The story begins with Mitch Rapp, a young adult who just came out of a collegiate sports career has lost nearly everything when his girlfriend, Mary, passed away on pan am flight 103 when it is overrun by terrorists and later crashed. Looking for a way to get back, he is brought into an off site training facility by Irene Kennedy run by a former CIA agent Stan hurley. There, along with six other recruits, He is pushed through immense fitness and combat training that pushes him and the others to their limits. The book starts to heat up when the amount of recruits go from seven to two due to things such as broken body parts, leaked confidential information and just plain out quitting. After the six months are over, Rapp and one other guy made it through the process and our now in the field.
Next, Rapp is sent on his first mission, to kill an international arms dealer by the name of Hamdi Sharif. Although he was supposed to wait 5 days in Istanbul for the rest of the “Orion team” (Rapp, Hurley, and Richards) to arrive. …show more content…
He finds out the man who was behind pan am flight 103 attack that killed his girlfriend and he plots his revenge to kill him. This is when the audience finds out that Mitch’s whole motive was to get retribution for his fallen girlfriend. However the man who Rapp has been hunting is expecting him and sets up a trap for Rapp. The book ends with Rapp finding a way out and later finishing off the man behind it all. The main conflict of this story was the terrorism going on within the continents of europe and the middle east so it would be Man Vs Society. There are many themes in this book but one could be never trust anyone you truly don't know, Stan Hurley even says to Rapp during his training “Never trust anyone, not even me.” This just shows that in this field of work there is nobody you can trust besides yourself and you can be blindsided at any moment by