[ Mitch Rapp ]
edited 2026-06-19A complete reading and viewing order for the Mitch Rapp franchise — 24 thriller novels by Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, and Don Bentley, plus the 2017 film American Assassin. Covers both publication order (Flynn's recommended path) and in-universe chronological order, where the prequel novels American Assassin, Kill Shot, and Denied Access come first.
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2010The eleventh novel in publication order by Vince Flynn, published in 2010, but the first chronologically. Set before all previous books, it…
448 pp›02NOVEL
2012The twelfth novel in publication order by Vince Flynn, published in February 2012, but the second chronologically. A young Mitch Rapp, worki…
416 pp›03NOVEL
2025The twenty-fourth novel in publication order, the second written by Don Bentley, published in September 2025. Set directly after Kill Shot,…
430 pp›04NOVEL
1999The debut Mitch Rapp novel by Vince Flynn, published in July 1999. A terrorist attack on the White House leaves the president of the United…
528 pp›05NOVEL
2000The second Mitch Rapp novel by Vince Flynn, published in 2000. After a covert operation in Germany goes wrong and a CIA colleague is killed,…
432 pp›06NOVEL
2001The third Mitch Rapp novel by Vince Flynn, published in 2001. As a new CIA director attempts to rein in the agency's covert activities, Rapp…
544 pp›07NOVEL
2003The fourth Mitch Rapp novel by Vince Flynn, published in 2003. A botched covert raid in the Philippines threatens to expose the United State…
384 pp›08NOVEL
2004The fifth Mitch Rapp novel by Vince Flynn, published in 2004. Intelligence reveals that al-Qaeda is planning a catastrophic attack on Washin…
416 pp›09NOVEL
2005The sixth Mitch Rapp novel by Vince Flynn, published in October 2005. The wealthy Saudi father of a terrorist Rapp killed hires two of the w…
480 pp›10NOVEL
2006The seventh Mitch Rapp novel by Vince Flynn, published in 2006. A car bomb kills the vice-presidential candidate during the U.S. election ca…
451 pp›11NOVEL
2007The eighth Mitch Rapp novel by Vince Flynn, published in 2007. An explosion at Iran's primary nuclear facility triggers a power struggle wit…
432 pp›12NOVEL
2008The ninth Mitch Rapp novel by Vince Flynn, published in 2008. A series of apparently unconnected attacks on CIA personnel inside Afghanistan…
416 pp›13NOVEL
2009The tenth Mitch Rapp novel by Vince Flynn, published in 2009. In the aftermath of a terrorist bombing in Washington, D.C. that killed dozens…
431 pp›14NOVEL
2024The twenty-third novel in publication order, the first written by Don Bentley, published in 2024. Set in 2011, the novel follows Rapp as he…
352 pp›15NOVEL
2012The thirteenth novel in publication order by Vince Flynn, published in November 2012. A CIA station chief in Afghanistan is discovered near…
432 pp›16NOVEL
2015The fourteenth novel in publication order, the first written by Kyle Mills following Vince Flynn's death in 2013. A former CIA director has…
464 pp›17NOVEL
2016The fifteenth novel in the series, written by Kyle Mills, published in 2016. Russia is orchestrating the theft of Pakistani nuclear weapons,…
384 pp›18NOVEL
2017The sixteenth novel in the series, written by Kyle Mills, published in 2017. The Saudi royal family is implicated in financing a terrorist n…
400 pp›19NOVEL
2018The seventeenth novel in the series, written by Kyle Mills, published in 2018. Russian President Maxim Krupin, secretly battling a terminal…
370 pp›20NOVEL
2019The eighteenth novel in the series, written by Kyle Mills, published in 2019. A Mexican drug cartel agrees to smuggle anthrax developed by a…
370 pp›21NOVEL
2020The nineteenth novel in the series, written by Kyle Mills, published in 2020. ISIS operatives simultaneously destroy America's power grid an…
384 pp›22NOVEL
2021The twentieth novel in the series, written by Kyle Mills, published in 2021. Russian President Krupin resumes his machinations, this time ma…
384 pp›23NOVEL
2022The twenty-first novel in the series, written by Kyle Mills, published in 2022. A new U.S. president targets Rapp for elimination, believing…
384 pp›24NOVEL
2023The twenty-second novel in the series, written by Kyle Mills, published in 2023. A Russian bioweapons scientist defects with evidence of a n…
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