Ghost (American Assassin)

Ghost (real name Ronnie) is the main antagonist of American Assassin.

He is a former Orion operative turned terrorist who plans on building a nuclear weapon. He is also Mitch Rapp's arch-nemesis until Ghost's death.

He was portrayed by Taylor Kitsch in his first villain role.

Biography
While verifying the sale of the weapon in Poland, Ghost immediately kills the sellers as well as two police officers before fleeing. He intends on selling the weapon to a buyer in Istanbul, and Orion is sent to intercept him. However, the mission fails, but Mitch Rapp pursues the buyer to his apartment, killing the man and taking his laptop. In Rome, while spying on a nuclear physicist, Ghost and his men capture Mitch and Annika, but are soon saved by Hurley. While meeting with a contact, Hurley is later attacked and captured by Ghost, and is taken to his hideout. At the hideout, Ghost tortures Hurley, during which Hurley deduces that Ghost is using his employers, and Ghost promptly kills them. Mitch later infiltrates the hideout, eventually ramming his car into the building and causing a massive explosion that destroys the hideout. Mitch frees Hurley, but Ghost later holds Annika hostage while escaping. Annika shoots herself, and Mitch pursues Ghost at sea, where he intends on destroying the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet in a kamikaze attack. Mitch boards Ghost's boat and after a long and brutal fistfight, manages to kill Ghost by stabbing him in the throat with his own knife. Mitch later disposes of the nuclear bomb just before it explodes, the bomb wiping out Ghost's boat and taking him with it but failing to destroy the Sixth Fleet.