Mitch Rapp is a fictional character in a series of novels that were written by Vince Flynn and in the film adaptation of American Assassin.
17 Facts About Mitch Rapp
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Mitch Rapp had been one of thirty-five Syracuse students returning from a semester overseas.
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Mitch Rapp attended Syracuse University, where he majored in international business and minored in French.
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Mitch Rapp attended the college on a lacrosse scholarship and was an All-American.
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Mitch Rapp was offered a scholarship by the University of North Carolina, but turned that one down because his high school sweetheart Maureen was attending Syracuse with the hope of getting into broadcasting.
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Maureen, whom Mitch Rapp had known since he was sixteen years old, was killed in the December 21,1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
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Mitch Rapp had been one of thirty-five Syracuse students returning from a semester overseas.
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Mitch Rapp began training the week after graduating from Syracuse.
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Only twenty-three years old at the time, Mitch Rapp did not go through the standard CIA training program at "The Farm", outside Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Mitch Rapp was then taught Arabic and Persian and can passably speak Urdu and Pashto.
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Mitch Rapp then became an operative of the Orion Team, a highly secretive organization supported by the CIA but outside the Agency.
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Mitch Rapp has been the Orion Team's star operative almost from the day he started and has been honed into the most effective counterterrorism operative in America's arsenal.
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Mitch Rapp's only remaining family is his brother, Steven Rapp, a millionaire financial genius.
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Mitch Rapp has close ties with "SEAL Demolition and Salvage Corporation", a private military company specializing in underwater salvage such as getting rid of debris for ports and shipyards and training law enforcement divers, but whose employees work from time to time as freelance operatives for the CIA.
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Mitch Rapp is owned and operated by Scott Coleman, former commanding officer of SEAL Team Six and friend of Rapp.
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Antoine Fuqua was originally attached to direct, with several names being rumored to play Mitch Rapp, including Gerard Butler, Colin Farrell and Matthew Fox, but the studio announced some major changes in June 2011.
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One of these changes was that although the first film in the series was initially going to be based on an earlier novel, it would now be based it on a later instalment, American Assassin, which explains how Mitch Rapp became a CIA officer.