Enemy at the Gates (20) (A Mitch Rapp Novel)

As usual brilliantly written, definitely waiting for next book to see what happens, love the fact that it’s up to date with world events

I’ve been a committed fan all along so the disappointment is real. Utterly weird plot. New world order / old world order nonsense and I wasn’t entirely sure what the point of it all was. And nothing in the world is going to convince me that Mike Nash would turn traitor because he wants to be on the side of those in power who believe the muggles of the world need hardship and something to struggle against and he wants to be protected from the mob of humanity when it all gets too much. It really is as bonkers as that.

A long ways ago (1997) I came across Kyle Mills in Rising Phoenix and I was singularly impressed with the Mark Beamon series. In the early 2000's I began reading the Mitch Rapp series and was immediately hooked. Each of the Mitch Rapp books were like dangerous travelogues. Just my idea of late night reading. Shortly after Vince Flynn passed away, Kyle was tapped to carry on the franchise and carry it on he has done well. In Enemy At The Gates, Rapp faces new foes, inside and outside of DC, leaving him wondering if he should carry on in government service. A new administration and with it, a mole plowing thru a very sensitive database, looking for data on the world's first trillionaire. Rapp is asked to guard a man who cannot keep a low profile and won't stay put. James Bond devices, fast moving cars and choppers, deceitful characters, and a last minute plot twist you will not see coming. Happy reading.

Kyle Mills hits it out of the park with this latest Mitch Rapp novel. Struggling to balance his new life outside of Washington, Mitch gets pulled into the middle of a saga different than anything he has ever encountered before. Not the Russians and not a Terrorist faction, Mitch deals with the threat coming from a very unexpected source. I could not put this book down and lost sleep a couple of nights reading it. The book is full of action, drama and betrayal. All of the elements to make this a must read.

I have been reading this series from the beginning and have always loved the characters and stories. When Mr. Mills took it over it was almost like Me. Flynn was still with us writing through him. This book however seems to have taken a step back from the action and is also changing the characters ever so slightly. It may be that Mr. Mills is going to take them in a completely new direction where the core group will no longer be working directly for the CIA and instead are branching out to have and do there on private spy thing. That would be pretty cool see. As much as I love the world that Vince Flynn has created it may be time to move on in a different direction. All this is just speculation but it would be an interesting way to keep the core of the characters together, in the same world, but in a new storyline. One in which Mitch, Irene, Scott and his team are now doing what they do best just in a private capacity instead of for the government. That being said I hope it doesn't turn into more of a political bashing of the United States government and our democracy. There was a little of that in this book. As long as Mr. Mills stays true to Vince Flynn's original message then this could be a great new chapter in these characters lives.