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The Survivor
The Survivor
The Survivor
Audiobook (abridged)6 hours

The Survivor

Written by Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills

Narrated by Armand Schultz

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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The #1 New York Times bestselling novel that picks up where the “tight, right, and dynamite” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) The Last Man left off, The Survivor is a no-holds-barred race to save America…and Mitch Rapp’s finest battle.

When Joe “Rick” Rickman, former golden boy of the CIA, steals a massive amount of the Agency’s most classified documents in an elaborate betrayal of his country, CIA director Irene Kennedy has no choice but to send her most dangerous weapon after him: elite covert operative Mitch Rapp.

Rapp quickly dispatches with the traitor, but Rickman proves to be a deadly threat to America even from beyond the grave. In fact, mysterious tip-offs are appearing all over the world, linking to the potentially devastating data that Rickman managed to store somewhere only he knew.

It’s a deadly race to the finish as both the Pakistanis and the Americans search desperately for Rickman’s accomplices, and for the confidential documents they are slowly leaking to the world. To save his country from being held hostage to a country set on becoming the world’s newest nuclear superpower, Mitch Rapp must outrun, outthink, and outgun his deadliest enemies yet in this heart-pounding adventure that proves that Vince Flynn “is a master—maybe the master—of thrillers in which the pages seem to turn themselves” (Bookreporter).
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Release dateOct 6, 2015
ISBN9781442390027
Author

