Grisha was under attack and the love of his life, Cara who turned a robotic killer into a someone who has something to lose. 

Rapp is to the rescue of course, but not before Cara was injured. 

The Russian president is behind the attack. But why?

To find out that the Russian President want war, and Rapp is there to try to eliminate the reason for war and try to save lives again. Rapp sometimes sound like more Superman than James Bond. 

Grisha want nothing more than to live the good life and spend time surfing with his girlfriend. That's not easier said than done when the people he pissed off are dangerous and he really has no friend. His only friend is Rapp really. Not even Coleman has he is responsible for his serious injury that has taken a year to heal. 

A nice story. Not as much action as the previous one. 

Mitch Rapp have found out that an ISIS supporter in the rank of Saudi and now the American President want this to be deal with without the official order. 

This is so outrageous and unfair to Mitch Rapp. Of course he is going to do it. 

As story goes, there is no one in his life except for the widow of the man who killed his wife and derailed his life. The guilt of being a participant of such tragedy bring Claudia into Mitch life, first as a decorator for his new house, and now as his partner handling logistics. 

Coleman is still out and tried to heal after the last mission. He recommended Claudia too. 

Situation arise that pushed this decision. Finally, Claudia is going to be his partner. 

The bad guys are well hidden. The ruthless Saudi has killed off ties that could reveal his secret as a traitor. 

FBI Joel is the guy being used to hunt Mitch. 

Nice action bit. A bit too much at times but it is fun to read as there are more intelligent bad guys make it more challenging. 

Irene involvement is minimum yet important. 

Mitch is being distracted by the widow of the killer who killed his late wife. Weird.

Claudia is the late wife and Ann is the daughter. They were being hidden in South Africa when words got out that they were being targeted for kidnapping and probably killed. A new player is in town and he is just as good as Mitch. Rare but possible.

Then there is a lot of trap and twists and a bit too risky even for someone as skill as Mitch Rapp. Then it would be just plot device to add lot of tension and action into the story. 

The more interesting plot is while the world leaders are acting more like sciopaths, the assassins themselves are more human than those politicians. In a way, it is strange. 

There is also humor and some laugh out loud moments. Coleman was hurt in this one and it got a bit emotional. 

Going to read the next one and see what happened next. 

Joseph Rickman might be dead but his plan was still on-going. 

Richman has this very intelligent plan of leaking damaging information regarding the CIA actions in the past that would be very damaging. Two of such email has already been sent and this is very worrying that more is likely to come. The obvious target is Irene and Mitch. 

Gould is the one who is causing all the pain for Mitch. He killed the love of his life Ann while she was pregnant. Mitch has a chance to kill him but he let him go and continue his life with wife and kid. 

The ungrateful Gould didn't do as promise and get back into business. 

Other players are involved. All is trying to get to the secrets and used its advantage for blackmail and caused maximum damage. 

Overall, it did caught the spirit of things. Although not enough twists, there is still enough action to keep things interesting. 

Mitch is not young anymore. He used his youth to gain lot of experience in dealing with really horrible persons. It is scary to know that he would not hesitate to kill if he thought that person would do harm to innocent people. 

So when he was hunting down a terrorist head, he go at it with all he got. And he almost got it. 

Now it is the turn of the terrorist to hunt him back. 

He got more than one side of of enemy that he has to deal with. An crazy politician is running for president and is likely to get in position. This is a mean bitch who is pretty selfish and would do anything, including harming innocent people if she could gain more vote and more power. 

The rest is just a bit of nicely laid out plan that could work if there is no one to stop the bad guys. 

The use of deadly virus in the plot is very timely and scary as well. 

Good read.