Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski!
Tom Clancy reveals the details of Jack Ryan's first days with the CIA in this #1 New York Times bestseller.
Itâ??s the early 1980sâ??and historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine Jack Ryan is now a CIA officer on loan to the British SIS. On his very first day, an extraordinary document crosses his desk. Because of government repression in Poland, the new Pope, John Paul II, has threatened to resign his papacy.
In Moscow, another man is contemplating the very same document. Yuriy Andropov, the chairman of the KGB, does not like what he reads, does not like what it means for him or for his nation. All it takes is one man to cause everything he has worked for to crumble. All it takes is one man to stop him. The Pope is very powerful, but he is also mort… (plus d'informations)
Didn't make it past pg 50 on this one. Haven't read a Clancy in over a decade and decided to re-visit a fave author from my teens. Either my memory made his works better or this one is a far cry from the old ones but sheez!!! So much explaining! And not so much in the "this is how a nuclear bomb works" way but in a "let's review this beloved cast of characters in painful, awkward detail right away rather than just letting the reader get to know them as the story progresses" kind of way. No fun.
Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski!
Tom Clancy reveals the details of Jack Ryan's first days with the CIA in this #1 New York Times bestseller.
Itâ??s the early 1980sâ??and historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine Jack Ryan is now a CIA officer on loan to the British SIS. On his very first day, an extraordinary document crosses his desk. Because of government repression in Poland, the new Pope, John Paul II, has threatened to resign his papacy.
In Moscow, another man is contemplating the very same document. Yuriy Andropov, the chairman of the KGB, does not like what he reads, does not like what it means for him or for his nation. All it takes is one man to cause everything he has worked for to crumble. All it takes is one man to stop him. The Pope is very powerful, but he is also mort
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