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Vince Flynn

Kill Shot: An American Assassin Thriller

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Vince Flynn was a New York Times bestselling author of eleven thrillers, including most recently EXTREME MEASURES and ACT OF TREASON. He lived in Minneapolis with his wife and three children. He died on June 19, 2013, after a three-year battle with prostate cancer.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 19, 2022

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Kill Shot is the second book in the Mitch Rapp series of spy novels written by the late author Vince Flynn (if you read them chronologically). If you read the books in publication order it is the twelfth book in the series. The events in the book are set a year after those in the American Assassin novel, and the majority of the action in this novel takes place in Paris. We find that Rapp has been working his way through a list of terrorists involved in the planning and execution of the Pan Am 103 bombing, in which his ex-girlfriend was killed. While taking out a person on the list, he is ambushed and quickly concludes that he was set up by someone and tries to discover, of the small number of people who knew the targets on the list, and in what order Rapp would go after them, who set him up.

So far, I have only read one other book in the series, American Assassin, and found the tone and pacing of this novel to be very similar. Flynn balances out the action and suspense with some excellent detective work by Rapp, throws in some sex between Rapp and his love interest from the first novel, Greta, and bounces between what Rapp is doing in Paris with what the CIA characters like Irene Kennedy, Stan Hurley, and Thomas Stansfield are doing in Virginia trying to figure out if Rapp has gone Rouge. There are definitely tie-ins with the story from American Assassin and a side plot that involves a French police officer and a member of France's DGSE (Directorate General for External Security), their equivalent of the CIA.

As most probably know, Flynn started writing the Mitch Rapp character in the novel Transfer Of Power, when Rapp was well into his career as a terrorist hunter for the CIA. American Assassin and Kill Shot are prequel novels that Flynn wrote when fans started clamoring for a Rapp origin story. Because I have not read the earlier novels yet, I cannot say that everyone who likes or loves the earlier novels centered around the older version of Rapp will like this book, but I can say that if you liked the American Assassin novel then you will probably like this one.

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StuartNZ

love it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2022

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For an adventure reader this series is a must. Up there with the grey man , the orphan and most other similar , looking forward to the next one

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BethMaine

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 19, 2022

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Great action that keeps your attention. I read and listened to the recording. The narrator is one of my favorites and did a great job. This only the second book in this series that I’ve read. It won’t be the last.

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MITCH RAPP - THE EARLY YEARS

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2012

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As a long-time reader of the Mitch Rapp series and a Vince Flynn fan I was more than looking forward to the release of "Kill Shot" and I wasn't disappointed. Mr. Flynn has a writing style that is engaging and knows just how much detail to provide for you to enjoy the ride.

This book picks up where "American Assassin" left off; exploring the recruitment and early career of Mitch Rapp. In "Kill Shot" we learn that Mitch has been eliminating a long list of terrorists and their supporters in short order. His reputation has preceded him, literally, as his current target, a Libyan oil minister with ties to terrorists, is being used as a pawn by others higher in the terrorist food chain to lure this very effective assassin into a trap. Things go terribly wrong and a blood-bath massacre threatens to destroy CIA anti-terror operations and irreparably damage U.S./French relations. Obviously this all points to Mitch, who was shot during the ambush and must figure out how he was compromised and who he can trust. Not making this any easier, his trainer from The Farm, Stan Hurley, who has no love for the cocky new recruit even though Mitch saved his life in "American Assassin," believes this blood-bath was Mitch going over the edge. When the DDO, Thomas Stansfield, orders him to send over a group of operatives to find and if necessary, neutralize Mitch, he chooses "Victor" to lead the group - a goon of a trainer to whom we were introduced in "American Assassin." Aside from being a narcissistic sadist, Victor also has a personal score to settle with Mitch, who turned the tables on him, broke his arm, and made a complete fool of him during his training - something no one has ever done to Victor. The cat and mouse game that ensues, including treason and collusion by some in the U.S. and French intelligence agencies, makes for a great read.

