It has been a while since I read a good Clancy book. This is book two in the Jack Ryan Jr series. Yes the son of the Jack Ryan. The first book while interesting was really not of a high caliber compared to Clancy's other books, unless you talk about one of the umpteen million op center books. The ending of that last book seemed to be to short and lacking.
This book takes off right where the last one ended and does a lot better job of telling a story.
A little more action oriented then Clancy's regular, a bit more like Rainbow Six. But the agents work with less planing then you would expect of Clancy's protagonists and they pay a higher cost for it.
The book does a great job of setting up the future of the series.