Tom Clancy
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In this race-to-the-finish thriller in the bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, an attempt to exfiltrate a Chinese scientist threatens to incite a full-fledged war between China and the United States.
When the launch of their powerful new hypersonic missile ends in destruction, the Chinese government needs someone to blame. Was it a failure of engineering, or sabotage? The chief engineer on the project, Dr. Yang Dà yóu, is targeted as the...
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For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn.
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 34
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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,...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 5
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 33
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543 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 8
Pub. Date
c1994
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766 p. ; 24 cm.
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A Japanese financier seeks revenge on the United States for the death of his parents during World War II, devising a scheme which threatens to plunge the world into another world war. Jack Ryan, the president's national security advisor, is given the task of stopping him. By the author of Clear and Present Danger.
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c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
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431 p. ; 23 cm.
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n the Brave New World of terrorism--where anybody with a spare AK-47, a knowledge of kitchen chemistry, or simply the will to die can become a player--the old rules no longer apply. No matter what new governmental organizations come into being, the only truly effective ones are those that are quick and agile, free of oversight and restrictions ... and outside the system. "Way outside the system. In a nondescript office building in suburban Maryland,...
9) Red rabbit
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
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618 p. ; 24 cm.
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In the early days of his career, Jack Ryan accepts a first assignment as freelance analyst under James Greer of the CIA and faces a mission involving a high-level Soviet defector who has reported a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.
10) Red storm rising
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c1986
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652 p. ; 24 cm.
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When Moslem fundamentalists destroy a key Soviet oil complex, the Russians initiate a plan of diplomatic trickery for their seizure of Persian Gulf oil.
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 11
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 66
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1,028 p. ; 24 cm.
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In the wake of an assassination attempt on the SVR (former KGB) chairman, newly elected U.S. president Jack Ryan puts black ops specialist John Clark on the alert, only to have things complicated by dangerous forces in China.
12) Rainbow Six
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 10
Pub. Date
c1998
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740 p. ; 24 cm.
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At its heart is John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL of Without Remorse and well-known from several of Clancy's novels as "the dark side of Jack Ryan," the man who conducts the secret operational missions Ryan can have no part of. Whether hunting warlords in Japan, druglords in Colombia, or nuclear terrorists in the United States, Clark is efficient and deadly, but even he has ghosts in his past, demons that must be exorcised. And nothing is more demonic...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c1993
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639 p ; 24 cm.
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Clancy shows how an ordinary man crossed the lines of justice and morality to become the CIA legend Mr. Clark.
14) Battle ready
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c2004
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IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 32
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450 p. ; 24 cm.
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Marine General Tony Zinni was known as the "Warrior Diplomat" during his nearly forty years of service. As a soldier, his credentials were impeccable, whether leading troops in Vietnam, commanding hair-raising rescue operations in Somalia, or-as Commander in Chief of CENTCOM-directing strikes against Iraq and Al Qaeda. But it was as a peacemaker that he made just as great a mark-conducting dangerous troubleshooting missions all over Africa, Asia,...
15) Executive orders
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 9
Pub. Date
1996
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874 p. ; 24 cm.
16) Act of valor
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p2011
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8 sound discs (ca. 8 hr., 58 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A novelization based on the movie, which is inspired by true events. When the rescue of a kidnapped CIA operative leads to the discovery of a deadly terrorist plot against the U.S., a team of SEALs is dispatched on a worldwide manhunt. Act of Valor takes listeners deep into the secretive world of the most elite, highly trained group of warriors in the modern world.
17) Target acquired
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[2021]
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viii, 419 pages ; 24 cm.
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Jack Ryan, Jr. would do anything for Ding Chavez. That's why Jack is currently sitting in an open-air market in Israel, helping a CIA team with a simple job. The man running the mission, Peter Beltz, is an old friend from Ding's Army days. Ding hadn't seen his friend since Peter's transfer to the CIA eighteen months prior, and intended to use the assignment to reconnect. Unfortunately, Ding had to cancel at the last minute and asked Jack to take his...
18) Threat vector
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Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Quiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion of Taiwan. The Ryan administration is determined to thwart China's ambitions, but the stakes are...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2014
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xiii, 674 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don't have.