Tom Clancy Firing Point
In the mood for mile-a-minute suspense? Head to Barcelona with Jack Ryan Jr.
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Publisher Description
Jack Ryan, Jr. is out to avenge the murder of an old friend, but the vein of evil he's tapped into may run too deep for him to handle in the latest electric entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend at a small café. A first, Renee Moore seems surprised to see Jack, but then she just seems irritated and distracted. After making plans to meet later, Jack leaves, only to miss the opportunity to ever speak to Renee again, as the café is destroyed minutes later by a suicide bomber. A desperate Jack plunges back into the ruins to save his friend, but it's too late. As she dies in his arms, she utters one word, "Sammler."
When the police show up they are initially suspicious of Jack until they are called off by a member of the Spanish Intelligence Service. This mysterious sequence of events sends the young Campus operative on an unrelenting search to find out the reason behind Renee's death. Along the way, he discovers that his old friend had secrets of her own—and some of them may have gotten her killed.
Jack has never backed down from a challenge, but some prey may be too big for one man.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Even during a much-deserved vacation, there’s no rest for government agent Jack Ryan Jr. In this intense thriller from the Jack Ryan series, the young operative working for a secret organization is enjoying some downtime in Barcelona when he runs into an old flame named Renée. Moments after they make a dinner date, she’s killed in a devastating explosion. Suddenly, Jack is thrown into an impromptu mission to discover the ties between Renée and some bad actors intent on infiltrating a top secret American cyber-intelligence project. This full-tilt espionage thriller is full of surprises and threats that even a superhero like Jack Ryan Sr.—now president of the U.S.—would have trouble with. Author Mike Maden stays true to the spirit of Tom Clancy’s original Jack Ryan novels, peppering the thrilling tale with complex political machinations, cool tech, and occasional moments of pitch-perfect wry humor. There are many threads to follow in this muscular spy-vs.-spy tale, but if anyone can tie them all together in the end, it’s a Ryan.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Maden's unfocused fourth entry in Clancy's Jack Ryan Jr. franchise (after 2019's Enemy Contact) takes Jack to Barcelona, Spain, for some vacation after an intelligence mission in South Korea. On his last day before returning home to Virginia, Jake is having a drink in a bar when he spots Ren e Moore, a college classmate with whom he was once romantically involved. After chatting, the two agree to get together that evening. Seconds after Jake leaves the bar, the place blows up. Ren e dies, but not before uttering a mysterious word: Sammler. Jack joins Laia Brossa, a Spanish Centro Nacional de Inteligencia agent, to hunt down the organization responsible for Ren e's death. Meanwhile, someone is torpedoing container ships in the South Pacific. Large swaths of Spanish history tend to slow the narrative, and readers will struggle to engage with extremely shadowy villains with equally shadowy motives. Even after the main threads are pulled together and the evildoers unmasked, the criminal element and motive remain murky. Maden, a thriller pro, is capable of better.
Customer Reviews
Good, fast read
A page turner
Firing point
Great, as usual.
Not a worthy successor…
Probably the worst I have read in an otherwise decent series. Hopefully he won’t be writing another.