The number one New York Times best-selling series is back with the most shocking revelation of all. After years of facing international threats, President Jack Ryan learns that the greatest dangers always come from within….
It begins with a family dinner in Princeton, New Jersey. After months at sea, US Navy commander Scott Hagan, captain of the USS James Greer, is on leave when he is attacked by an armed man in a crowded restaurant. Hagan is shot, but he manages to fight off the attacker. Though severely wounded, the gunman reveals he is a Russian whose brother was killed when his submarine was destroyed by Commander Hagan’s ship.
Hagan demands to know how the would-be assassin knew his exact location, but the man dies before he says more.
In the international arrivals section of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport, a Canadian businessman puts his fingerprint on a reader while chatting pleasantly with the customs official. Seconds later he is shuffled off to interrogation. He is actually an American CIA operative who has made this trip into Iran more than a dozen times, but now the Iranians have his fingerprints and know who he is. He is now a prisoner of the Iranians.
As more deadly events involving American military and intelligence personnel follow all over the globe, it becomes clear that there has been some kind of massive information breach and that a wide array of America’s most dangerous enemies have made a weapon of the stolen data. With US intelligence agencies potentially compromised, it’s up to John Clark and the rest of The Campus to track the leak to its source.
Their investigation uncovers an unholy threat that has wormed its way into the heart of our nation. A danger that has set a clock ticking and can be stopped by only one man…President Jack Ryan.
They don’t make em like they used to.. Having read all the series and followed each new release since the early 1990s. I can say this wasn’t the caliber of writing Clancy put out. It’s a ok story, its not as detailed or riveting as many of the past novels. The technical details of warfare were introduced in a lackluster manner, Clark’s and Ryan Sr roles weren’t as large as previous.Â
Chasing the origins of and reasons for death and destruction Another Mark Greaney/ Tom Clancy story, directly out of the headlines of 2016 and into 2017, contains international tensions, dark web sociopaths, and spies, along with a cooperative cabinet of President Jack Ryan. The Hendley group expands with no time to fully train before mayhem erupts across the USA. While ISIS recruits happily martyr themselves, oil billionaires want to enhance the value of Middle East oil. Although Greaney ties up all of the components of the story, I did not want the…
Not A Literary Classic, But This is A Good, Entertaining Diversion Worth the Money & Time Spent Reading It *** LANGUAGE ALERT***Â