Tom Clancy Red Winter: A Jack Ryan Novel, Book 22
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Tom Clancy Red Winter: A Jack Ryan Novel, Book 22 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Marc Cameron (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)
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In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the truth about a potential Soviet defector in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series.

1985

A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets.

In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer—invaluable details of his government’s espionage plans in return for asylum.

It’s an offer they can’t pass up…if it’s genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly stumble into a deal. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the potential defector. It’s a job Deputy Director James Greer can only trust to one man—Jack Ryan.

Ryan is a former Marine and a brilliant CIA analyst who’s been the architect of some of the CIA’s biggest coups but this time he’s in enemy territory with a professional assassin on his tail. Can he get the right answers before the Cold War turns into a Red Winter?

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    12 hours and 37 minutes
  2. Author
    Marc Cameron
  3. Narrator
    Scott Brick
  4. Audible release date
    December 6, 2022
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Random House Audio
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Listening Length 12 hours and 37 minutes
Author Marc Cameron
Narrator Scott Brick
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Audible.com Release Date December 06, 2022
Publisher Random House Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B09VMCHRNL
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wizard39
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read…Brutal read, at some parts.
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2024
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Most folks have no idea what it’s like to live under a totalitarian government, and the East German government in Berlin, in the 80’s,and would almost make George Orwell blush.
Good to see characters like Jack Ryan and Mary Foley, in the earlier stages of their career, and how the bonds were forged. Of course, John Clark was classic John Clark. All in all, an enjoyable read with a high Suspense level.
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Matthew Kresal
4.0 out of 5 stars A Cold War Return To Form For Jack Ryan
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2023
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In the mid-late 1980s, Tom Clancy rose through the bestseller charts with his Cold War thrillers featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan. Yet, just as Clancy was firmly establishing himself at the top of bestseller lists, the Cold War ended, sending the author to seek new threats for Ryan to face on a journey that took him to the Oval Office. And, except in 2002's Red Rabbit, that's where Clancy and his continuation novelists have left the character. Until now, that is, with Marc Cameron taking readers back into the Cold War career of Ryan with last December's Red Winter.

Set between the events of The Hunt for Red October and Cardinal of the Kremlin, Cameron's Red Winter takes place in prime Cold War territory. It's 1985, and the Cold War is just beginning its final thaw, even as tensions between East and West remain high. Into this comes a potential defector from Communist East Germany (the DDR), a traitor somewhere in American intelligence inside West Germany, an F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter crashing in the Nevada desert, and a still-green CIA analyst named Jack Ryan. It's a tapestry of a tale, again in the classic Clancy/Ryan tradition.

Cameron combines Clancy's eye for technothriller details and solid intelligence fiction well. Indeed, by focusing a portion of the narrative on the Nighthawk, Cameron can fill in the early years of stealth in a manner that Clancy only guessed at when writing before it was publically acknowledged. The attention to detail about late Cold War tradecraft and spy tech, too, feels present and correct, including lines of communication between the divided halves of Berlin and an East German spy among UFO watchers on the fringe of the soon-to-be-infamous Area 51 in the Nevada desert. Indeed, arguably they're more on the money than Clancy was in his own prequel Red Rabbit two decades before! And while Cameron's short, pacey chapters depart from Clancy's sometimes lengthy ones, they serve the story he's telling here and make this a solid read.

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.

Even with a few imperfections along the way. The halves of the narrative, the one following Ryan with the defector and the crash of the stealth with the FBI's Dan Murray searching for an escaping spy, never quite intersect in true Clancy style. The large cast of returning characters also comes across in places as a hindrance as much as a help, never quite being a box-checking exercise, but leaving a number of them as cameos or in plotlines that are nice but slightly underwhelming. These are comparatively minor blemishes, given how utterly readable Red Winter is, but ones perhaps to be aware of going into the novel.

And even with them, Red Winter is an unhesitating recommendation for Clancy fans. It's a novel that wonderfully recaptures the feel of those early, classic novels, and sits well alongside them. Not to mention hopefully being the start of a new era for the Jack Ryan continuation novels, something this reader would happily sign up for.
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Ted Brady
5.0 out of 5 stars A great writer!
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2024
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This was a great read which I totally enjoyed.
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stephen scott
5.0 out of 5 stars A good read
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2022
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As others have said, it’s a great read. Yes a few typos with the wrong gender being mentioned twice I noticed, he / she. Thought the proof reading would have caught that. Also a great backstory adding to Mary Pats character, as I think her only other field assignment to be documented was cardinal of the Kremlin.
Of more concern for me was the feeling of a continuity error, as John Clark knows he will be protecting John Ryan in this op and yet when they meet in person years later in Clear and present danger at the hospital following James greer’s death, Clark tells Ryan their paths have crossed three times. Twice through events in Patriot Games and once during cardinal of the Kremlin, where he explains he was the person that was on the beach helping to get gerasimov’s wife and daughter out of the country. It doesn’t detract from this story, rather a small quibble from someone that’s read through most of the Clancy universe. TBH, I don’t know how this could be avoided without compromising the story, as the addition of Clark’s role in this story is excellent. Oh, it’s also A nice inside joke when they quote Johnny Cash’s I’ve been everywhere man, when a pilot says to Dan Murray ‘ If your Going to winnemucca, man, with me you can ride” that’s gold.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great plots
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2024
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Great plots developed in parallel with realistic scenarios as always. More than just another spy novel with interesting twists and turns
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teacherdan
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read, but not a page turner.
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2023
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Well-told story. Some of the background could be expanded. Characterizations are accurate but a bit thin at times. Overall, a good read, but it didn’t keep me up all night.
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Moose
5.0 out of 5 stars Can't go wrong.
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2024
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Can't go wrong with any Clansey or Ryan. Read them all.
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Bill Bolen
3.0 out of 5 stars Please do better
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024
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It was an OK story that filled in a few gaps, but Jack Ryan isn’t really the central figure in this story. He did very little and could have been substituted with almost anyone else and had the same outcome. I was frankly more interested in what John Clark was doing than Jack Ryan. Please spend more time in nailing the central theme to lock the main character as key to the story. MPF had more going on in this story than JR. It just felt very thin on substance and did little to paint a picture of what it was like in East Berlin before the wall fell. Maybe should have watched Atomic Blonde and read a few other books before attempting to write about this place and time in history.
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Cesar
5.0 out of 5 stars Great as always !
Reviewed in Brazil on February 6, 2024
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Good to know we still have capable people writing just like Tom Clancy used to.
Hope it continues that way !
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Vesna
5.0 out of 5 stars great read
Reviewed in Canada on November 16, 2023
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Been a Clancy fan for years. Great read with a lot of action and intrigue. Nice to see books about the earlier Jack RYAN .
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Jose Luis Angulo Givaudan
1.0 out of 5 stars Please let Tom Clancy’s heritage rest in peace.
Reviewed in Mexico on March 7, 2023
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I know the money machine has to keep moving, but smearing Clancy’s name with this lousy writing, convoluted and horribly concocted storylines, do no honor to his memory and infuriate Mr. Clancy’s admirers, used to his superb writing and storytelling abilities. This book is one of the worst i’ve read, and I’ve read them all.
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John McCash
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 17, 2023
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A genuinely fast pace story which I read all at one reading. It had been a while since I have read a Tom Clancy story and now I will buy a few more. Well written, fast paced and an enjoyable read. Well done to all concerned.
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Alfredo
5.0 out of 5 stars a réal Tom Clancy
Reviewed in France on October 21, 2023
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Thanks to bringing back to us. Well done
An interesting peace of old story …Berlin and the wall..and what is used to be…
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