Denied Access: A Mitch Rapp Novel by Don Bentley

Vince Flynn's Denied Access, written by Don Bentley, completes the trilogy that began with American Assassin. The novel returns Mitch Rapp to his early days as an assassin, continuing from where Kill Shot ended. The CIA faces a crisis following the Soviet Union's collapse, with Congress questioning the agency's relevance. Interim Director Thomas Stansfield must defend the organization's survival while investigating the murder of a previous director candidate found in a French hotel. A failed intelligence operation in Moscow has resulted in the arrest of America's top Russian asset and the expulsion of his CIA handler, leaving the Moscow Station crippled. Stansfield recruits Mitch Rapp, a newly trained assassin in the covert Orion program, for help. However, Rapp confronts his own crisis when his Swiss girlfriend Greta's grandfather receives a severed head of a former Cold War associate, accompanied by a threat against Greta's life. Caught between protecting the woman he loves and preventing the CIA's destruction, Rapp must navigate a dangerous conflict between American and Russian intelligence services.