We have been really impressed by our visit to BaDaLing section of The Great Wall of China that is North West of Beijing but thankful that we did not encounter the adventure detailed in this novel!
The various zero day cyber attack scenarios imagined are certainly a wake-up call to develop contemporary conflict avoidance measures, but I question the supposed volatile capability of the described malicious software to infect the varied host computer hardware which can vary from the little to big endian implementations.

We have been really impressed by our visit to BaDaLing section of The Great Wall of China that is North West of Beijing but thankful that we did not encounter the adventure detailed in this novel!
The various zero day cyber attack scenarios imagined are certainly a wake-up call to develop contemporary conflict avoidance measures, but I question the supposed volatile capability of the described malicious software to infect the varied host computer hardware which can vary from the little to big endian implementations.

I started this one back in 2019. I think I read about 50% of it and I can't explain why I didn't finish it because it was a really good book. The only thing I can think of is that I had something else I was itching to read and forgot to come back to this one. Anyway, all of these Mark Greaney books in the Ryan verse or just well written, enjoyable, and about a third the length of some of the way-too-long Tom Clancy books.

Early Clancy was some of the best fiction I've ever read in my life. The cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger, The Hunt for Red October, these books were just absolutely unputdownable. One of my all-time favorite novels, Without Remorse, is my absolute favorite Clancy book. He was at the top of his game with that book but even his later novels were enjoyable. The Sum of all Fears, Debt of Honor, Executive orders. I enjoyed these books. They were just a bit bloated.

The last couple of books he wrote...I have trouble believing he actually wrote them. I think Executive Orders and the Bear and the Dragon were mostly ghostwritten. Just like when the series picked back up with all his guest authors. I think he was doing that before hand. Those books just weren't quite as focused and the quality fell off a bit.

Mark Greaney is not Tom Clancy. There are very few Tom Clancy's out there. But he is a very serviceable, very polished, and worthy successor to carry on the series.

I have also read a couple of his Gray Man novels and they are enjoyable as well. Perhaps even a bit more organic since they are his own characters rather than continuing on a series begun by a legend.

Threat Vector is more of the same that you come to expect from Greaney and the Campus crew. If you have liked all of the books written since the series restarted, you will like this one. Somebody said that it was way too long like Rainbow Six. Whoever said that is a maniac. This book is like half the words/length of Rainbow Six.

Anyway, I've rambled long enough but you already know whether you will like this type of book. If you've read anything by Mark Greaney and enjoyed it, you will enjoy this one. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

One of the better JPR JR books. Still not thrilled about clancys endings to books. He leaves a lot unsaid and unfinished.

Another gift from my father-in-law. Not what I usually like to read, but definitely better than the other two Tom Clancy books he gave me.

OK, was my first Jack Ryan thriller, I liked the story about the cyberwar, however the story content does not justify the pages count.

I really loved this book in one respect — it was one of the most plot-twisty Clancy books I read, and I loved his all the stories crisscrossed and came together in the end.

The one major retraction for me was it just seemed too implausible. One of the great things about Clancy books for me is their slightly chilling sense of possibility; they’re not 100% realistic, but they present situations that are possible enough to make you think. This book, however, seemed just a little too far fetched, in terms of everything happening at the same time in China, and the main characters just always happening to be in the right place at the right time. At times it felt just shy of jumping the shark.

Still an exciting page turner, though!

The plot was great but the writing was more a script than a story.