Tom Clancy Point of Contact

Mike Maden

Jun 2017 · A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel Book 4 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

Jack Ryan Jr. finds himself on the front lines of cyber war and in the eye of a killer storm in this thriller in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series.

A former U.S. senator and defense contractor needs someone to look over the books of Dalfan Technologies, a Singapore company--quickly. He turns to Jack Ryan, Jr., and Paul Brown, two employees of one of the best financial analysis firms in the country, which also happens to be the cover for The Campus, a top secret American intelligence agency.

Brown has no idea that Jack works for The Campus. Jack has no idea that the awkward accountant has been tasked with uploading a cyberwarfare program into the highly secure Dalfan Technologies mainframe on behalf of the CIA. On the verge of mission success, Brown discovers a game within the game, and the people who now want to kill him are as deadly as the cyclone bearing down on the island nation. Together Ryan and Brown race to escape both the dangerous storm and a team of trained assassins in order to prevent a global catastrophe, even at the cost of their own lives.

Ratings and reviews

If the writer wants to use a country other than US as the backdrop in the book; at least do a thorough research. The Singaporeans' conversations are mostly wrong, some of the food names are wrong too. Not nitpicking, but one would expect more from a worldwide bestseller series to do a better research or at least consult with real local before publishing.

Maden tried to picture the theatre environment more by putting some singlish "lah", but somehow all are out of place. Storyline is bit too boring, definitely out of Clancy's style of story, out of flow, especially doing so much on the karambit training, which are useless.

Atypical of a Campus thriller with too much drab stuff in the middle but Maden may be setting the ground for future books. Slight punctuation mistake with the usage of Singlish though..generally ok read.

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.