Tom Clancy Commander in Chief

Mark Greaney

Dec 2015 · A Jack Ryan Novel Book 15 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

This electrifying thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series has President Jack Ryan and his allies facing a treacherous foe threatening to unleash chaos around the globe...

When Russian President Valeri Volodin’s ambitions are foiled in Dagestan, he faces a difficult choice. The oligarchs who support him expect a constant flow of graft, but with energy prices cratering, the Russian economy sputters to a virtual halt. Unable to grow the Russian market at home, his hold on power relies on expansion abroad—a plan that has been thwarted by the United States in the past.

But this time Volodin has determined that an indirect approach is the best. A floating natural gas facility in Lithuania is blown up. A Venezuelan prosecutor is assassinated. A devastating attack on a Russian troop train kills dozens. A chaotic world is the best camouflage for a series of seemingly unrelated attacks.

Only one man recognizes an ominous pattern in the reports of terror from around the globe. U.S. President Jack Ryan sees a guiding hand in the worldwide chaos, but before he can act he needs proof.

While his intelligence agencies race to uncover the truth behind the attacks, the President struggles to unite a fractious and distrustful coalition of Western nations against the schemes of the Russian dictator.

With five thousand Russian troops poised to invade a NATO nation, can Jack Ryan move swiftly enough to stop Volodin’s grand plan of global conflict and conquest? Or will he succeed in changing the balance of world power forever?

Ratings and reviews

Good book, thought I was reading fullon Clancy writing style in 95% of the book, but 100% of the jpr and jprjr worlds. Greaney has a slightly different nuance in his writing style style that makes it just different enough to add something good and extra to the world we have all immersed ourselves in for quite some time. Very nice job mark. It even had the same climactic and speeding fast ending we are used to. Good read and great continuation. Looking forward to what's next.

This is a great book to read. All of other Jack Ryan novels that came before this book and after Command Authority are not necessary. The only book that is required to read before this one is Command Authority because of there are references to that novel. This a great way to continue Tom Clancy's legacy with the Jack Ryan books.

So I'll be the first to say The fictional world of literature lost one of the best when Tom Clancy passed away. I have every single book to date that has ever been published of his. So I'm no stranger to these stories, yet this one went from 600 mph to a dead stop unlike most of his previous titles. Could this have been due to his sudden passing I'm unsure. Its a wonderful fly by the seat of your pants action, clandestine, espionage you'd expect from the Ryan series. But alas the end is uneventful.

About the author

A little more than 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—the first of the phenomenally successful Jack Ryan novels—sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto 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. In his research for the Gray Man novels, including Mission Critical, Agent in Place, Gunmetal Gray, Back Blast, Dead Eye, Ballistic, On Target, and The Gray Man, he traveled to more than fifteen countries and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combative tactics. He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tom Clancy Support and Defend, Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect, Tom Clancy Commander in Chief, and Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance. With Tom Clancy, he coauthored Locked On, Threat Vector, and Command Authority.