Waiting on Wednesday – Total Power by Kyle Mills (based on the series by Vince Flynn)

Welcome to my weekly segment, Waiting on Wednesday, where I look at upcoming books that I am planning to order and review in the next few months and which I think I will really enjoy. I run this segment in conjunction with the Can’t-Wait Wednesday meme that is currently running at Wishful Endings. Stay tuned to see reviews of these books when I get a copy of them. For my latest Waiting on Wednesday I check out the new upcoming Mitch Rapp thriller novel, Total Power by Kyle Mills.

Total Power Cover

The Mitch Rapp series is an action-packed and long-running spy thriller series that was originally written by bestselling author Vince Flynn. The series currently has 18 books, although the last four novels having been written by Kyle Mills, who has kept the series going after the death of Flynn in 2012. The series follows its titular protagonist, Mitch Rapp, a veteran CIA operative who has spent years hunting down and brutally killing various internal and external threats to America, including terrorists, Russians and corrupt politicians.

This is a particularly fun series that I have been rather enjoying over the last couple of years. I first got into the series back in 2018 when I checked out the rather exciting novel, Red War, which featured a dying president of Russia starting World War III to distract the world from his brain tumour. I had a fantastic time reading this novel due to its cool story premise and over-the-top action sequences, and I ended up grabbing the next novel in the series, 2019’s Lethal Agent. Lethal Agent featured the protagonist going after his more traditional opponents, terrorists, but also featured a compelling storyline about an opportunistic politician. I ended up also really liking the second Mitch Rapp novel that I checked out, so I made sure to keep an eye out for what the next book in the series was, and boy does it sound like a doozy.

This next book is Total Power, which is set for release in mid-September 2020. Total Power will be the 19^th novel in this series, and it certainly sounds like Mills has come up with a fantastic story premise for this new book.

Goodreads Synopsis:

When Mitch Rapp captures ISIS’s top technology expert, he reveals that he was on his way to meet a man who claims to have the ability to bring down America’s power grid. Rapp is determined to eliminate this shadowy figure, but the CIA’s trap fails.

The Agency is still trying to determine what went wrong when ISIS operatives help this cyber terrorist do what he said he could—plunge the country into darkness. With no concept of how this unprecedented act was accomplished, the task of getting the power back on could take months. Perhaps even years.

Rapp and his team embark on a desperate search for the only people who know how to repair the damage—the ones responsible. But his operating environment is like nothing he’s experienced before. Computers and communication networks are down, fuel can no longer be pumped from gas stations, water and sanitation systems are on the brink of collapse, and the supply of food is running out.

Can Rapp get the lights back on before America descends irretrievably into chaos?

I absolutely love the awesome story premise that Mills has come up for this new book. A spy thriller set in an America that has lost all of its electricity has substantial possibilities and I rather think that it’s going to turn out to be something particularly cool. As a result, I am really looking forward to reading Total Power later this year, and I know that I am going to have a fantastic time with this cool story.