Tom Clancy
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
When a Japanese airliner plows into the Capitol building killing the President and most of the members of his Cabinet and Congress, Jack Ryan reluctantly assumes the role of Commander in Chief and must simultaneously calm the nation, conduct an investigation, reassemble the government, and face off with the country's enemies.
10) Threat vector
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
President Jack Ryan is back in office and economic and internal political strife has pushed Chinese leadership to the edge, so that the president must use the secret organization The Campus even though revelation of its existence will put its members in danger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Formats
Description
Decades ago, when he was a young CIA analyst, President Jack Ryan, Sr. was sent on what was supposed to be a simple support mission to investigate the death of an operative who had been looking into suspicious banking activities at a Swiss bank. Ryan's dogged tenacity uncovered not only financial deceit, but also the existence of a KGB assassin, code-named Zenith. He was never able to find the killer. But in the shadowy world of covert operations,...
14) Locked on
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Coming out of retirement to run for president, Jack Ryan finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes attack from his opponent as his close comrade, John Clark, is the subject of treacherous charges, at the same time Jack Ryan, Jr. and other members of Campus struggle to stop terrorists.
18) Rainbow Six
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 51
Language
English
Description
Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark, newly appointed head of an international anti-terrorism task force, begins to see a pattern in a rash of seemingly separate episodes that leads to the discovery of a group of terrorists whose cunning and skill threatens to alter the entire fabric of life on Earth.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
Description
Provides an inside look at the career of General Fred Franks, one of the leading American military commanders during the Gulf War, and discusses the transformations he observed in the United States Army in the years between the Vietnam War and the conflict in Iraq.
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