Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he’s encountered before. Picking up where the “tour de force” (The Providence Journal) Total Power left off, the next thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series follows the CIA’s top operative as he searches for a high-level mole with the power to rewrite the world order. The Enemy at the Gate provides a timely and masterful account of this most complex and epic of conflicts. As modern Turkey seeks to re-orient its relationship with Europe, a new generation of politicians is exploiting the residual fears and tensions between East and West to hamper this change. Andrew Wheatcroft's extraordinary book shows that this belief is a grievous oversimplification: during the 400 year struggle for domination, the West took the offensive just as often as the East. The Western fears of the East were vivid and powerful and, in their new eyes, the Turks always appeared the sole aggressors. Eastern invaders had always threatened the West: Huns, Mongols, Goths, Visigoths, Vandals and many others. Both sides remained resolute, sustained by hatred of their age-old enemy, certain that their victory would be won by the grace of God. The Turks had set their sights on taking Vienna, the city they had long called 'The Golden Apple' since their first siege of the city in 1529. Within the city walls the choice of resistance over surrender to the largest army ever assembled by the Turks created an all-or-nothing scenario: every last survivor would be enslaved or ruthlessly slaughtered. In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna.
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