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True faith and allegiance / by Mark Greaney.

Greaney, Mark, (author.). Clancy, Tom, 1947-2013 (Added Author).

Summary:

"The #1 New York Times-bestselling series is back with the most shocking revelation of all. After years of facing international threats, President Jack Ryan learns that the greatest dangers always come from within... It begins with a family dinner in Princeton, New Jersey. After months at sea, U.S. Navy Commander Scott Hagan, captain of the USS James Greer, is on leave when he is attacked by an armed man in a crowded restaurant. Hagan is shot, but he manages to fight off the attacker. Though severely wounded, the gunman reveals he is a Russian whose brother was killed when his submarine was destroyed by Commander Hagan's ship. Hagan demands to know how the would-be assassin knew his exact location, but the man dies before he says more. In the international arrivals section of Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport, a Canadian businessman puts his fingerprint on a reader while chatting pleasantly with the customs official. Seconds later he is shuffled off to interrogation. He is actually an American CIA operative who has made this trip into Iran more than a dozen times, but now the Iranians have his fingerprints and know who he is. He is now a prisoner of the Iranians. As more deadly events involving American military and intelligence personnel follow, all over the globe, it becomes clear that there has been some kind of massive information breach and that a wide array of America's most dangerous enemies have made a weapon of the stolen data. With U.S. intelligence agencies potentially compromised, it's up to John Clark and the rest of The Campus to track the leak to its source. Their investigation uncovers an unholy threat that has wormed its way into the heart of our nation. A danger that has set a clock ticking and can be stopped by only one man...President Jack Ryan"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780399176814
  • Physical Description: x, 742 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Jack Ryan novel"--Jacket cover.
Subject: Ryan, Jack, Sr. (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Ryan, Jack, Jr. (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency > Fiction.
Information warfare > Fiction.
Intelligence officers > Crimes against > Fiction.
Genre: Political fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Spy fiction.

Available copies

  • 24 of 25 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Fort Nelson Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 25 total copies.
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Fort Nelson Public Library FIC CLA (Text) 35246000892115 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

  • Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2016 December #1
    Greaney is at the helm of the action-adventure enterprise built by the military maestro from Maryland (Tom Clancy Commander In Chief, 2016, etc.), this time with a devious yet believable story about radical terrorist attacks in America.Romanian hacker Alexandru Dalcu worms into a lost U.S. Office of Personnel Management file containing American security clearance applications. Dalcu's techno-skulduggery employs open-source intel "fusing legal data with an illegal theft of data and then weaponizing the results." Wanting another price-boosting oil crisis, a rogue Saudi pays Dalcu to build dossiers on key American anti-terror fighters. The Saud then sells the info to Islamic State group honcho Abu Musa al-Matari. Abu recruits "cleanskins"—radical sympathizers unknown to security services—to strike the targets within America. The who-wants-to-kill-whom is further complicated because Dalcu and ARTD, his shady employer, had been hired for spy work by the People's Republ ic of China, and they're out for blood too. As previously, there's a difficult buy-in: the chief protagonist is Jack Ryan Jr., son of longtime Clancy hero and now U.S. President Jack Ryan. Junior works (sans Secret Service) as an Uzi-toting operative for Hendley Associates, a private CIA-type company hiring out for blacker-than-black ops. Longtime Clancy characters like the indestructible Clark, Ding, and the president's nephew, Dominic Caruso, are also Hendley agents. Newbie "Midas" Jankowski, former Delta Force op, adds one more iron-jawed one-dimensional terminator. Action around a female Army helicopter pilot/gunner in Iraq provides an additional minor thread as Hendley operatives Gulfstream from Bucharest to the Blue Ridge Mountains and the tense, fast-paced action reels out ripped-from-headlines homeland terror attacks. A generation past Red October, the America-hating bad guys have added spyware, hacking, the dark web, and Bitcoins to those ubiquitous AK-47s. Copyright Kirkus 2016 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.
  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 July #1

    Along with his own popular "Gray Man" series, Greaney wrote three No. 1 best sellers with Tom Clancy, then carried on the Clancy tradition with another top-spot best seller, Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect. In this next Clancy title, the Campus is directed to hunt down the Romanian hackers responsible for a calamitous U.S. intelligence breach, but a single error lands the precious data in the hands of the Chinese. Now the risks that President Jack Ryan must take to rectify the situation will be personal.

    [Page 55]. (c) Copyright 2016 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
  • Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2016 October #5
    Tom Clancy fans should welcome Greaney's fast-paced fourth solo Jack Ryan novel (after 2015's Commander in Chief), in which once again a small group of heroes tackles a daunting national security threat. Ryan is now president, and his son, Jack Ryan Jr., works for a covert group known as the Campus. Both are tested when an information leak leads to carefully planned hits on members of the military and the intelligence community, apparently carried out by ISIS. The proliferation and scope of the attacks somehow don't result in widespread panic. President Ryan is able to resist pressure to respond militarily, which he believes would play into the terrorists' hands. Meanwhile, Jack Jr., an analyst as well as a skilled field agent, races against time to forestall further loss of life by tracing the leak. Those who don't mind major improbabilities (America's director of national intelligence flies to Iraq to supervise an operation without notifying the president) will be more than satisfied. Author tour. Agent: Scott Miller, Trident Media Group. (Dec.) Copyright 2016 Publisher Weekly.

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