Mike Maden shows once again why he was such a brilliant choice to continue this franchise ... full of technical details and executed exactly the way Ryan’s creator would have written it, to the heart-pounding final act, Maden puts on one heck of a show. longtime Clancy fans will appreciate Maden’s efforts to stay true to the universe and characters Tom Clancy created, while also putting his own stamp on the series.
Maden’s second Jack Ryan Jr. novel in the Clancy franchise struggles to give a coherent picture of the politics of that troubled region... Characters repeatedly fall back on some variation of the phrase “It’s confusing,” and it’s doubtful that even Clancy himself could have explained it any better than Maden ... Only a nostalgic love of these aging characters will induce readers to plow through the formulaic plot to the unsurprising ending.
Clancy’s thriller industry lives on in this Jack Ryan Jr. adventure by Maden... Fast-moving and exciting, this one reads like it came from Clancy himself.
