Jack Ryan, Jr.'s race to stop an international criminal conspiracy is intertwined with the fate of an old friend in this blistering entry in the number-one New York Times best-selling series.

The CIA's deepest secrets are being given away for a larger agenda that will undermine the entire Western intelligence community. Director of National Intelligence Mary Pat Foley wants it stopped but doesn't know who, how, or why.

Jack Ryan, Jr., is dispatched to Poland on a different mission. The clues are thin, and the sketchy trail dead ends in a harrowing fight from which he barely escapes with his life. If that's not bad enough, Jack gets more tragic news. An old friend, who's dying from cancer, has one final request for Jack. It seems simple enough, but before it's done, Jack will find himself alone, his life hanging by a thread.

If he survives, he'll be one step closer to finding the shadowy figure behind the CIA leak and its true purpose, but in the process, he'll challenge the world's most dangerous criminal syndicate with devastating consequences.

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Audible.com Release Date	June 11, 2019
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William

Just Bad

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2019

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As someone who has read all of the books in the series it has really reached a new low. Whoever owns the rights to the Clancy name should be ashamed they have let such a great series descend to this drivel. It really isn't even a spy novel novel anymore.

This is yet another book in which Jack Ryan Jr. falls for an attractive girl pretty much as soon as they meet and spends half is time thinking about how great it would be to sleep with her but that he shouldn't. Yet again Jack Ryan Jr. is driven around by said girl and taught a history lesson that he failed to learn in college as a history major, a major which the author feels the need to constantly remind of us. Even though many of the historical events mentioned are not all that obscure he knows none of them.

Jack Ryan is supposed to be a spy and yet the only spy like thing he manages to do is plant a few listening devices. He constantly walks into dangerous situations unprepared and takes the most direct method of trying to learn something. No surveillance of targets is attempted before making an approach. He goes around with no cover identity even though he is the son of the President and yet nobody seems to be able to connect the dots or even mention how funny it is he has the same name as the President. He seems more interested in food and women then in actually spying.

The other members of the campus make very few appearances in the book with no real reason given at all. It seemed just like laziness by the author not wanting to have to deal with more then one character. There were plenty of places where Gavin could've been used to help but he was just "busy".

Now onto the plot. For the first three quarters of the book its a bunch separate plots with no interaction between them. The main plot line (Jack Ryan Jrs.) is just poor. Based on just a bad feeling they start looking at a Senator and her rich husband. Jack then proceeds to just randomly probe around at their business dealings in Poland looking for something wrong. He does so poorly with no real plan at all. The last quarter of the book is spent tying all these random seeming plot lines together in a way which seems so random and forced that it just doesn't work at all. Its not a mystery that gets solved its just a bunch of random things that just come together. Nobody solves anything they just kind of stumble into the end that really didn't have anything to do with the story. Ryan's whole story line is basically pointless to the conclusion of the story and only tangentially connected.

The campus at one point in the book finds out someone is up to something fishy and instead of gathering intelligence or evidence of wrongdoing they just confront the person responsible. It just makes no sense and is just lazy.

My final gripe about the book is the bad guys are just stupid/unrealistic. They know Ryan is looking at then trying to find something they are doing wrong. Do they try to hid what they are doing? No they choose to confront Ryan when he knows nothing and they clearly could've just added a little more security and he never would've learned a thing anyway.

At present I don't think I will be reading the next book in the series which just really makes me sad.

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Doyle W. Sinclair

Worst 'Tom Clancy' book ever - This series has become too formulaic

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2019

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I have read every Tom Clancy book that has been published and this one is by far the worst of the bunch. In a word, BORING. The last 3 T C books have had the EXACT same formula. Jack Jr is sent somewhere overseas just as he is about to enjoy a vacation with the woman he met in the previous book. . . and suddenly he is called in to work and told to change his plans and go to __________ (fill in the blank destination).

Once there, he meets another beautiful woman and begins thinking of her in a romantic way while she helps him on his mission. . . his mission gets her hurt or her family gets hurt and he spends a LOT of time wallowing in misery and self-doubt and self-blame.

He eventually completes the mission. . lah-dah-dah-dah-dah.

