Tom Clancy's Line of Sight
THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN
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3.8 • 70 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A stunning thriller in the internationally bestselling series that inspired the smash-hit Amazon Prime TV Show JACK RYAN
Jack Ryan Jr is in an assassin's sights . . .
Sent to the Balkans on an analytical mission, Jack Ryan Jr visits Sarajevo to meet Aida, the girl his mother saved in the war. He finds a selfless, attractive woman helping refugees in a restless country where a new war is brewing.
Coming to her aid, Jack is soon tangling with the Serbian mafia while dodging assassins from the mysterious Iron Syndicate. Alone and defying recall orders, he believes this is more than just local trouble.
Has someone lit the fuse on the next world war?
Is Jack endangering Aida trying to find out?
And what can he alone do to stop it?
Praise for Tom Clancy:
'He constantly taps the current world situation for its imminent dangers and spins them into an engrossing tale' New York Times
'Heart-stopping action . . . entertaining and eminently topical' Washington Post
'Exhilarating. No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict' Sunday Times
'A brilliantly constructed thriller that packs a punch' Daily Mail
'A virtuoso display of page-turning talent' Sunday Express
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in the shattered remains of the former Yugoslavia, Maden's second Jack Ryan Jr. novel in the Clancy franchise (after 2017's Point of Contact) struggles to give a coherent picture of the politics of that troubled region. Characters repeatedly fall back on some variation of the phrase "It's confusing," and it's doubtful that even Clancy himself could have explained it any better than Maden. Jack Ryan Sr. is now the U.S. president, and son Jack Jr. has taken over series hero duties as an employee of his dad's old secret organization, the Campus. Sent to Bosnia on a job for a cover organization affiliated with the Campus, Jack Jr. agrees to try to find Bosnian Muslim Aida Curic at the request of his physician mother. In 1992, 25 years earlier, his mother saved the life of then three-year-old Aida. While searching for Aida in Sarajevo, Jack runs across the Iron Syndicate, a nefarious secret agency whose various political factions are conspiring to use a false flag operation to trick the world powers into starting WWIII. Only a nostalgic love of these aging characters will induce readers to plow through the formulaic plot to the unsurprising ending.
Customer Reviews
A waste of money and a poor book
Poorly written novel as if written by an amateur dramatist. Not a patch on the original author.
Over emphasis in details and straining to live up to the original’s reputation
Reasonable story ruined by politics
Whilst the core storyline is as you’d expect, the addition of unnecessary dialogue and scenes take this from an escapist fantasy to an incoherent ramble on the dangers of any political viewpoint that isn’t aligned with the authors right wing view of the world. It’s a shame really, at least Tom Clancy balanced his views with facts and a recognition that things aren’t always what they seem. A sad end to the series for me, I won’t be reading another.
Disappointed
Sadly this was the worst book in the Jack Ryan series. It appears to have been rushed.