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Title: Lethal Agent
Series: Mitch Rapp #18
Author: Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre: Thriller
Pages: 321
Words: 101K
Wicked, wicked nasty politics. And Irene Kennedy is pretty much helpless.
Yeah, I don’t buy it for a second. Kennedy was trained by one of the best CIA agents whoever sat behind a desk. She knows how the game is played and even as the game changes, she is brilliant enough to stay ahead of it. Instead, she’s a stupid lackwit running three steps behind everything. I’ve complained about Mills not knowing how to utilize Kennedy and this book spotlighted that weakness. Like a prison spotlight on an escaping prisoner.
Gahhhhhh! While I’m not a fan of politics, the original author did a great job of working it into the series. Mills can’t do it, so he needs to stay away from that arena all together. This was ham handed, ham fisted, heck, it was Christmas ham’d. I can’t read this kind of thing any more. So I’m stopping Mitch Rapp until a new author takes over the franchise.
★★★☆☆
From Kylemills.com
A toxic presidential election is underway in an America already badly weakened by internal divisions. While politicians focus entirely on maintaining their own power and privilege, ISIS kidnaps a brilliant French microbiologist and forces him to begin manufacturing anthrax. Slickly produced videos chronicling his progress and threatening an imminent attack are posted to the Internet, intensifying the hysteria gripping the US.
ISIS recruits a Mexican drug cartel to smuggle the bioweapon across the border, but it’s really just a diversion. The terrorist organization needs to keep Mitch Rapp and Irene Kennedy distracted long enough to weaponize a deadly virus that they stumbled upon in Yemen. If they succeed, they’ll trigger a pandemic that could rewrite the world order.
Rapp embarks on a mission to infiltrate the Mexican cartels and track down the ISIS leader who he failed to kill during their last confrontation. But with Washington’s political elite increasingly lined up against him, he knows he’ll be on his own.
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