Kill Shot: An American Assassin Thriller

Kill Shot: An American Assassin Thriller by Vince Flynn, 385 pages

Well, just about everything you need to know about this book is either in the title or on the cover. It's a thriller about an American assassin in Paris. Mitch Rapp (great name, I know) is methodically hunting down bad guys when his assassination of a Libyan diplomat goes wrong: a herd of Middle Eastern terrorists (is that the correct collective noun, herd? Is it a bunch? It's not a whole cell...) storms the room, guns blazing, leading Rapp to the correct assumption that he'd been set up. But by whom???

This was a bad book. It was filled with stereotypical cardboard characters (those Middle Eastern terrorists had names like Aziz, Samir, and Habib, even though most of them died within pages of being named) and shootouts that would have played much better in a Michael Bay movie. This would be better served as a movie to watch on a rainy Sunday afternoon when you're too lazy to change the channel to something with more substance, like Jersey Shore.