Command Authority
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4.2 • 161 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author and master of the modern day thriller returns with his All-Star team.
There’s a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Command Authority was the final spy novel Tom Clancy co-authored before his 2013 death—and we can’t imagine a more perfect send-off. This gripping thriller is set in two intertwining timelines, the early 1980s and the 2010s. In the first, a green CIA analyst named Jack Ryan gets sent to Zurich to check out the death of an agent, which appears to be the work of a slippery Russian assassin code-named Zenith. Thirty years later, now-President Jack Ryan hosts a dinner at which an old Russian friend is poisoned…and all signs point to Zenith. As the Russian military starts to roll into neighboring countries, the president’s son, Jack Ryan Jr., rushes to finish the investigation his father started decades before. Clancy and co-author Mark Greaney, creator of the tremendously fun Gray Man series, craft a tense, globe-trotting techno-thriller that’s both a throwback to Clancy’s Cold War classics and an eerily up-to-date continuation.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the entertaining final Jack Ryan novel from bestseller Clancy (1947 2013), Russian president Valeri Volodin has imperialistic ambitions similar to those of a certain real-life Russian president. Failure to annex Estonia thanks to unexpected NATO resistance only redirects Russian attention to the Crimea and other lands currently outside NATO's formal umbrella. Meanwhile, President Ryan's son, Jack Ryan Jr., investigates what appears to be an unrelated case involving Russian gangsters exploiting a corrupt system to steal a vast fortune. In fact, the opportunistic appropriation links the ambitions of a once-obscure KGB officer decades ago to the events unfolding in the Crimean region and to the early career of President Ryan himself. Although the military conflict is an important part of the plot, this is a classic spy novel. Fans of extended combat sequences should look elsewhere, as the focus is on high stakes espionage and assassinations carried out in rented rooms and dark alleys, not well-lit battlefields.
Customer Reviews
One of the best ever.
I’m his final book , Tom Clancy delivers.
Command Authority
This was not a great Tom Clancy thriller, it was predictable and frankly at times boring. I'm sorry because I have been a Clancy fan for years and this was not an interesting read. I'm going back to read a classic Clancy just to get this one out of my mind.