Locked On
By Tom Clancy & Mark Greaney
- Release Date: 2011-12-13
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Description
Though his father had been reluctant to become a heroic field operative, Jack Ryan, Jr. wants nothing more…
Privately training with special forces, he’s honing his combat skills to continue his work within the Campus, hunting down and eliminating terrorists wherever he can—even as Jack Ryan, Sr. campaigns to become President of the United States again.
But what neither father nor son knows is that the political and personal have just become equally dangerous. A devout enemy of Jack, Sr. launches a privately-funded vendetta to discredit him and connect him to a mysterious killing in his longtime ally John Clark’s past. All they have to do is catch him.
With Clark on the run, it’s up to Jack, Jr. to stop a growing threat emerging in the Middle East, where a corrupt Pakistani general has entered into a deadly pact with a fanatical terrorist to procure four nuclear warheads they can use to blackmail any world power into submission—or face annihilation.
Reviews
Another thriller
4By 58spdstrExcellent and thoroughly engaging plot. Technical, unpredictable with a human interest spinBad. Just bad.
1By FanofWillIf there is a plot here, it should reveal itself. And the dialogue. Yikes. Just poor. Couldn’t finish it.Still Good
4By Smokestack1996While I will admit that the newer books lack some of the spark and attention to detail that made me fall in love with Tom Clancy as a child, this novel set in the geopolitical “What If” world that Clancy created still delivers a gripping narrative. Jack Jr. and his associates’ fight against threats both foreign and in Washington kept me turning page after page to find out what would happen next. Clark’s struggle with age and his past makes for an excellent sub-plot while Ding’s continued exploits kept the action flowing and the firefights interesting. 8/10 read.Lacking any Semblance of Real Life
2By SC Badger FanClancy & Greaney made the "super heros" so super that the book lacked any semblance to reality. The heros were super strong, super knowledgable, super shots, super fast travelers, etc. Too super to be real. Also, Russian leaders would rather be blown to oblivion before they would allow any American to take over a military operation in their country. Finally, their Mexican-American character keep saying "mano" for what I assumed to be for "man". Mano in Spanish means hand. In the context it was used, it made no sense for a native Latin to use the word mano. My guess is that Greaney wrote most of this book. Not a typical Clancy book.Great thriller
5By Trivia crazedKept me turning the pages from beginning to end.Another poorly written novel
1By Scott5664Characters are beyond belief. Plot weaves around like a drunken driver. Author seems to take pleasure to introduce as many characters with impossible names as possible. Then uses their first name on one page and last name on next. The first Clancy books were enjoyable. Sadly they no longer are.My first Tom Clancy novel!
5By McZachary44I really enjoyed this one. It was a real page turner and helped compelled me back into the world of reading! Its definatly worth reading.Excellent
5By AgentXXXLCould not put this book down. Action packed. Certainly draw parallels to our current climate.Threat Vector
4By Ken 13737A very good read, typical Clancy.Locked On
3By Oz:1The ending was good. Unfortunately, the bulk of the book was not up to Clancy standards. Much of the book was so boring I literally had to force myself to read it. However, the ending make the story memorable. The subsequent book, Threat Vector, is much better.Junior picks up where Sr left off
5By kpatricksullivanThis was a slow-starting but quick to energy in the middle Clancy that takes the next step to getting Ryan Jr in his father's footsteps. There is the usual great ending, and even a hanger to lead into the next novel.Locked On
1By UglypersonAwful! Clancy should fire his ghost writer. Too many plot lines and to many characters with multiple alias'. The book goes on and on and I thought it would never end. It was a struggle to finish. When Clancy turned it over to his publisher, I have a hunch he was told to add another 100 pages and don't worry if it doesn't make sense. Either that or Clancy was paid by the word. This book was a major disappointment as I usually like the Clancy books.Tom got lazy with this one.
3By Wired-LessBig Tom Clancy Fan, and I especially like audio books. Lou Diamond Phillips does a fantastic job with this one, but for me it seemed that Clancy got lazy on the last quarter of this story and was going through the motions. Suggest Against All Enemies as a better read.Not a Clancy written book
2By ManUnited_fanAfter dead or alive and the return of a "real" Tom Clancy book, I had high hopes for "Locked On". 250 pages in and I'm quite disappointed. The Tom Clancy that wrote such masterful tomes as "Patriot Games", "Hunt for Red October", "The Cardinal of the Kremlin", etc. etc. So far has not written a sentence of this book! All the familiar characters, Jack Ryan Sr., his wife Cathy, John Clark, "Ding" Chavez, Mary Pat Foley all have completely different voices (Clancy fans will know what I mean). They do not remotely resemble the personalities from earlier books, its as if their substance were taken away and they are imposters reading lines. The life seems to have been sucked out of them and they seem very flat and one dimensional. It's sad really, I feel like I've lost some good friends.Decent Yarn - But time to be done
3By Dave PetriI've been a fan of Clancy's Jack Ryan universe since "The Hunt For Red October", so I very much wanted the post Jack Ryan presidency novels to keep me wanting more. Sadly though, the last three seemed to be week attempts to keep aging characters relevant in a different world than the one that Jack & John experienced in their earlier careers. It also seems that Tom has allowed his politics to becom more apparent in his novels by making Jack Ryan quite the partisan politician, which sadly has made him less likable. Jack Ryan of the earlier days came accross more aplolitical, making him more of a hero & way more interesting. I would love to see more back history novels that explore John Clark's or Jack Ryan's earlier careers (like Without Remorse & Red Rabbit). Tie in real history with these two great characters' life and let us learn more about their earlier exploits - especially John's. It seems that there are several great stories from his past worth exploring.Huge Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan fan, but this one disappointed me
3By KumarohaizeI'm a huge Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan fan, owning many of the books on hard book, audiobook, and even one on 8 cassette tapes. This one had a lot of the intrigue that Clancy has been famous for, but it also had some disappointing moments as well. Without spoiling anything, there was a cliffhanger at the end of the book that Clancy doesn't normally do, and it kind of irritated me. It gave me the impression I'd only read half the book and followed half the story line, even though that wasn't the case. Worse, this book is very heavily politicized, much more so than in the past. I'm not sure if was Tom Clancy or Mark Greaney's doing, but there is a huge amount of politics. It seems to be very biased against Democrats, and that's not something I've encountered in the past. The authors go out of their way to make democrats look bad in several different cases for no reason, showing them to be fools or just not understanding what's going on in the world. I've never walked away from a Tom Clancy book with as bad of an impression as I did with this one. Leave politics out of it in the future! That's not what this series is about.Locked On
5By BBsrealestateSo close to what can be happening today. Clancy again had me on page one. It's a nail bitter.Enjoyable as always
5By skingeterGreat travel book and true to form. Clancy does not disappoint!Wide open and plausible
4By BigUglyManiacClancy again flexes his prodigious writing muscles and his flair for off balance intrigue in this novel. He spends a great deal of time developing his next generation characters who are rough analogues of his archetypal stalwarts like Clark, Ding and Ryan. While his storyline is near perfect, he renders his enemies as paper thin crunches who are incapable of self doubt or double mindedness. His bold and masterful use of language and the cleanliness of his story structures harkens back to his earlier work where he had no peers. However, the Griffons and Grishams have been moving the bar in his absence, and may have had pulled even or perhaps nudged ahead at times. Regardless, you are the beneficiary of all their focused and effective efforts. This novel is fun!
