Tom Clancy Red Winter
A white-knuckle prequel that introduces a never-before-seen Jack Ryan at the beginning of his career
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4.0 • 138 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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1985: For Jack Ryan, the Cold War is burning hot
A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets.
In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer: invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the potential defector. It's a job Deputy Director James Greer can only trust to one man - Jack Ryan.
Ryan is a former Marine and a brilliant CIA analyst, but this time he's in enemy territory with a professional assassin on his tail. Can he get the right answers before the Cold War turns into a Red Winter?
Twenty years after Tom Clancy's classic novel Red Rabbit, this is white-knuckle prequel introduces a never-before-seen Jack Ryan at the beginning of his career.
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Reader reviews for RED WINTER
'Gripping from start to finish. Great cast of characters and a punchy plot!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Very satisfying. Descriptions of the environments in which the story plays out, backed up by detailed and impressive research' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Fantastic storyline and great characters, full of twists that kept me up late reading' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Something different this time; good to see how it all began. Very interesting concept' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Great plot, intrigue chapter by chapter, the words come alive as the tale unfolds' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Action packed from page one' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Back to the era of spies in Berlin and cold war espionage. What's not to like about this classic spy romp?' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Customer Reviews
Whispering Jack
3.5 stars
Jack Ryan is Prez currently, if not master of the universe. I’m not sure. I haven’t kept up.
This one jumps back to 1985 when he’s mid-thirties, mega-rich, living in London with his ophthalmologist wife and two young kids, and working as an “analyst.” It’s post-Red October and the IRA bombing so he has a few runs on the board, but the spook brass still think he’s wet behind the you know whats. (I could tell you, but I’d have to shoot you.) Our boy is called to Langley for a meeting. A super-secret stealth bomber has crashed during testing in the desert near Las Vegas. The spooks reckon a Stasi dude hiding out with UFO enthusiasts got his hands on some of the secret material than makes the plane so quiet and is trying to smuggle it out of the country to aid Russian military development. Meanwhile, a newly minted female State department operative in West Berlin is mugged outside McDonald’s by a dude who ends up dead soon after thanks to the locals. When the dust settles, she finds a cryptic message from a would be defector in her bag saying he or she (no such thing as they or them in 1985) wants to deal with Langley direct, impugning the loyalty of the local US spooks. Jack is dispatched to Berlin, and an FBI dude to Arizona. Stuff happens. Yada, yada. The end.
Crisp, clean prose. Reasonable pace. I enjoyed the trip back in time. (I was in my thirties in the 1980s too. Just so we’re clear, I’m talking end of the decade.) Mucho familiar plot tropes but, hey, that’s what we pay for, right?
Clancy alive?
The best book written since Tom passed.
The real deal.
Tom Clancy Red Winter
Completely implausible. The two stories have little to do with each other. No t a good follow up on Tom Clancy’s previous novels.