Tom Clancy Enemy Contact

Mike Maden

Jun 2019 · A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel Book 6 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

Jack Ryan, Jr.’s race to stop an international criminal conspiracy is intertwined with the fate of an old friend in this blistering entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

The CIA's deepest secrets are being given away for a larger agenda that will undermine the entire Western intelligence community. Director of National Intelligence Mary Pat Foley wants it stopped but doesn't know who, how or why.

Jack Ryan, Jr., is dispatched to Poland on a different mission. The clues are thin, and the sketchy trail dead ends in a harrowing fight from which he barely escapes with his life.

If that's not bad enough, Jack gets more tragic news. An old friend, who's dying from cancer, has one final request for Jack. It seems simple enough, but before it's done, Jack will find himself alone, his life hanging by a thread. If he survives, he'll be one step closer to finding the shadowy figure behind the CIA leak and its true purpose, but in the process, he'll challenge the world's most dangerous criminal syndicate with devastating consequences.

Ratings and reviews

It gets two stars only for being the latest book in a series I've been reading for years, but it is by far the worst I've read. The normal hero has been hastily recast as impulsive and reckless, and the attempt at justifying the evolution is thin at best. The series is worse off for the effort, and I'm afraid another such book will wreck it completely. Very disappointed.

Awful. The book starts off in the right direction and the story develops at a reasonable pace and has elements of complexity that lead you think it's going to have one hell of a finish...... Until you realize that there are less than 50 pages left and far too much to tie together for anything substantial to happen. It is as though, literally, the final pages of the book were written by someone else with little understanding of what had happened previously. It is hands down the weakest example of writing I have ever seen in this series. Fragmentation runs rampant and the Protagonist really comes of as a bit of loser. This due to too many story lines trying to, unsuccessfully, be tied together. I legit feel ripped off.

I can understand it's hard to come up with something different all the time, but this book just struck me as a rehash of other books. Maybe it's just me and I have burned out on Jack Ryan books.

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.

Mike Maden is the author of the critically acclaimed Drone series. He holds both a master's and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Davis, specializing in international relations and comparative politics. He has lectured and consulted on the topics of war and the Middle East, among others. Maden has served as a political consultant and campaign manager in state and national elections, and hosted his own local weekly radio show for a year.