Tom Clancy's great hero, Jack Ryan Jr, returns in Threat Vector: an explosive tale of global superpowers doing battle.
Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Quiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion of Taiwan.
The Ryan administration is determined to thwart these Chinese ambitions, but the stakes are dangerously high as hundreds of Chinese anti-ship missiles thwart the US Navy's plans to protect the island. Meanwhile, Chinese cyber warfare experts have launched a devastating attack on American infrastructure.
Jack Ryan Jr and his colleagues at the Campus may be just the wild card that his father needs to stack the deck. There's just one problem: someone knows about the off-the-books intelligence agency and may be ready to blow their cover sky high.
Threat Vector follows the gripping novels Locked On and Dead or Alive as the fourth title in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Jr Series.
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Thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Years before, he had been an English major at Baltimore's Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel. His first effort, The Hunt for Red October, sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted on to the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it 'the perfect yarn'. From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He passed away in October 2013.
Mark Greaney has a degree in international relations and political science and is pursuing his master's in intelligence studies with a concentration in criminal intelligence. He is the author of The Gray Man, On Target, and Ballistic.
De nuevo, God Bless America en formato Jack Ryan. No sé qué porcentaje de la novela ha escrito Clancy, pero la revisión de estilo es suya. Aunque en esta novela, la última por ahora de la saga de los Ryan, había tanto que morder que a los autores no les ha quedado más remedio que pasar de puntillas por grandes zonas del argumento. China quiere ampliar sus aguas territoriales comiéndose las de India, Vietnam y Filipinas, y al mismo tiempo lanza un ciberataque contra los EE.UU. para que no osen meter las narices en el asunto. El Campus de Jack Ryan Junior está por supuesto involucrado en el asunto y correrán más y más aventuras intentando salvar el mundo (el mundo es isomorfo a los USA para Clancy). Aparte de clarísimas apologías del asesinato de Estado, que Clancy disemina sin rubor, el libro está muy entretenido. Un thriller geopolítico de esos, bien llevado, concluido a duras penas, ya que si desarrollasen todos los temas en igual detalle que la primera mitad del libro nos iríamos a las 1.400 páginas. Lo que no me parecería mal, oiga.
