Maureen, whom Rapp had known since he was sixteen years old, was killed in the Decembombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Rapp was also offered a scholarship by the University of North Carolina, but turned that one down because his high school sweetheart Maureen was attending Syracuse with the hope of getting into broadcasting. He attended the college on a lacrosse scholarship and was an All-American. Rapp attended Syracuse University, where he majored in international business and minored in French. His main conflicts center on foreign terrorists. Over the course of the series Rapp terminates a large number of terrorists both on foreign and domestic soil. One year later he was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency by Irene Kennedy. She had been one of thirty-five Syracuse students returning from a semester overseas. Rapp's high school sweetheart Maureen Eliot, who was attending Syracuse University with Rapp, was killed in the Decembombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The primary focus of the character is thwarting foreign terrorist attacks on the United States and he is presented as an aggressive operative who is willing to take measures that are more extreme than might be considered commonly acceptable. Rapp is a counter-terrorism operative, employed, first unofficially then officially, by the CIA.

Since Flynn's death in 2013, the series has been continued by Kyle Mills. Mitch Rapp is a fictional character in a series of novel by Vince Flynn and in the film adaptation of American Assassin. Special Assistant to the Director of the CIA on CounterterrorismĪnna Rielly (from Executive Power to Consent to Kill)

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