid to protect. Joe Rickman wasn’t just another foot soldier. For the last eight years Rickman had ran the CIA’s clandestine oper...more
The four dead guards didn’t concern Mitch Rapp as much as the absence of the man they’d been paid to protect. Joe Rickman wasn’t just another foot soldier. For the last eight years Rickman had ran the CIA’s clandestine oper...more
Hardcover, 448 pages
Published
November 13th 2012
by Atria/Emily Bestler Books
(first published January 1st 2012)
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I love Mitch Rapp. He is the "last man" you want to mess with. I wish Flynn would not have to get so graphic - this time about torture, and all the different gun makes and caliber numbers just go over my head, but other than that, Flynn tells a great story.
This book is set in the current situation of Afghanistan and Pakistan. It reflects the covert operations needed to find Bin Laden, how giving control back to the Afghan people is going, the concerns of Taliban continuing to be a key player, t...more
This book is set in the current situation of Afghanistan and Pakistan. It reflects the covert operations needed to find Bin Laden, how giving control back to the Afghan people is going, the concerns of Taliban continuing to be a key player, t...more
I found this book a little disappointing. The plot was ok, but I hate it when a seasoned writer like Flynn makes serious technical errors in his writing.
I would think that a writer would get some authorities to read his manuscript before publishing; after all, this is not Hollywood! I don't mind it with an author creates an object in his/her fiction - like Dale Brown's super-B-52. However, when they talk about real life entities, they should get it right.
1) (Oxygen tanks used as an explosive at...more
I would think that a writer would get some authorities to read his manuscript before publishing; after all, this is not Hollywood! I don't mind it with an author creates an object in his/her fiction - like Dale Brown's super-B-52. However, when they talk about real life entities, they should get it right.
1) (Oxygen tanks used as an explosive at...more
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#13 in the CIA counter-terrorist Mitch Rapp series. Joe Rickman is missing and his bodyguards are dead. If he has been kidnapped, the head of CIA covert operations in Afghanistan, has years of knowledge of covert payoffs and the names and locations of undercover operatives in his head. Mitch Rapp is tasked with finding Rickman before the kidnappers can get into his head. When a video surfaces showing Rickman being tortured to death, everyone breathes a sigh of relief that secrets are safe - but...more
I must admit. My 3-star review may be a bit sentimental here. The Mitch Rapp series of books is my all-time favorite. But if this book is "worth reading", then it is barely worth it. The Last Man was disappointing, and there's not much to recommend here.
The glaring weakness in The Last Man is how little Mitch Rapp appears. There are precious few scenes of classic Mitch Rapp action and violence. I think it's a good hundred pages before Mitch Rapp gets going at all.
The plot is really weak and, I w...more
The glaring weakness in The Last Man is how little Mitch Rapp appears. There are precious few scenes of classic Mitch Rapp action and violence. I think it's a good hundred pages before Mitch Rapp gets going at all.
