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Jack Ryan Jr

7 books in this series
Tom Clancy's Duty and Honour
Tom Clancy's Duty and Honour
Jack Ryan Jr is enjoying some R&R when an attempt is made on his life. He survives, but learns that another attempt is imminent. Jack sets out to find out who wants him dead, and why.

Without the resources of The Campus - the elite agency from which he is on a leave-of-absence - but with the help of an investigative journalist, Jack embarks on his own secret campaign to uncover the truth about Rostock, a shadowy security firm based in Germany. But what can one man do against all Rostock's might?

The world is about to find out.
Tom Clancy's Under Fire
Tom Clancy's Under Fire
On a routine intelligence mission in Tehran, Jack Ryan, Jr., meets his oldest friend, Seth Gregory. As they part, Seth gives Jack a key and a perplexing message.

The next day Jack is summoned by two men who claim Seth has disappeared with funds for a vital intelligence operation. Insisting Seth has turned, they leave Jack with a warning: If you hear from Seth Gregory, call us immediately.

But they don't know Jack. He won't abandon a friend.

Jack soon finds himself lost in intrigue, lies, and betrayal where no one is who they seem to be - not even Seth
Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact
Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact
At a suspected Hezbollah hideout in Argentina, a team of elite counter-terror commandos prepare their offensive.

What they don't expect is to be brutally ambushed themselves - slaughtered with no survivors. And on screens around the world, enemies of the West are watching.

Back in Washington DC, when a crucial treaty is inexplicably blocked suspicion brews that key politicians may have been compromised. Jack Ryan Jr is dispatched to Poland to investigate the situation, before the accusations turn ugly.

Partnered with beautiful and brilliant Polish agent Liliana Pilecki in Warsaw, Jack uncovers a wider and more treacherous conspiracy than they ever imagined. But danger has already crept terrifyingly close to home...
Threat Vector
Threat Vector
Jack Ryan moves back into the Oval Office and is immediately faced with an international threat.

Chinese President Wei Zhen Lin has been forced to agree with the expansionist policies of his General, and they have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and planned an invasion of Taiwan.

The stakes are dangerously high as the Ryan administration attempts to thwart Chinese ambitions, facing missiles and cyber attack. Jack Ryan, Jr. may just be the wild card that his father needs. One problem: someone knows about the intelligence agency, and may be about to blow their cover sky high.
Locked On
Locked On
The Ryans - father and son - are fighting on two fronts . . .

When a deadly terrorist alliance creates the potential to blackmail any world power into submission, it's got to be stopped before it is too late. That's just the trigger Jack Ryan Jr needs to take his work for shadowy intelligence agency the Campus from the back room to the sharp end: black ops.

Meanwhile, his father, Jack Ryan Sr, campaigning for re-election as US President, is up against a privately funded vendetta to discredit him. Caught at the heart of conspiracy is former Navy SEAL, John Clark. And Ryan Sr soon discovers that being his friend could have deadly consequences.

With the breakneck speed and military action scenes that have made him the premier thriller writer of our time, Tom Clancy delivers a novel of high-tech warfare in which the enemy within may be even more devastating than the enemy without.
Tom Clancy's Point of Contact
Tom Clancy's Point of Contact
Freeze or drown.
He wasn't sure which one would come first. It didn't really matter. Either way, Jack Ryan, Jr. knew he was going to die in the next two minutes.

When Jack Ryan Jr is sent to Singapore on what seems a routine administrative task, he worries he's being sidelined in the war on terror. But it soon becomes clear there's more to the mission - and his unassuming new partner, Paul Brown - than meets the eye.

With North Korean missile testing in full swing and a deadly cyclone bearing down on the island nation, Brown and Ryan are tasked with uncovering a mole threatening an entirely new kind of warfare. And it soon becomes clear someone is willing to kill to cover their tracks.

As they race against time to escape both the murderous storm and a team of trained assassins, they must fight against power, prestige, leverage and blackmail to prevent the launch of another worldwide nuclear arms race.

And they might not make it out alive.
Dead or Alive
Dead or Alive
The world's number-one terrorist is about to unleash a holy war.
Only one agency, one man, can stop him . . .

The Campus was secretly created by President Jack Ryan to covertly eliminate terrorists. Now it faces its greatest threat: a sadistic killer known as the Emir. Mastermind of countless horrific attacks, the Emir has eluded capture by every law enforcement agency in the world. And he is about to unleashed a monumental strike at the heart of America.

But on the Emir's trail is intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. Following in his legendary father's footsteps, he and his allies at the Campus are on a manhunt that will take them across the globe, into the shadowy arenas of political gamesmanship, in a race to prevent the fall of the West.

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