In addition to following this new formula, and I do mean a formula. . . .(in fact, I was wondering if he has a template that is being followed page-by-page that tells him (insert character #2 name here, and insert location #3 here) because the new formula seems SO rigidly followed that I found myself saying, it seems like it's just about time for John Clark to show up and save the day. . . or, it seems like it's about time for Jack Jr to get beat up in an alley again, or, it seems like its about time for a US politician who is now corrupt to send some goons after Jack Jr. .. OR, the newest trope in the series. . .it seems as if its time for the IT superman Gavin, to make an appearance.

Finally, there was very little spycraft, and the action scenes were few and not very good, and WAY too much Polish history thrown in for good measure under the heading of research. Too many FOOD scenes, and the whole thing was just boring, boring, boring.

Although I have read EVERY Clancy novel. . .I am now done with them. I will not waste my money and time on them any longer. I'll just wait for the next Jack Reacher.

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Traveller

Just a bad read

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2019

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Simply a horribly boring read. Rambling, disparate plots that lack any action. I have read every book the series, doubt I read another.

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Neil W Buckingham

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 1, 2019

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I have read all of the Jack Ryan books and, up to this one, have been impressed by the ability of the author to tell a story nearly as well as Tom Clancy. This one however is different. Grealish seems to think we are interested in the smallest detail, even if it adds nothing to the plot. For instance, I don't care what make of back-pack Ryan has packed his things into, and I am not interested in the serial number of the US Navy ship that arrives to rescue him. Additionally I am not interested in the name of the designer of the clothes that people are wearing. At one point I thought there was product placement for money going on. The plot was thin and the whole book could have been 100 pages less if the author had just stuck to writing an action book (which is what we all read Ryan books for) rather than using pages advertising stuff. I will try one more of these but, if there is no improvement then I'm afraid Jack Ryan and me will be going our separate ways. Three stars was generous as I contemplated giving it two.

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Chris Bushell

Latest Jack Ryan Jr book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2019

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I have to say that I ended up rather disappointment with this book. It comes across as being written to a formula, is somewhat predictable and some of the sections are quite unbelievable. In now way are this and other recent books in the series up to the standard that Tom Clancey set for his original series of books and one gets the feeling that they are just turning out a couple of books per year to try and keep the franchise making money!

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J Sharples

Definitely not Tom Clancy!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2020

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The great thing about the real Tom Clancy's novels was that you became totally immersed in the World of the characters. The storylines sucked you in, and galloped along so fast that you tended to be sucked easily into the right wing politics of Ryan and his pals, and if you did start to have pangs of concience at the illegal activities they engaged in then the overwhelming volume of fascinating technical info, and the villainous activities of the bad guys soon distracted you.

Unfortunately, that skill has been lost. I stuck with this tale as the storyline was interesting, but the ridiculous anti EU, pro- USA right wing Republican propaganda kept hitting you like a wet fish to the face. And then the apologist explanations for the support of Poland and it's discriminatory policies were pathetic, and not even accurate. Don't worry though you get a great step by step culinary guide as what delicacies to select if you a dining out in Krakow.

Using Tom Clancy's name and reputation in this way is both annoying and demeaning to his memory.

ian jones

Weak story and unnecessary right wing politics

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 27, 2019

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I used to like Tom Clancy novels but had to hold my nose somewhat with the jingoistic and right wing nonsense in it (I seem to recall Rowe vs Wade being discussed by Jack Ryan Snr in one novel which was completely tangential to the actual story itself). I had hoped that we might just get back to basics with the novels since he passed but this last one is just a step too far. We've got issues like Solar Power (bad and completely uneconomic), Oil / Fossil fuels (good and cheap) coming up for no apparent reason etc. It would be better if the time and effort were spent by the author making the characters a bit more life-like rather than the stereotypical Elon Musk cut out used in this effort. At least TC took the effort to build up some of the main protagonists rather than lazily rely on tired stereotypes - sure people were ultimately either just 'good guys' or 'bad guys' but at least you felt you understood them a bit more.

Xyz100

a poor imitation of original Tom Clancy.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2019

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I'm afraid that, for a fan of Tom Clancy, this book was a considerable disappointment. it concerned yet another tale of an imaginary US Presidential private army– which has become even more self-righteous and jingoistic. It might have improved if I had read it to the end, but I'm afraid I found it too wordy– irritating - and almost instantly boring. Consequently I returned it to Amazon.

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