A tip top yarn to prove that Marc Cameron has really filled the boots of Tom Clancy and his President Jack Ryan cast of characters.
I seriously feared for the floundering of this series through a lack of maintenance by some of the understudy writers who have tried to continue the Clancy legacy. But no longer; with Cameron at the helm, there are a few voyages of note still on the cards, I believe.
Typically, the US President, Jack Ryan likes to handle things himself, but he is not at all happy when his First Lady, Dr. Cathy Ryan, as a world-class ophthalmologist, involves herself in an operation on a Chinese General’s daughter. But the appreciation of General Song might just swing the odds in favour of her husband’s efforts to save his old friend, Father Pat West who has been sentenced to death in Indonesia for alleged drug smuggling.
With the team known as the Campus under veteran John Clark in full operational mode, the President sends them to not only save Father Pat, but to thwart a serious threat to the free world of a computer gaming program that has AI ability to transfer itself from one device to another without leaving a trace. Capable of getting itself into a warhead and redirecting it could be terrifyingly useful…
Marc Cameron – author
Jack Ryan Junior plays no special part in this tale except as a worthwhile member of the Campus team, so hopefully the damage done by some of his previous lacklustre adventures will be forgotten…
ISBN 9780241410714.
Thank you to Penguin Random House, SA for this ARC;
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