Tom Clancy Point of contact

Format:

Audio disc

Title:

Tom Clancy Point of contact

Other title(s):

Point of contact

Author:

Maden, Mike author

ISBN:

9781524780463

9781524780449

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication:

New York : Random House Audio ; [Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape, [2017]

Physical Description:

11 audio discs (13 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Series title(s):

Jack Ryan Jr. novel.

Number in series:

BK 10.

General Note:

Title from container.

Compact disc.

Summary:

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy created a world of indelible characters who live on this electrifying thriller. Jack Ryan Jr. is going out on an ordinary audit. Hendley and Associates, the investment firm that acts as cover for the Campus is looking to invest in a German company. Along for the ride is David Kraft a back office employee who will help run numbers, but is mostly useful to help carry Jack's bags. But all isn't what it seems. Kraft has a secret past. One that may be very much closer to the surface than it first appears, and one that has put both men in terrible danger.

Personal Subject:

Ryan, Jack, Jr. (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Ryan, Jack, Jr. (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst01895258

Subject(s):

Intelligence officers -- United States -- Fiction.

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Library	Call Number	Status
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Jack Ryan, Jr., learns that sometimes the deadliest secret may be standing right next to you in this electrifying adventure in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series .

Former U.S. Senator Weston Rhodes is a defense contractor with an urgent problem. His company needs someone to look over the books of Dalfan Technologies, a Singapore company--quickly. He turns to his old friend Gerry Hendley for help. Hendley Associates is one of the best financial analysis firms in the country and the cover for The Campus, a top-secret American intelligence agency. Rhodes asks for two specific analysts, Jack Ryan, Jr., and Paul Brown, a mild-mannered forensic accountant.

Both Ryan and Brown initially resist, for different reasons. On the long flight over, Ryan worries he's being sidelined from the next Campus operation in America's war on terror. Brown--who was never very good with people--only worries about the numbers, and finding a good cup of tea.

Brown has no idea Jack works for The Campus but the awkward accountant is hiding secrets of his own. Rhodes has tasked him 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 murderous storm and a team of trained assassins in order to prevent a global catastrophe, even at the cost of their own lives.

Author Notes

Mike Maden is an American author. He grew up in California's San Joaquin Valley. He has a Ph.D. in political science focused on conflict and technology in international relations. He has had a lifelong interest in history and warfare. Tom Clancy became one of his favorite authors after reading The Hunt for Red October. He writes in the same techno-thriller genre. His earlier books include Drone, Blue Warrior, Drone Command, Drone Threat. He writes for the Tom Clancy's jack Ryan, Jr., series. Tom Clancy's Point of Contact was published in June 2017. Tom Clancy's Line of Sight was published in June 2018.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Maden (Drone Threat and three other Troy Pierce technothrillers) bases this taut, exciting thriller-an entry in the Jack Ryan Jr. division of the Tom Clancy universe-on the seemingly mundane premise of a corporate audit. Jack Ryan Jr., partnered with forensic accountant Paul Brown, is working for Hendley Associates, a top financial analysis firm, on a study of Dalfan Technologies, a Singaporean company that former U.S. senator Weston Rhodes intends to acquire. Rhodes has a clandestine secondary mission for Paul: installing a CIA diagnostic program to sniff Dalfan's files for potential cyber-espionage. Tight security delays Paul's infiltration, and as the deadline nears and Rhodes becomes more agitated, Paul suspects his mission is far more sinister. The not-merely-accountants must outrace international assassins and a massive typhoon to thwart a global financial disaster. Clancy fans can rest assured that the state of the franchise is strong. Agent: David Hale Smith, Inkwell Management. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Kirkus Review

Scion of Clancy's family of all-American heroes, Jack Ryan Jr. usually goes armed as a special-ops warrior for The Campus, but this time he's equipped with a Zebra F-701 pen as Maden (Drone Threat, 2016, etc.) offers his first entry in the late master's oeuvre (Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance, 2016, etc.).The Campus is a supersecret unit of Hendley Associates, a private equity management company. Former U.S. Sen. Weston Rhodes has approached Hendley for help. The ex-public servant now fronts for defense contractor Marin Aerospace Systems, which wants to buy Singapore's Dalfan Technologies, making an audit necessary. Rhodes requests Hendley's ace fraud accountant, Paul Brown, and Jack Jr., trained as a financial analyst, to do the work. There's a hidden agenda, of course, linked to Rhodes' and Brown's long-ago CIA service. Behind that curtain lurks North Korea, a Bulgarian assassin, and a disloyal son. There's the lowdown on Singapore, good, bad, and monsoon season, plus a three-way fight among Dalfan's owners, the superwealthy and secretive Eurasian family Fairchild. As revealed in back-story anecdotes, Brown, who looks like a schlub, has more hidden assets than Dalfan, whose finances are suspiciously clean. In this turbocharged narrative, technologysupercomputers, smartphones, OnStar, and Google mapsgives the bad guys the plausible ability to wage economic warfare from Shanghai to the United States. On the Brave New World front, Dalfan's ready to launch Steady Stare, a solar-powered drone. Steady Stare would make the National Security Agency drool. It can see every movement of every person plus "time travel" into the past. But isn't that nothing more than the unlimited ability to rewind? With typhoons; deadly Chinese and North Korean operatives wielding bats, knives, and guns; and a weaponized thumb drive, the action reaches Clancy levels early and stays there. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Booklist Review

This is Maden's first entry in the Jack Ryan, Jr., series the ongoing spin-off from Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels and he does a credible job. A former American senator who's now a major defense contractor enlists a forensic accountant at Hendley Associates to go to Singapore and check out a local technology company; he also asks the accountant to do something else, something that comes with serious risks and major international implications. Along for the ride is Jack Ryan, Jr., an operative for the Campus, the top-secret intelligence group that gets its funding from Hendley. Jack and the accountant are soon on the run from a group of killers, trying to save their own lives while putting a stop to an evil plot designed to wreak international havoc. Maden does a good job with his two main characters (the accountant proves surprisingly multilayered), but he's less sure-footed with the supporting cast, many of whom feel more like placeholders than actual people, and, unfortunately, the identity of the main villain is telegraphed well before the Big Reveal. But the late Clancy's own novels suffered from the same flaws an overreliance on plot and tech at the expense of character and dialogue so you could say that Maden is simply carrying on the tradition. Overall the book's a solid actioner that fits in nicely with the previous entries in the series.--Pitt, David Copyright 2017 Booklist