Command Authority

Adventure, suspense, war, subterfuge and Jack Ryan, Jr. A great combination.

Mark Greaney is developing very well as a classic Tom Clancy style writer. He gives us a great novel with Command Authority. It is written with good detail, lots of action, lots of references to previous adventures that Jack Ryan has been involved in and that his son Jack, Jr. is now starting to discover in his own right. The writing is crystal clear, spot on in regards to intelligence work and totally believable. The action doesn't let up from the beginning to the end. The Clancy Franchise continues to give us great novels to read written by those whom Tom was mentoring and developing. We miss Tom, but his style lives on through the writing of people such as Marek Greaney. In this story the Campus is still on hiatus because of the leaks within it's organization and / or the government. The operatives are all sitting on the sidelines waiting for the order to go back to work. Caruson, Clark, Chavez and Driscoll are working hard to keep their talents and skills honed to a fine point. But without somewhere to point their energies they are frustrated. Jack Ryan, Jr. on the other hand is in the United Kingdom where he is back to working as a financial analyst and doing a bit of Intelligence work on the side. He is bored. He is frustrated. He wants back in the action just like the rest of the Campus group. In the course of his work he will come across material that will lead him to delve back into his father's adventures and tie them together to current events to come up with a grip on the current Russian crisis that might cause the world to change as we know it. How will he take that info and put it to use? How will his dad, who is in his second term as President take this material and use it to win the day? Will The Campus get back on it's feet and the operatives get back into the game? I started reading as soon as I could and found that I was unable to put the book down. I just kept wanting to know how things were going to work out. I wanted to know how Jack, Jr. wa...