Tom Clancy's Full Force and Effect
INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN
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4.3 • 143 Ratings
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Publisher Description
INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN . . .
When a rogue state tries to go nuclear, only two men can stop it . . .
Jack Ryan Jr is in Ho Chi Minh City tailing an ex-CIA operative with valuable documents when a hit leaves Jack with a corpse, no documents and only a bloodily scribbled note as a clue to what just happened.
It sends him on the trail of a shadowy security firm with links to North Korea, newly resurgent under its young, power-hungry dictator. For the rogue state has found a way to finally make its nuclear ambitions a reality - no matter the cost to the world.
This is something President Jack Ryan will not permit - but North Korea and its backers have plans for US leader which will silence him for good.
On the ground and on the global stage, Jack Ryans Jr and Sr race against time to halt a madman from acquiring the world's deadliest weapon . . .
The newest JACK RYAN thriller from Tom Clancy, following on from Command Authority, sees the return of the best loved series character from the world's favourite international thriller writer.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Greaney's meticulously researched and exciting second contribution to the Jack Ryan franchise (after Tom Clancy Support and Defend), Ryan, now the U.S. president with two more years to go in his second term, learns that Choi Ji-hoon, North Korea's supreme leader, has embarked on a program of using his immensely valuable deposits of rare earth minerals to fund the development of a nuclear-tipped ICBM capable of reaching the continental U.S. The job of investigating and stopping this effort falls to the secret organization known as "The Campus," one of whose chief agents is the president's son, Jack Ryan Jr. The action shifts smoothly among the various plot lines, including the North Korean missile program headed by Lt. Gen. Ri Tae-jin, the rare earth mining effort under the directorship of Hwang Min Ho, and the take-down of Sharps Global Intelligence Partners, a U.S. security firm working for the North Koreans. The sympathetic portrayal of many of the characters opposed to America adds depth.
Customer Reviews
Andy
I do like reading a Tom Clancy novel, especially when on my hols and sat at the side of the pool. This novel maintains the genre nicely - you know exactly what you are going to get. The characters, plot and action always seem current, and the book treads a nice line between making you think and keeping you entertained.
Recommended.
Couldn't read this book fast enough!
But it's a dismal, dismal attempt at a book. In the end I just wanted to get it over with as a read. Incredibly cliched and predictable plot.
Over half the characters were already presented in countless earlier tomes, yet this writer still felt the need to mention name, surname, rank, job, place of birth etc etc etc EVERY d*mn time they appear - as though his expected readership would be simply too thick to remember them. Just another way to fill pages, like the two page chapters and blank half pages everywhere.
Poor Tom Clancy must be spinning in his grave if this is the standard of writer authorised to ghost-write in his name.
Appalling grammar (so bad I wondered if the author had ever gone to an actual school), rubbish spelling, badly made-up words, a patronising writing tone and just very poor value for money overall. Extremely disappointing and will put me off ever buying this writers work again. And most likely, anything that Clancys name is attached to since he is no longer around to vet quality, and all his family/publishing house will be interested in is keeping that gravy train rolling along as opposed to producing quality writing.