
When Russian President Valeri Volodin's ambitions are foiled in Dagestan, he faces a difficult choice. The oligarchs who support him expect a constant flow of graft, but with energy prices cratering, the Russian economy sputters to a virtual halt. A floating natural gas facility in Lithuania is blown up. A Venezuelan prosecutor is assassinated. A devastating attack on a Russian troop train kills dozens. Only one man recognizes an ominous pattern in the reports of terror from around the globe: U.S. President Jack Ryan. But before he can act he needs proof....
Publisher:
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press Large Print, 2015.
Edition:
Large print edition.
ISBN:
9781410484727
1410484726
1410484726
Characteristics:
large print (16 point)
953 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Additional Contributors:
Alternative Title:
Commander-in-chief



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Add a CommentI would have believed that this was written by Tom Clancy
Well done Mark Greaney
The Russian President proves to be a complete pain in the neck in more ways than one in this new novel by Mark Greaney, continuing the ongoing adventures of characters created by the late Tom Clancy. With President Jack Ryan confronting a Russian crisis on more than one front, his son Jack Jr. and colleagues at the secretive campus are working on the same matter in different parts of the world, while the Putin-substitute does everything but chew scenery. The Campus characters continue to be not that terribly interesting when compared to earlier Clancy creations like Ryan Sr., John Clark, and Domingo Chavez, and the novel does suffer from some of the usual techno-jargon one would find in any Clancy novel, but Greaney at least makes the plot work. Better than some of what's come out from Team Clancy in the last few years.
The battle scenes reminded me of Red Storm Rising.
Clancy would be proud. Greaney has picked up the flag where it fell from Clancy's pen. A little different style but the content and characters are what you expect with the Clancy name.
Greaney isn't Tom Clancy, but still a good read, carrying on in the Jack Ryan universe.