Lethal Agent, by Kyle Mills

Mitch Rapp just keeps getting tougher.  Although Vince Flynn died a few years ago, Kyle Mills has kept up the exciting novels featuring Rapp as the super agent without whom the world might go to hell in a hand basket.  In Lethal Agent, we learn that a nemesis from the past has survived and has launched a plot to deploy bioweapons in the U.S.  He knows that from his cave hideout in Pakistan, he can never match the military prowess of the U.S., but with a virus in the right place, he can bring down a nation and the global economy.

Rapp and his men try to track down their foe in the desert, but fall into an ambush that they barely survive (and dozens of jihadists don't).  After the jihadists try to use cartel smugglers to bring some anthrax into the U.S., Rapp gets on the case, going undercover with the cartel.  While he's going to these great lengths to save the world, a senator with White House ambitions is trying to bring him down.  Enemies within and without.

Is Rapp over-the-top?  Is he so deadly and so hard to kill that he sometimes becomes cartoonishly unbelievable?  Maybe.  But that doesn't change the fact that Lethal Agent is as fun to read as the rest of the series.  If you like the good guys to win, and the best country to dominate, wave the American flag, read Lethal Agent, and be thankful for our military and intelligence folks who are willing to go to great lengths to protect and serve.