Tom Clancy's Under Fire: INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN (Jack Ryan Jr) - Softcover

Blackwood, Grant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140592215X ISBN 13: 9781405922159

Publisher: Penguin, 2016

Synopsis

Tom Clancy's Under Fire is the latest breakneck Jack Ryan Jr. adventure novel from one of Clancy's most successful collaborators: Grant Blackwood.

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On a routine intelligence gathering mission in Tehran Jack Ryan, Jr. has lunch with his oldest friend, Seth Gregory, an engineer overseeing a transcontinental railway project. As they part, Seth slips Jack a key, along with a perplexing message.

The next day Jack is summoned to an apartment where two men claim Seth has disappeared, gone to ground with funds for a vital intelligence operation. Jack's oldest friend has turned, they insist, leaving Jack with a warning: If you hear from Seth Gregory, call us immediately, and do not get involved. But they don't know Jack. He won't abandon a friend in need.

Joined by Seth's primary agent Ysabel, an enigmatic Iranian woman who is his only clue to Seth's whereabouts, Jack's pursuit of the truth leads him across Iran, through the war-torn Caucasus, and finally deep into territory coveted by the increasingly aggressive Russian Federation.

Jack soon finds himself lost in a maze of intrigue, lies, and betrayal where no one is who they seem to be - not even Seth. It seems Seth has a secret of his own. A secret that is driving him to the brink of treachery.

Racing against the clock, Jack must unravel the mystery: Who is friend and who is foe? Before it's over, Jack Ryan, Jr., may have to choose between his loyalty to his friend and his loyalty to his country.

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Review:

Praise for the bestselling novels of Tom Clancy
HEART-STOPPING ACTION entertaining and eminently topical Clancy still reigns. "The Washington Post"
BRILLIANT. "Newsweek"
HIGHLY ENTERTAINING. "The Wall Street Journal"
[CLANCY] EXCITES, ILLUMINATES A REAL PAGE-TURNER. "Los Angeles Daily News""

Praise for the bestselling novels of Tom Clancy

"HEART-STOPPING ACTION...entertaining and eminently topical...Clancy still reigns."--The Washington Post

"BRILLIANT."--Newsweek

"HIGHLY ENTERTAINING."--The Wall Street Journal

"[CLANCY] EXCITES, ILLUMINATES...A REAL PAGE-TURNER."--Los Angeles Daily News

From the Back Cover:

Campus operative Jack Ryan Jr is in Tehran, when he meets an old friend, Seth.

As they part, Seth passes Jack a key, gives him a cryptic message - and vanishes.

Now MI6 and the CIA are after Jack. They're desperate to find Seth. Jack tells them he knows nothing - but perhaps he knows enough to find his friend on his own . . .

In a dangerous foreign country, chased by agents from all sides, unsure who - if anyone - he can trust, Jack has few clues and no space for mistakes.

He's risking everything for Seth. But whose side is his old friend on?

And what if it's not Jack's?

Praise for Tom Clancy

'A virtuoso display of page-turning talent' Sunday Express

'A brilliantly constructed thriller that packs a punch like Semtex' Daily Mail

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 140592215X
• ISBN 13: 9781405922159
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528