Vince Flynn

#1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn (1966–2013) created one of contemporary fiction’s most popular heroes: CIA counterterrorist agent Mitch Rapp, featured in thirteen of Flynn’s acclaimed political thrillers. All of his novels are New York Times bestsellers, including his stand-alone debut novel, Term Limits.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Kyle Mills captured the character of Mitch Rapp perfectly. The plot and action were vintage Vince Flynn. I enjoyed the book immensely and hope the Flynn estate allow Mills to continue the legacy of Vince Flynn.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The Survivor, A Mitch Rapp Novel: Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills authors, George Guidall, narratorIn this book, the head of the ISI (the Pakistani secret service), has devised a diabolical plan to bring down the CIA and the United States with the help of a former CIA agent turned traitor and a corrupt Senator. The ISI chief is after the head of Irene Kennedy, the CIA director and a rogue agent with a no-nonsense, loose cannon reputation, who is a thorn in his back, Mitch Rapp. Rapp is also known in the world of spies as ?the angel of death?. He is the kind of agent you want as a friend, not an enemy. Even his boss, Kennedy, worries about whether or not his behavior will create problems that she will be unable to mitigate.The ISI chief has decided to secretly siphon off a portion of the billions of aid dollars provided to his country by the Americans. He then uses it to promote the campaigns of U.S. politicians who will then lobby Congress to provide his country with more money that they will again use to entice more corrupt politicians! It would seem that everyone has a price. If you add a disgruntled and disturbed CIA agent with a grudge to the mix and couple him with a corrupt senator, you will have the makings of a novel about espionage, possible treason and cyber warfare. The traitorous former CIA darling, Joe Rickman, has arranged to have information about secret CIA transactions released even after his death, if he is unsuccessful in bringing down his country while he is alive. The release of these damaging documents, revealing the espionage and clandestine activities of America, will have a cataclysmic effect on relationships with allies and enemies alike, and they will surely bring about the deaths of secret agents and double agents, and possibly their families, before they can be extracted.In addition, the heads of Kennedy and Rapp are valuable prizes for international spies because not only would that greatly damage America?s prestige and power, if they were killed and the agency were compromised, but that would also elevate the stature of their killer in his corrupt, terrorist world.Government agencies and officials sometimes find it necessary to engage in behavior that walks a tightrope between legal and illegal. They sponsor theft, lies, kidnapping and even murder, at times, in the name of national security.As Rapp and his fellow agents bounce from country to country as they endeavor to stop the release of the damaging information, the international intrigue widens. The reader will be exposed to the barbaric tactics of the Pakistani methods of interrogation and retribution, as well as to the stretching of the rules by U.S. agents as they attempt to eradicate and stop the damage caused by the traitor.The book sometimes gets bogged down by details that seem unnecessary, that seem to exist just to add pages of print, but otherwise, as a read, it is interesting, and it is a good distraction from the stress of one?s everyday life.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    When I found out about the passing of Vince Flynn I was rather mournful that the page turning Mitch Rapp series would end where it was, thankfully however the torch has been picked up by Kyle Mills. I was a little apprehensive as to how the characters would be channelled through a different author but I am pleased to say it reads just as well as Flynn's earlier works in the series. Don't let the change of author put you off, it's good.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Mitch Rapp has just gotten old and tired in my head... He just does the same thing over and over and over. Ragheads are always the enemy and the Director CIA is always on his side. Read, repeat, read, repeat. so, I gave up in the middle of this one. Maybe I'll take up Mitch Rapp in a year or so and finish the series...maybe not.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Thoroughly enjoyed this, with a twinge of sadness that this wasn't by Flynn. Still, very good start to keeping the series going.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Mitch Rapp is back and ready to save the world. This book started off very slow and dug into a few more characters than usual. It did pick up towards the middle, but still was not as good as the usual Mitch Rapp books (or maybe they have just run their course for me).
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Decent enough story, but I'm just not sure that Kyle Mills really captured Rapp's character that well.?
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I purchased The Survivor in the St. Louis airport on a recent trip because my wife was in the middle of the Robert Crais novel (The forgotten man) I had along for the trip home. I had not read any of the previous Vince Flynn/Mitch Rapp series so this was my introduction. Turns out it is the first book in the series written by Kyle Mills. I enjoyed his series about FBI agent Mark Beamon so given that and the other options, this seemed like a good choice.I do not recommend you read The Survivor as your introduction to the Mitch Rapp series. The first quarter of the book relies quite heavily on knowledge of the primary characters and earlier developments in the series. The situation confronting the protagonists is a direct consequence of events described in The Last Man, an earlier book in the series, and The Survivor reads like the concluding chapter in a continuing story. Without this background it is not clear why events are happening or their overall significance as the story moves from situation to situation. I actually had to write out a list of the characters and their roles as I understood them to make sense of who was doing what. Some of the characters turned out to be inconsequential, but that became clear only later.The Survivor becomes more interesting once the plot moves into the meat of the story and the primary characters become familiar. The story revolves around the plan of a brilliant but unstable CIA agent, Joe Rickman, to destroy the CIA by systematically releasing top secret details about CIA agents and operations. The details, contained in an encrypted file, will be released according to a schedule designed by Rickman. The first three files are released with varying consequences. CIA director Irene Kennedy and Rapp know a large number of files have not yet been released and they scramble to find the remaining files before the cumulative effect destroys their careers and the effectiveness of the CIA. Making matters worse, the head of Pakistan's secret service, the ISI, has aspirations to make Pakistan the world's first super power. His goal is to obtain the files, assassinate the Pakistani President, make himself the ruler of Pakistan, and use the information in the files to bribe and blackmail American politicians and destroy the CIA. He is well ahead of Rapp and his team in their effort to find the files and the situation is critical. Mills overstates the damage the release of the files would cause, a point Rapp explains to leader of the ISI's field agents. Late in the book. That is a minor detraction, however, and I particularly enjoyed the last 100 pages of The Survivor. There are far too many earlier Mitch Rapp novels for me to begin at the beginning but I will consider reading Order to Kill, the next book in the series.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I was initially not going to read this with Vince Flynn being one of my all time favorite authors. The thought of someone else using Mitch Rapp as chief protagonist was both disappointing and a little painful to me, as I was fortunate enough to meet Vince a couple of years before his untimely death from cancer. My father had received this book as a Christmas gift and had read some and told me it was very, very good. I then received a copy for my birthday and decided to dive into it.I'm very, very glad I did.First off, the story is outstanding....no spoilers....bottom line: a disgruntled CIA agent has cleverly set up to have top secret details of past CIA missions made public all over the world from his grave. Familiar characters like Irene Kennedy, Mitch Rapp, Stan Hurley, et. al. all find themselves in deep trouble as the fate of the CIA is in danger from these secrets and they all try desperately to contain the damage. Add to this a plot by Pakistan for a coup to destablize the middle east and US/Pakistan relations and you have a tight, tension filled story right to the end.Secondly, Mitch Rapp is written much in the way I remember him from early Flynn novels, a very welcome surprise. Late Flynn novels lost a bit of Rapp driving the plot throughout the books, but this one recaptures this plot driver in a big way. Rapp appears very much in command in the last 100 or so pages, even when things have basically gone to hell and no one has any idea what to do. This really carried the novel right to the end.Lastly, this book really mirrors current world events, which to me really gives the story a degree of credibility and belief which keeps the reader engaged.Bottom line....perhaps the best Rapp novel since Memorial Day. I am impressed with Mills writing, and I wonder if he will carry the torch for further Mitch Rapp novels.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    didn't like the narrator ...the best one for this series in my opinion is George Guidall
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The Survivor - A Mitch Rapp Novel by Kyle Mills is a wonderful surprise. If you are a fan of the Mitch Rapp novels like I am, you too not only mourned Vince Flynn?s passing, but worried that you would never know how the story line from ?The Last Man? would play out and wondered if Mitch Rapp was gone too. Well I can tell you that Mitch Rapp is alive and well and you will not be disappointed. Kyle has all of our favorite characters down pat and had me grabbed by the story from page one. I was chosen as a Mitch Rapp Ambassador and as excited as I was to be chosen, I was apprehensive that I would be disappointed in how Kyle would handle Mitch. Well Kyle is a master, and I can?t wait to read the next book in the series, the same way I felt after reading a book written by Vince Flynn, and there is no greater complement I can give him than that.When ?The Survivor? begins Joe Rickman is dead but that is just the tip of the iceberg when the secrets he had in his head are being released by some unknown source and the safety of the CIA assets and the organization itself is in jeopardy. Once again Irene Kennedy is looking to Mitch Rapp to save the day. Pick up ?The Survivor? to see how the story begun in ?The Last Man? plays out.