Mitch Rapp has worked for several presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he’s encountered before. Cunning and autocratic, he feels no loyalty to America’s institutions and is distrustful of the influence Rapp and CIA director Irene Kennedy have in Washington.
Despite the tensions, when Kennedy discovers evidence of a mole scouring the Agency’s database for sensitive information on Nicholas Ward, the world’s trillionaire, she persuades Rapp to take a job protecting him. In doing so, he finds himself walking an impossible tightrope: keep the man alive, but also use him as bait to uncover a traitor with seemingly unlimited access to government secrets.
As the attacks on Ward become increasingly dire, Rapp and Kennedy are dragged into a world where the lines between governments, multinational corporations and the hyper-wealthy fade. Only the pursuit of power remains.
