Marine officer. CIA analyst. President. Jack Ryan has devoted his life to protecting the United States. What if this time, he can't? President Ryan and the Campus return in the latest entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times-bestselling series.Freedom may have finally arrived in Iran. As protests break out across the country, the media rejoices over the so-called Persian Spring. Western leaders are ecstatic. Members of Congress and the Cabinet clamor to back the rebels. Only President Jack Ryan remains wary.Meanwhile, he has plenty to handle at home. A deadly strain of flu is ravaging the United States as spring floods decimate the Southeast. An unethical senator wants to bring down the Ryan presidency and is willing to lean on fabricated bot-planted stories to do it.But the scariest story is the most closely guarded one. Two Russian nuclear missiles have been hijacked. The Campus gets their first break when Jack Junior connects with a rogue Russian intelligence officer in Afghanistan — only to be abducted soon after arriving. John Clark and the rest of the Campus team race to track the missiles and rescue their colleague.As sensationalized stories spin out of control and the stolen missiles remain out of reach, President Ryan's toughest challenge emerges: How do you meet an enemy head on, when he won't even show you his face?
with General Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.), and Tony Koltz
with General Chuck Horner (Ret.) and Tony Koltz
with General Carl Stiner (Ret.) and Tony Koltz
with General Tony Zinni (Ret.) and Tony Koltz
Jack Ryan: President of the United States
Mary Pat Foley: Director of national intelligence
Arnold “Arnie” van Damm: President Ryan’s chief of staff
Scott Adler: Secretary of state
Robert Burgess: Secretary of defense
Mark Dehart: Secretary of homeland security
Gerry Hendley: Director of The Campus and Hendley Associates
John Clark: Director of operations
Domingo “Ding” Chavez: Assistant director of operations
Jack Ryan, Jr.: Operations officer and senior analyst
Dominic “Dom” Caruso: Operations officer
Adara Sherman: Operations officer
Bartosz “Midas” Jankowski: Operations officer
Gavin Biery: Director of information technology
Lisanne Robertson: Director of transportation
Dr. Cathy Ryan: First Lady of the United States
Will Hyatt: U.S. Air Force Reaper pilot
Michelle Chadwick: United States senator
Randal Van Orden: Professor of astrophysics, U.S. Naval Academy
Alex Hardy: U.S. Naval Academy midshipman
Nikita Yermilov: President of Russia
Maksim Dudko: Yermilov’s aide
Erik Dovzhenko: Russian SVR officer stationed in Tehran
Colonel Pavel Mikhailov: Antonov 124 pilot, Russian Air Force
Elizaveta Bobkova: Russian SVR operative stationed in Washington, D.C.
Hugo Gaspard: French arms dealer
Lucile Fournier: French assassin
Urbano da Rocha: Portuguese arms dealer
Reza Kazem: Leader of the Persian Spring
Ayatollah Ghorbani: Lesser Ayatollah in Iran’s ruling council
Parviz Sassani: Major, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Maryam Farhad: Dovzhenko’s Iranian girlfriend
Ysabel Kashani: Iranian academic; Jack Junior’s former girlfriend
Atash Yazdani: Iranian aeronautical engineer