The plot is really weak and, I w...more
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A review of the abridged audiobook
Published by Simon and Schuster in 2012
Read by Armand Schultz
Duration: Approximately 6 hours
Abridged
In The Last Man , Vince Flynn takes a break from the Mitch Rapp prequels and puts Mitch right in the thick of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. He is brought in to investigate the disappearance (a presumed home invasion kidnapping) of Joe Rickman, the head of the CIA's clandestine operations in Afghanistan. In fact, he's been involved in so many clandestin...more
Published by Simon and Schuster in 2012
Read by Armand Schultz
Duration: Approximately 6 hours
Abridged
In The Last Man , Vince Flynn takes a break from the Mitch Rapp prequels and puts Mitch right in the thick of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. He is brought in to investigate the disappearance (a presumed home invasion kidnapping) of Joe Rickman, the head of the CIA's clandestine operations in Afghanistan. In fact, he's been involved in so many clandestin...more
A safe house with four men lined up on the living room floor. There was nothing about this mess to give Mitch Rapp any kind of assurance that things would be fine, but it gave him an inkling to something he did not want to consider. The safe house looked like an average run of the mill two-story blockhouse in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. So what happened? Rapp's boss, Irene Kennedy sent him to Afghanistan to find Joe Rickman, the most cunning and brilliant operative he had ever worked with. Was the C...more
Another outstanding book in the Mitch Rapp series. An agent, Joe Rickman, is kidnapped in Afghanistan leaving behind 4 dead bodyguards in a safehouse that was supposed to be impregnable, not a normal agent, but one who knows most of the CIA's secrets. The question is, can they get him back before he breaks and spills those secrets to the kidnappers? There are many questions, most significantly, who has Rickman and how did they defeat the state of the art security system intended to protect him?...more
Well, I love Mitch Rapp. He is everybody's answer to taking out revenge against bad guys. And we love him for being such a patriot and cleaning the world of the scum. But ... I think I'm done with this series. I'm not comfortable with the language, but even more so, with the idea that we are supposed to feel great that our hero can kill with such precision, abandon, and perfection. Evidently, he only had one time when he did NOT take the kill shot to the forehead, and that was when he spared Gou...more
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After a two book diversion to look at Mitch Rapp’s back-story, here we are back in the present. In fact very much the present as a top CIA asset is kidnapped in Afghanistan and the knowledge he holds could put a great deal of the CIA’s intelligence gathering at risk. Mitch Rapp is sent out with a small advance team to try to track down the kidnappers before it is too late. After a while it appears there is another agenda at play although what it is and who is behind it, is not obvious.
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Vince Flynn has done it again! The Last Man is an adrenaline packed thrill ride that has more twists and turns than the world's great roller coasters. The book finds American assassin Mitch Rapp knee deep in a in conspiracy and mystery in post-Bin Laden Afghanistan.
When Joe Rickman, the CIA's top head of clandestine operations in Afghanistan is kidnapped, a tsunami of epic proportions is set off in the various branches of governments and intelligence agencies around the region and in the United...more
When Joe Rickman, the CIA's top head of clandestine operations in Afghanistan is kidnapped, a tsunami of epic proportions is set off in the various branches of governments and intelligence agencies around the region and in the United...more
How do you side with the good guys over the bad guys when you can’t tell who the good guys are? And what if the lines between good and bad keep blurring, so that the bad guys sit on the sidelines and watch the good guys destroy each other?
In Vince Flynn’s upcoming installment in his bestselling Mitch Rapp series, The Last Man (Atria) pits all of Washington against itself, set against the backdrop of the Middle East. The FBI fights the CIA who fights the repatriation of Afghani warlords who have...more
In Vince Flynn’s upcoming installment in his bestselling Mitch Rapp series, The Last Man (Atria) pits all of Washington against itself, set against the backdrop of the Middle East. The FBI fights the CIA who fights the repatriation of Afghani warlords who have...more
Paki ISI tries to take down the Clandestine Service. Joe Rickman, a very connected CIA orchestrator, goes off reservation and conspires with the Pakistani ISI to take down the CIA by revealing spies and other assets, as well as killing Rapp. Rapp storms into Kabul to investigate the disappearance of Rickman, but immediately smells a rat. With the ISI partnering with a sitting US Senator out to ruin Irene Kennedy, Rapp and his team walk into a trap and barely escape, with Rapp sustaining a concus...more
Flynn brings his famed character, Mitch Rapp, back on the scene with another explosive thriller. Using the favourite topic of this genre this decade, fighting against terrorist forces, Rapp is sent to Afghanistan to find a recently captured CIA operative, whose knowledge of many spies working for the US could cause a great mark against the Clandestine Service. Rapp’s rescue attempt is hampered, which flips the tables on the entire operation, partially turning the hunter into the hunted. After di...more
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Having followed the exploits of Mitch Rapp over the years, I thought I knew what I was getting into with this book. But....something has changed. I detected not a hint of goodness at the core of Rapp. The only thing evident about him was his foul mouth.
