Mike Maden takes over the reins of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Jr. series with Point of Contact, which features plenty of page-turning propulsion and the high-stakes excitement fans expect. Perfect for the armchair action-junkies who like their books blockbuster-movie paced and their characters uncomplicated. When former US Senator Weston Rhodes approaches financial analyst firm Hendley Associates … Continue reading Review: Tom Clancy’s Point of Impact by Mike Maden
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Review: Tom Clancy’s Truth Faith and Allegiance by Mark Greaney
Above all else, Tom Clancy's novels garnered mass readership because his plots were either ripped from the headlines, or prognostications of headlines-to-come. Since taking up the mantle of penning the continuing adventures of characters based in the Jack Ryan universe, Grant Blackwood and Mark Greaney have maintained the author's legacy. Their Jack Ryan novels, like the … Continue reading Review: Tom Clancy’s Truth Faith and Allegiance by Mark Greaney
Review: Tom Clancy’s Full Force & Effect by Mark Greaney
Mark Greaney’s first solo outing as the steward of Tom Clancy’s long-running Jack Ryan series, Full Force and Effect, offers a deftly fictionalized reproduction of contemporary real-world geopolitics. Under the leadership of Choi Ji-Hoon – the embodiment of Kim Jong-Un – North Korea has plans to extract a rich deposit of rare minerals, thereby granting … Continue reading Review: Tom Clancy’s Full Force & Effect by Mark Greaney
Review: Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Out of the Ashes by Dick Couch & George Galdorisi
Like a phoenix from the flames, Tom Clancy’s Op-Center returns … only to immediately crash back down to earth. OUT OF THE ASHES is an archaic military thriller, more interested in bombarding readers with acronyms and jargons than telling a compelling story. However long Op-Center’s revival lasts, I won’t be around to see it. The … Continue reading Review: Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Out of the Ashes by Dick Couch & George Galdorisi
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