Enemy at the Gates (Mitch Rapp Book 20)

This book started off great and was looking like it would be one of my favorites BUT toward the end began to go downhill. It got worse and worse and the last chapters and the ending were so bad I couldn't give it more than 1 star and that's too many. I felt angry and disgusted when I closed the book. Surely my copy of the book was flawed and missing a couple chapters that tied up some of the loose ends. Mills must have been desperate trying to come up with some sort of shocking final twist.

Another review suggested long-time avid Rapp/Flynn fans (like me) should not read this book. I totally agree! I wish I hadn't.

I was a fan of Flynn's. I think Rapp is one of the best characters in this genre (the other being John Welles from Alex Berenson). Mills has done a decent job of carrying on since Flynn's death. This book started off well enough but really got bogged down fairly quickly. I simply didn't care about the characters or the ridiculous plot of the first trillionaire who inexplicably lives in Africa. In an unstable part to boot. The more interesting part of the plot took place in D.C. with the machinations of the administration, though the dialogue between the President and the First Lady was not particularly believable. I don't want to give any spoilers. The ending concerning a long running character was even more absurd. Ridiculous in fact. And the book doesn't resolve many issues. Perhaps there was a deadline for Mills. At any rate I will not be buying any subsequent Rapp novels.

I feel i have been ripped off. Such a good story with no ending. You must be kidding , this ending left me nothing but. Mad. I think I may be done with your thievery.

I have been reading this series from the beginning and have always loved the characters and stories. When Mr. Mills took it over it was almost like Me. Flynn was still with us writing through him. This book however seems to have taken a step back from the action and is also changing the characters ever so slightly. It may be that Mr. Mills is going to take them in a completely new direction where the core group will no longer be working directly for the CIA and instead are branching out to have and do there on private spy thing. That would be pretty cool see. As much as I love the world that Vince Flynn has created it may be time to move on in a different direction. All this is just speculation but it would be an interesting way to keep the core of the characters together, in the same world, but in a new storyline. One in which Mitch, Irene, Scott and his team are now doing what they do best just in a private capacity instead of for the government. That being said I hope it doesn't turn into more of a political bashing of the United States government and our democracy. There was a little of that in this book. As long as Mr. Mills stays true to Vince Flynn's original message then this could be a great new chapter in these characters lives.

Mike is flawed, just like all the characters in the Flynn books.
But he is a Boy Scout. And a Marine. While he has ticked me off in a couple recent books, he has never dropped to the level of duplicity shown in this book. I am profoundly annoyed and upset that Mills took the story in this direction.
And I can’t believe I held off reading the new Silva book for this book. Let’s hope Silva can do a better job.

I don't even know how to talk about this book without spoilers so unfortunately my review probably won't make sense until after you read the book. Overall the book flows well and the store is interesting. I worry that it's a little too close to current events but that's fine. The Rapp character is growing older and mildly changing but in a good way.

If you have read the whole Rapp series your gonna have a pretty huge problem with this book. This is where it gets hard to review without spoilers. One of the characters that has been there from the beggining completely changes and makes choices that are central to the book and quite frankly not possible for the character on many levels.

Its aggravating and offensive that all the people involved with producing this book think this is ok

I have been a fan of the Mitch Rapp series for a very long time. This book was a very good story with all of the complexity and thrills of this series, but. I'll get to the but in a minute. Most of this book takes place in Africa - Uganda and South Africa and involves an unbelievably wealthy man, a brilliant young researcher (funded by the wealthy man) and a war between financial power and political power. Also thrown into the story are problems revolving around oil, pandemics and betrayal at many levels.

And then comes the but. As many reviewers have said - the end is not really an end. It is clear that the next book in the series is going to have to be the answer to many lingering issues. Also, and more disturbing for me, the book raised too many questions about where loyalty resides - whether it is necessarily reliable - and how much power should be left in the hands of politicians. Also - how much power should rest in the hands of one unbelievably wealthy person. The book doesn't give answers, but it raises so many questions that probably cannot be answered. As I said - this story left me seriously unsettled. But it was definitely interesting and complex enough to keep me reading late into the night.

I have read every Rapp book from the beginning of the series, and have never experienced such a confused and incomplete ending. I was so shocked when I realized I had just read the last page, that I thought that chapters were missing from the Kindle version. There was a clear direction and strong plot lines though 3/4 of the book and then nothing happened other than a shocking misplaced end to one of the main series characters. I am left bewildered, annoyed and scratching my head wondering what happened to the authors usual crisp direction and conclusions.

I am also concerned with what appears to be a trend of making the key characters seem inept and geriatric. Is this the end of Rapp? It sure feels as if it is! Sad is all I feel.

Mitch Rapp has been morphed into a politically correct wimp and the story has few if any redeeming qualities. Story Kinda stupid unlike Vince’s plausible tales. Bought By accident after reading all of Flynn’s books and sadly, like so many “follow on authors” this is yet another example of “there’s no substitute for the Original”. Can not recommend to any Mitch Rapp (Flynn’s original) readers. Too bad.

Not quite sure how to describe this book. Oh, it says so many of the ideologies I believe is happening to this country and its people and the world even. But somehow this wasn’t the Mitch Rapp I have come to know and love. The guy who helps me escape from things. Maybe, besides our trillionaire , there seemed to be too much reality in this book. Our superhero rapp was just a man involved with politics. Even Kennedy was weak. No, I am disappointed with this book. Three cheers for Claudia and Anna for not changing!