AMERICAN ASSASSIN follows the rise of Mitch Rapp ( Dylan O’Brien ) a CIA black ops recruit under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley ( Michael Keaton ). The pair is then enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy ( Sanaa Lathan ) to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets. Together the three discover a pattern in the violence leading them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent ( Shiva Negar ) to stop a mysterious operative ( Taylor Kitsch ) intent on starting a World War in the Middle East. The film is being directed by acclaimed filmmaker Michael Cuesta (Kill The Messenger, Homeland, L.I.E.) from a screenplay by Stephen Schiff (The Americans, Ultimate Rush). Published by Atria Books and in mass market paperback by Pocket Books, both imprints of Simon & Schuster, AMERICAN ASSASSIN is one of fifteen novels set in the world of counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp. Every single one has been a New York Time