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Not a Mitch Rapp Novel
First and foremost, this isn't a Mitch Rapp novel. It is a Russian bad guy novel that has Mitch Rapp as a minor character. There is none of the classic Rapp personality, no Rapp character development, almost none of the classic dialog with Irene and Mitch. One example of the Rapp persona being way off is in his conversation with his girlfriend's daughter. Mitch sees her walking home, she mentions working on a horse stall, and in Mitch's inner dialog he says "she'd been wearing him down on this horse crap since she moved in." No shot classic Rapp has that inner dialog when thinking about a child. Complete swing and miss there. The plot line seems like a pretty poor copy of Spymaster by Brad Thor. The Mills books in the Rapp series have seemed to be very uneven in an alternating pattern. I thought the first one was pretty good, the second really bad, the third installment was pretty good, and this one just totally missed the mark in my opinion.
October 2018 · Books · verified purchase