Thankyou.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. TO PUBLISHER: PLEASE CHECK THE FILE BEFORE GIVING THE DMCA NOTICE. You don’t have to have read any of Clancy’s or Jack Ryan’s novels to enjoy this page turn. I’m a fan of Cameron’s Arliss Cutter series (if you haven’t already, you should). Not a big deal, especially considering the scope of the novel. A little quirk: The child taken out of the car refers to a boy and a girl alternately. These are wonderfully drawn characters (don’t take your eyes off Elke or poor Ruby). This is less techy than Clancy used to be (there’s some techy stuff on the plane, but that’s beside the point), but it’s also more propulsive. This jumps between continents but eventually comes together. The FBI team in the Nevada desert has it in their hands. He’s just part of this team, led largely by Mary Pat, C/O of the CIA, and overseen by the mysterious John Clark. In this sort of prequel to many others in the series, Jack is 34 and was pulled from his job in London to travel to Germany to meet the possible defector. That’s great! Know in advance that as he opens (and closes) the book, Jack is part of an incredible group of good and bad guys hunting a mysterious East German who stole part of an experimental plane that crashed in the Nevada desert AND who they are trying to meet with a possible defector from the GDR. Can he find the answers before the Cold War turns into the Red Winter? Ryan is a former Marine and brilliant CIA analyst who has led some of the CIA’s biggest heists, but this time he finds himself in enemy territory with a professional assassin hot on his heels. It’s a job Deputy Principal James Greer can only entrust to one man: Jack Ryan.

As the East German secret police close in, someone needs to go behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the possible defector. T’s an offer they can’t refuse…if it’s real, but the stakes are too high to stumble into a deal blindly. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer: priceless details about his government’s spy plans in exchange for asylum. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world, and the Soviets will do anything to get their secrets.

A top secret F117 plane crashes in the Nevada desert.

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