The adventure was much less enjoyable - there just seems to be a much harder edge to this than is warranted. I'm going to go back and read a couple of the earlier books in the series - I don't remember being so disturbed by my reading in the past...more
The adventure was much less enjoyable - there just seems to be a much harder edge to this than is warranted. I'm going to go back and read a couple of the earlier books in the series - I don't remember being so disturbed by my reading in the past...more
I have enjoyed all of Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp books. They have fast paced plots, realistic fights, accurate use of high tech equipment and interesting characters. The last two books in the Mitch Rapp series, American Assassin and Kill Shot, were prequels and were passable. The latest installment, The Last Man, is a story spun out of current event thread and is a weak addition to the series.
Joe Rickman, an important CIA asset in Afghanistan, who knows names of agents and spies, is kidnapped. Rap...more
This was my 12th Vince Flynn book and, I guess, my 12th Mitch Rapp book. I gave it 3 stars as it really was a page turner. I would put it down and try to go to sleep, but then turn over and pick it up again.
I gave it only 3 stars (I've given 5 stars to 11 of his other books)as the story line was so very weak and with no real resolution. There was lots of testosterone: gun battles, explosions, car chases, torture, murders, etc. And of course, the turncoats. I guess that was the biggest mystery i...more
I gave it only 3 stars (I've given 5 stars to 11 of his other books)as the story line was so very weak and with no real resolution. There was lots of testosterone: gun battles, explosions, car chases, torture, murders, etc. And of course, the turncoats. I guess that was the biggest mystery i...more
Mitch Rapp, the hero in author Vince Flynn's series, is to me the quintessential CIA agent. He's got a past that includes the murder of his wife and unborn child, an unbelievable memory and the willingness to kill anyone who's threatening the well-being of the United States.
All that is put to the test in this 13th installment, as a safe house has been breached, several inhabitants are killed and a very experienced agent who knows secrets that can bring down CIA operations in Afghanistan and Paki...more
All that is put to the test in this 13th installment, as a safe house has been breached, several inhabitants are killed and a very experienced agent who knows secrets that can bring down CIA operations in Afghanistan and Paki...more
Another view of Mitch Rapp that I didn't see coming! With this book and chapter of Mitch Rapp we are able to see the age and wisdom of Rapp. Rapp is now in his mid-forties and has been at his career for some twenty years. Early in the book he experiences a concussion and has some loss of memory. During his recovery the author takes you past the badass personality (which we all know well) to a wiser Mitch Rapp. Someone who possibly now is more determined but less volatile. Rapp becomes a “think...more
This NY Times best-selling anti-terrorism thriller (NYTBAT) is 13th in Vince Flynn’s series about clandestine US agent Mitch Rapp. Think of him as Dirty Harry meets Jack Bauer.
The Last Man seduces you three ways:
First, there’s the page-turning thing. I read 433 pages in 2.5 days.
Second, there’s the complex layering of agencies American, Afghan, and Pakistani. Characters from the US Senate, State Department, FBI, and CIA fight, betray, and collude with members of the Afghan Police, the Taliban,...more
The Last Man seduces you three ways:
First, there’s the page-turning thing. I read 433 pages in 2.5 days.
Second, there’s the complex layering of agencies American, Afghan, and Pakistani. Characters from the US Senate, State Department, FBI, and CIA fight, betray, and collude with members of the Afghan Police, the Taliban,...more
Well indeed this book is different from other Rapp stories.
First when I started the book it was like usual. Maybe Vince has bit overdone it with Rapp´s temper agaist the police captain but yeah. There was the first classic Rapp and later on with Poole and Vicker (I think that was her name) after that Rapp is boring and it´s all about Kennedy, Coleman and Nash while Rapp is chewing on his tongue.
Now what conclusion I draw is that Vince is trying a new direction of his books. Since Rapp is gettin...more
First when I started the book it was like usual. Maybe Vince has bit overdone it with Rapp´s temper agaist the police captain but yeah. There was the first classic Rapp and later on with Poole and Vicker (I think that was her name) after that Rapp is boring and it´s all about Kennedy, Coleman and Nash while Rapp is chewing on his tongue.
Now what conclusion I draw is that Vince is trying a new direction of his books. Since Rapp is gettin...more
Long time reader of Vince Flynn and have largely enjoyed all of his Mitch Rapp work. "The Last Man" is no exception. Tight suspense, surprising plot twists, shadowy conspiracies and authentic military action can be found within the pages.
