From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin comes a pulse-pounding thriller that โis an old school spy storyโฆupdated with heavy helpings of international intrigue and domestic politicking and betrayalโ (Library Journal) and puts CIA agent Mitch Rapp in the crosshairs of an enemy even he did not anticipate.
When diplomacy fails and military intervention is inappropriate, our leaders sometimes take a third option and Mitch Rapp has been assigned just such an โunofficialโ taskโtargeting a German industrialist who is supplying a notorious terror sponsor.
But when the mission is dangerously compromised, Rapp realizes heโs been deemed an expendable asset in a power struggle on home turf: the battle over who will become the successor of the dying CIA director. But no one counted on Mitch Rappโs returnโฆor how far heโll go to find out who set him up.
An explosive thriller that is ripped from the headlines, The Third Option proves that โin the world of black-ops thrillers, Mitch Rapp remains the gold standardโ (Booklist, starred review of Red War).