The Third Option
Rancorous political infighting surrounds the selection of a successor to  the dying head of the CIA just as Mitch Rapp, the agency's top operative,  embarks on a dangerous mission to take out a well-known German industrialist  believed to be supplying Middle East terrorists with highly sensitive equipment  critical to constructing a nuclear bomb. When Rapp's ultimately successful  mission is compromised from within, ailing CIA director Thomas Stansfield puts  his imprimatur on the efforts of his chosen successor, Irene Kennedy, director  of the agency's Counterterrorism Center, to identify the powerful interests both  inside and outside the agency that wanted Rapp to fail.The motive soon becomes clear; there are people who'll stop at nothing to remove  Kennedy from the helm of the agency after Stansfield dies. One thing they didn't  count on was Rapp's survival, and now he's a lethal weapon whose sights are  fixed directly on the most powerful among them. This is a strong, swift  thriller, a bit predictable (the senator in the black hat has dogs named Caesar  and Brutus) but nonetheless involving. Author Vince Flynn sustains the dramatic  tension from the opening paragraph to the last; in Mitch Rapp, he's got the  makings of a promising series hero.--Jane Adams--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.