The plot itself is at times, a little over-complex, and I felt like I had take notes, especially in the first several chapters. But, as always, once the ball got rolling it kept moving fast. This book was a little different from previous works; not quite as much...more
The plot itself is at times, a little over-complex, and I felt like I had take notes, especially in the first several chapters. But, as always, once the ball got rolling it kept moving fast. This book was a little different from previous works; not quite as much...more
Count down to the next one!!!!!
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The following could have easily been an passage from the book:
- "Good morning Mr. Rapp".
- Rapp casually took out his gun and shot the man. "I told you not to speak unless spoken to. I told you how dangerous I am. Now you understand I wasn't joking".
- "Rapp!", said the very important Army general, "you can't shoot my men. I am a very important person and I am in charge around here! You can call the head of the CIA and she'll tell you I'm running the show!"
- "You have no idea. The issue I was sent...more
- "Good morning Mr. Rapp".
- Rapp casually took out his gun and shot the man. "I told you not to speak unless spoken to. I told you how dangerous I am. Now you understand I wasn't joking".
- "Rapp!", said the very important Army general, "you can't shoot my men. I am a very important person and I am in charge around here! You can call the head of the CIA and she'll tell you I'm running the show!"
- "You have no idea. The issue I was sent...more
The premise of the novel centers around the disappearance of Joe Rickmann, the CIA's #1 asset in Afghanistan. The 'terrorists' release a video of a captive and beaten Rickmann and panic ensues throughout the spyworld that American assets are in danger of being picked up in the night. After 24 hours Rickmann has talked, which sends some spies running for cover. The Kabul station Chief, Hubbard, also goes missing. CIA Director Kennedy has no idea who is behind this, but it becomes clear when the F...more
Vince Flynn made the best decision by returning Rapp to present day, rather than continuing to explore adventures from his earlier days in the CIA. In the Last Man, a key CIA operative in Jalalabad is kidnapped, and Rapp is sent in to get him back. The operative, Rickman, possesses key information on CIA assets throughout the world, and if in the wrong hands could cripple the clandestine agency. When Rapp arrives to the scene, he displays his typical no-nonsense personality and digs in although...more
Four dead guards did'nt concern Mitch Rapp as much as the
absence of the man they were to protect, Joe Rickman. This
was'nt just another CIA agent . For the last eight years he
ran the clandestine operations in Afganistan. He worked with
every disreputable person in the Islamic Republic. More than
a quarter of a billion dollars had passed through his
hands and no one wanted to know how the money had been spent.
At first glance it looked like Rickman had been kidnapped but
Rapp knows certain things abou...more
absence of the man they were to protect, Joe Rickman. This
was'nt just another CIA agent . For the last eight years he
ran the clandestine operations in Afganistan. He worked with
every disreputable person in the Islamic Republic. More than
a quarter of a billion dollars had passed through his
hands and no one wanted to know how the money had been spent.
At first glance it looked like Rickman had been kidnapped but
Rapp knows certain things abou...more
Iron Man has returned….No, not superhero Tony Stark, it’s the CIA’s resident Hitman Mitch Rapp. The novel starts with our protagonist on a trip to Afghanistan investigating the kidnapping of the CIA’s main man on the ground, Joe Rickman who has been the main conduit for bribes in the country. No sooner is he on ground; Rapp is caught up in his toughest mission yet since “Protect and Defend”. What starts out as a typical Flynn terrorism story turns into something much more, a snapshot on where we...more
Is it just me or has Vince Flynn’s main “Last Man,” Mitch Rapp, over the course of now fourteen novels, become nothing more than a one-man killing machine? Is it just me, or has the violence become even more gratuitous with this latest caper? Is it just me, or does it seem to you too that Rapp’s number one solution to solving all problems has now become a simple 9 mm bullet to the back of the bad guy’s head?
After reading Flynn’s latest thrill ride, I think Rapp has crossed over into the dark sid...more
After reading Flynn’s latest thrill ride, I think Rapp has crossed over into the dark sid...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
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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
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