Protect and Defend

Its place in Mitch Rapp

Protect and Defend is book 8 in the Mitch Rapp series. It follows Act of Treason. It is followed by Extreme Measures. See the full Mitch Rapp reading order.

Mitch Rapp is the CIA's off-the-books answer to terrorism: a counterterrorism operative recruited out of Syracuse after the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing kills his college sweetheart, then forged into America's most lethal covert weapon. Under the protection of legendary spymaster Thomas Stansfield, his hard-charging protege Irene Kennedy and trainer Stan Hurley, Rapp does the things presidents need done but can never acknowledge — and spends nearly as much energy fighting Washington's politicians, leakers and…