AMERICAN ASSASSIN follows the rise of Mitch Rapp [Dylan O'Brien]; a CIA black ops recruit under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley [Michael Keaton]. The pair is then enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy [Sanaa Lathan] to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets. Together the three discover a pattern in the violence leading them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent [Shiva Negar] to stop a mysterious operative [Taylor Kitsch] intent on starting a World War in the Middle East.