Threat Vector: INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN - Hardcover

Tom Clancy; Mark Greaney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718176944 ISBN 13: 9780718176945

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2012

Synopsis

Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Quiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion of Taiwan. The Ryan administration is determined to thwart China’s ambitions, but the stakes are dangerously high as a new breed of powerful Chinese anti-ship missiles endanger the US Navy's plans to protect the island. Meanwhile, Chinese cyber warfare experts have launched a devastating attack on American infrastructure. It's a new combat arena, but it’s every bit as deadly as any that has gone before. Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus may be just the wild card that his father needs to stack the deck. There's just one problem: someone knows about the off-the-books intelligence agency and threatens to blow their cover sky high.

About this title

About the Author:

Thirty years ago, Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Years before, he had been an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel. His first effort, The Hunt for Red October, sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it “the perfect yarn.” Since then Clancy has established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense.

Mark Greaney has a degree in international relations and political science and is pursuing his master’s in intelligence studies with a concentration in criminal intelligence. In his research for the Gray Man novels, he traveled to seven countries and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combat tactics. Please visit his website at www.markgreaneybooks.com.

Review:

"Hard to put down." "--Pittsburgh Post-Gazzette"
"Each plotline comes to us mainly in a series of tightly written action scenes...as visual as anything on a movie screen, with the added enticement of crisp, accurate and hard driving prose." "--Chicago Tribune"
"Clancy still reigns." --"The Washington Post"

"Pulse-pounding action grabs you from the opening page and keeps hold till the end." --"The Burlington Hawk Eye "

"The man who virtually invented this genre." --"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0718176944
• ISBN 13: 9780718176945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 720