Patriot games

by Clancy, Tom, 1947-2013,

Format: Print Book 2013
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Summary
Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski!

Tom Clancy reveals Jack Ryan's origins in this electrifying #1 New York Times bestselling thriller that pits the former Marine turned family man against a vicious group of international terrorists.

As an American in London on vacation with his family, Jack Ryan never imagined his quick thinking would prevent an assassination attempt on Britain's royal family and earn him the gratitude of an entire nation--and the scorn of an ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA. Irish terrorist Sean Miller and his followers in the Ulster Liberation Army intend to make sure Ryan pays for his interference in blood. But he's not the only one they're after...

With the lives of his pregnant wife and young daughter in mortal danger, Ryan accepts a role as a CIA analyst in order to find Miller and shut down the ULA. Going head to head with a ruthless terrorist is a fool's errand, but Jack Ryan is the kind of man who will do whatever it takes to protect his family.
Published Reviews
Publisher's Weekly Review: "Introduced in The Hunt for Red October, Jack Ryan, the naval historian who freelances for the CIA, returns in this novel, in which Clancy demonstrates once again that he is a master of a genre he seems to have createdthe technico-military thriller. On a visit with his wife and daughter in London, Ryan stumbles onto an attempt by a new Irish revolutionary group to kidnap the Prince and Princess of Wales and their eldest son. Using his Marine Corps training, Ryan saves the royals (which leads to several visits between the Ryans and the residents of Buckingham Palace), but Ryan becomes the target of the surviving terrorists. Many familiar elements of the Clancy style are evident here: a fascination with machines and systems and procedures; thin characters; idealization of the soldier's life (``the discipline and the essential toughness that makes them different''); sarcastic humor; and a discordant sentimentality about family life. There are also some unintended ironies, particularly Clancy's praise of the CIA and the Marines, considering recent news from Washington and Moscow. Nonetheless, Clancy spins a marvelously tense yarn that will appeal to his legion of fans. First serial rights to Penthouse; Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Military Book Club, Reader's Digest Condensed Books selections. (August 7) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information
Series A Jack Ryan novel
Features Jack Ryan, Sr., a CIA Deputy Director of Central Intelligence who eventually serves two terms as President of the United States
#1 - The Hunt for Red October
#2 - Patriot games
#3 - The Cardinal of the Kremlin
#4 - Clear and present danger
#5 - The Sum of all fears
#6 - Debt of honor
#7 - Executive orders
#8 - Red rabbit
#9 - Command authority
#10 - Full force and effect
#11 - Commander in chief
#12 - True faith and allegiance
#13 - Power and empire
#14 - Oath of office
#15 - Code of honor
#16 - Shadow of the dragon
#17 - Chain of command
#18 - Red winter
Subjects Ryan, Jack, -- Sr. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Intelligence service -- Fiction.
Terrorism -- Fiction.
Political fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Spy fiction.
Publisher New York :Berkley,2013
Edition Berkley premium edition.
Language English
Description 787 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN 9780425269404
042526940X
9780833516435
0833516434
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