Raiden T. American Assasin.

Right now I am reading American Assassin by Vince Flynn. I am on page 322 of 367.  In the story A guy called Mitch Rapp is described to us as s 23 year old who lost his fiance in a terrorist bombing of an airplane. (not a real bombing just one made up). This younger CIA worker - recruiter stumbles upon him and sees him as a likely candidate for an operative. He gets through the training and beats up an instructor in a fighting match and breaks another ones arm. Basically saying, he has skill. When he is done with training he is sent on an assassination and breaks the rules but he gets the job done faster and cleaner than the CIA can do. Rapp, one of his old instructors ( Hurley) , and an agent he went through training with (Richards) are sent on an a negotiation - get the captured agent out alive in Beirut when Hurley and Richards get captured by the same terrorists that captured the other agent. they are tortured a little bit and Rapp is stuck not knowing where they are or what to do. I think it is interesting because Flynn shows an exciting sequence of events that could be possible in the world of the CIA. The author wrote this book because it is the beginning of a series he has been writing. His motivation was to show us Rapp's first mission and how he dealt with training. I am not sure there is a big picture in this book but if there is it is about trying to get over the past and how Rapp deals with the death of his fiance. I think the best character would be Rapp. The author makes him look like a sensible guy who while has his good moments can be a little out of control or rash. So he is not too good to be true. He has been able to think less about the terrorist bombing in the book because he has been kept busy with his new job and he is able to experience some revenge at this point. I do wonder why there is a business man being held hostage and why a CIA agent was sent to negotiate his release and why the terrorists have been holding them for so long.