There have been several negative reviews of this book based on the lack of action. While I wouldn't consider this the most action-packed of the Mitch Rapp novels nor suggest this as a starting point for anyone not familiar with the series, there was more than enough suspense to make it very interesting and entertaining. As someone who has read the whole series, I found "American Assassin" and "Kill Shot" to be interesting back-stories providing additional character development. Since these are prequels and we know where certain individuals end up and the relationships that have formed from the earlier (chronologically later) books, we're given more character depth.

As to the book ending at the 71% mark on Kindle, Mr. Flynn has addressed this in an e-mail to his readers and has already worked with those involved to correct it. They included free excerpts from his previous books in the e-book format which, because it's considered content, was included in the percentage calculation. I seriously doubt Mr. Flynn or anyone else was trying to cheat the readers. Even without the content, it's not that short of a book. The hard-back, which doesn't have the excerpts, is 385 pages, so the criticism that this seemed more like a short story is, in my opinion, unfounded.

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Miss E. R. O'Hanlon

Another shot for Mitch Rapp

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 9, 2017

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Kill shot is book 2 of the Mitch Rapp series, and once again we are caught up in a tangled web of deceit and murder.

These books don't have to be read in order, but in my personal opinion I would, because if you start with book 1, you know everyone. Now, this starts with Mitch making his way through the lit of terrorists that he has, when after the hit has been made, things go wrong. Mitch no longer knows who to trust, Irene doesn't know if she can trust Mitch, and through in some politicians all out to get further up the ladder and for some extra cash and you have another inter woven story, that has you hooked from the first page.

I will say that Kill Shot was interesting in hearing of the other players and there agenda's, I did like American Assassin more but I think just because it had more action, But my opinion may change once I read more from this series.

I will admit that this wasn't a series that normally interested me, and I will admit that I only wanted to read American Assassin was because I knew they were making it into a movie and Dylan O'Brien would be in it, and I mean should I say more? But I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed the first one, and knew I needed to read the rest. I like Vince Flynn's writing and even through there is grammar and spelling mistakes, doesn't stop the action and story line.

If you haven't read the Mitch Rapp series, you are missing out and should get reading them.

Happy Reading :)

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Luke

A great prequel and sequel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 11, 2021

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So I'm coming at this series after American Assassin was already considered "the first" Mitch Rapp book to read so I'm reading from a point of view where this is the second book in the series. From that point of view it's a great sequel. It builds in Rapp's reputation as incredibly dangerous and builds on the characters found in the first book. I very much look forward to reading the true "First book" in the series as this was Vince Flynn's first Mitch Rapp story. Will be interesting to see the transition.

Al

Enjoyable spy / assassin thriller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 5, 2015

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A CIA black ops unit, with lots of internal tensions; a traitor in the American government; some international terrorists; a seriously dodgy DGSE monsieur; a best of the best flicess; a few stereotypes; loads of dead bodies; sling them all in the pot; season well with chicanery, deception, skulduggery, double dealing and double crossing; stir well; cook rapidly on a high heat et voila!
I thought, at the early stages, that this was another run of the mill, American, super, duper, uber hero takes on the world and wins story but it is not, it is better than that.
An enjoyable spy / assassin thriller.
I would certainly like to read more of the Mitch Rapp series but they are all priced at more than I expect to pay for a Kindle book, so I will have to wait until they are on offer.

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ReadnReap

Rapp is The American Assassin

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 21, 2013

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This is the second prequel in the Rapp series. I am a huge Vince Flynn fan and was not let down with this book. Mitch Rapp is The Man, to me he is the whole package for a fictional hero. Vince Flynn does it so easily, you are gripped from the start and don't want to put the book down. I have read plenty of other books in this genre but Flynn seems to keep it real. Rapp is fallible and can be hurt but his attention to detail prevents him getting into those impossible situations that most authors tend to rely on almost fantasy outcomes in order get their hero's through it; this is what keeps it real for me. Rapp has one role, if you do some despicable act against America, he will be hunt you down and make you pay.

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jrh

Excellent Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 5, 2022

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An excellent read Tom Vince Flynn in the Mitch Rapp series.
Action filled, not stop, good story, these books are always an entertaining read.