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Associated Press


Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance (A Jack Ryan Novel)
by Mark Greaney
G.P. Putnam’s Sons
3.5 stars
The latest novel featuring Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy’s hero who’s now president of the United States, delivers all the elements that fans expect from the franchise.
In Mark Greaney’s Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance, someone with inside knowledge and access to personal details of key military and government personnel has been selling that information to enemies of the United States.
In a crowded New Jersey restaurant, US Navy Commander Scott Hagen is on leave with his family when a man shows up and tries to kill him. The gunman is a Russian whose brother was on-board a submarine that Hagen destroyed when he was serving on the USS James Greer. Meanwhile, in Tehran’s airport, a Canadian businessman who has previously made a dozen visits is flagged as a CIA spy.
Tom Clancy: a true hack of our time
These are only two examples of a growing problem with a data breach of such extreme magnitude. How does this informant have such top-secret details? Is everyone who works for the government or military now a target?
While President Ryan contemplates what to do, his son Jack Ryan Jnr is undergoing training to join an elite special-ops group known as The Campus. The organisation is recruiting a few others as well, and their expertise will be needed when a terrorist begins striking at individuals inside the US. Has this enemy been given classified materials to strike at the heart of America? President Ryan will need to put his personal feelings aside to save the nation from a ruthless adversary.
Tom Clancy died in 2013. His novels were blockbusters that focused primarily on technology while the people involved were secondary. Action-thriller author Greaney, who has continued the series, handles the tech side with grace and has fleshed out the cast and given them depth.


Book review: True Faith and Allegiance – Mark Greaney takes on Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan legacy, and makes his mark

Tom Clancy’s mantle has been taken up by novelist Mark Greaney.

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Action-thriller author Mark Greaney takes up where Tom Clancy left off, fleshing out the cast and giving them depth


Book review: True Faith and Allegiance – Mark Greaney takes on Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan legacy, and makes his mark

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Action-thriller author Mark Greaney takes up where Tom Clancy left off, fleshing out the cast and giving them depth

Action-thriller author Mark Greaney takes up where Tom Clancy left off, fleshing out the cast and giving them depth