When not writing, Tom Clancy spends his downtime taking in ball games at Camden Yards where he is a part owner of the Baltimore Orioles. Clancy is an active advocate for Republican and conservative issues in America. He has made frequent guest appearances on conservative radio and television shows. Many of his books are dedicated to famous right-wing politicians and carry subject lines straight from the news. The large cast of characters is present here, too. Given how far Ryan, John Clark, the Foleys, and Dan Murray have gone in Clancy's later works (not to mention the novels since his passing), there's both a thrill and a challenge in returning to their earliest days. Cameron rises to both, highlighting and capturing how far Ryan had come from Patriot Games and Red October on his journey to becoming the character he would be by the time of Clear and Present Danger and The Sum of All Fears. Other familiar names and faces feel present and correct if sometimes popping in for cameo appearances in the cases of Greer and Ritter. The result is that, as well as a thrilling story, Red Winter feels like a reunion with old friends that have been long overdue. And, as a reader who got much out of those early Clancy novels, Cameron's work on Red Winter feels like a return to form.

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All across the USA, people are showing up dead. The deaths don't appear to be connected in any way until one particular death occurs and gets the Secretary of Defense's attention. He arranges for a task force to investigate.As events unfold in East Berlin, a problem also arises in Nevada. An experimental plane has crashed. The crash was witnessed by Garit Richter, a deep cover East German spy who was camped along with a group of watchers hoping to see a UFO. After killing two members of the group, Richter manages to escape with a piece of the plane that has an experimental coating on it. The pilot had ejected and witnessed Richter’s actions from a distance, setting off a massive manhunt for the spy.

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All your favorite characters like John Clark and Mary Pat are here, before they became “famous”. Marc does okay with his trip down memory lane, lighting a cigarette under the streetlight, getting shot on a staircase, and secret planes and moles and traitors and defectors and tunnels between the Berlins. Under Fire – 2010. The novel is written as though it takes place in late winter: it was sleeting in Washington and fake snow spray was used in Edinburgh. It is stated that the Forth Road Bridge tolls were reintroduced in February and that the seaside tourist season is three months away. However, the timelines of the next two novels set this sometime in late summer or early autumn. With other characters who return from other adventures, including John Clark Tom Clancy: Red Winter is a fast paced story that never lets up. With all of the intrigue, action and tension a Clancy reader hopes for in a Ryan novel, this one does not disappoint.While Foley and Ryan are battling against the bitter cold in Europe, the Nevada desert is heating up after a highly secretive aircraft unexpectedly crashes. A deep cover East German operative tasked with surveillance of the nearby airfields is one of the first to the scene, absconding with a piece of the radar shielding technology that may turn the war from cold to hot.

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The Tom Clancy novels have been called military thrillers, spy novels, techno-thrillers, political thrillers, simply thrillers, and so many more. This just shows how many genres his books can encompass, how many people it has touched, and how many worlds it has reached. Coincidentally, Cameron says he began his law enforcement career the same year Red October was published.The story begins in Berlin, 1985. The crushing stalemate of the Cold War continues as the East and the West engage in their usual espionage games. The most valuable piece on the board is an apparent Stasi source embedded deep within the CIA, providing invaluable information to the East Germany intelligence agency. However, the espionage balance is about to tip once again, when a young American embassy worker is handed a note in mysterious circumstances, apparently from a high-ranking member of the Stasi who wishes to defect to the West with a trove of information. Also I was lent many years ago one of Tom’s other series of books. It involved a covert monitoring station overlooking Iran or Iraq. This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( June 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Debt of Honor – 1995–1996. The end of the novel occurs eleven months before the 1997 presidential inauguration. Of interest, but not crucial to the plot of this or further books is that North and South Korea were said to be unified at some point between The Sum of All Fears and this book.