Transfer of Power.

Transfer of Power (1999) is the first novel in Vince Flynn's celebrated Mitch Rapp series and the book that launched one of the most commercially successful franchises in the history of American political thriller fiction. The novel opens with a devastating terrorist assault on Washington, D.C., in which a well-funded extremist group seizes nearly a hundred hostages inside the White House while the President is rushed to an underground bunker — setting the stage for CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp to navigate the hidden corridors and secret passageways of the capital in a race against time, complicated by a treacherous conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of the Washington establishment. The novel reached number thirteen on the New York Times paperback bestseller chart, establishing the commercial foundation for a series that would go on to sell more than fifteen million copies in the United States alone during Flynn's lifetime.