Denied Access by Vince Flynn [Paperback]

The novel takes Mitch Rapp back to his early days as a CIA assassin, following the events surrounding American Assassin and Kill Shot. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the CIA is facing a major crisis. A covert operation in Moscow goes badly, leaving a valuable Russian asset captured and the Moscow Station crippled.

Newly recruited into the secretive Orion program, Rapp is called in to help. But the mission becomes personal when his Swiss girlfriend's grandfather receives the severed head of a former Cold War associate along with a threat against her. Rapp is pulled into a dangerous confrontation between American and Russian intelligence agencies, forcing him to risk everything to protect the woman he loves and save the CIA.