Command Authority

13 does not disappoint. Enjoyed seeing Jack Jr’s character being developed even more. I highly recommend this as well as the previous 12 books.

First it is absolutely amazing to be reading this extremely prescient book at exactly the same time that the Russians are in process of taking over the Crimea. This is at least the second time Tom Clancy has done this, the other being in his 1994 book "Debt of Honor" when he used a plane to wipe out the Capitol much as the 9/11 terrorists tried to do just a few years later. This choice of book subjects is a proof of how connected Tom Clancy's art is to life in the real world.A second point is that from the second I started reading this book I felt the difference in the quality of the narrative between it and many of the self published Kindle books I have been reading of late. There truly is a difference in book quality between the really professional writers and people who are just beginning to get into the writing business.This is the second Tom Clancy/Mark Greaney collaboration I have read in the last several months, I read "Threat Vector" a few months ago and felt it was a better book than "Command Authority". It had a better flow and a more rapid pace. I did not like the jumping back thirty years in time in this book, I don't think it added that much to the story and was often confusing about which Jack Ryan and in which scenario each chapter was operating. This is the main reason I gave it four stars instead of five.Nonetheless I think the book is pretty damn good and amazing with regard to its descriptions of Crimea, Kiev, and the Ukraine. It is so accurate that in my mind the blending together of what is happening today in the Ukraine was getting me mixed up as to which is the fictional and which is the real world. The Volodin character is also just like Putin, and the way that Russia is described in the book seems to be a pretty accurate description of the Putin Russia we all see today. It will be interesting to see if Mark Greaney will be able to keep the Tom Clancy franchise going now that Tom is no longer around to contribute his ideas. Good luck with this Mark, we will be reading and watching.

I love the action in these books. I also love the love of family, a love of a husband and wife and the love of a patriot for his country! Highly recommend these books to anyone who loves intricate stories, detailed weaponry, and brave men!

This huge book combines tales of two timeframes and of two main plots in the later timeframe. Two of these three plots are real page-turners. Unfortunately, the way the book is structured makes the third one barely tolerable.The book begins with two unrelated "Present Day" stories: (1) Jack Ryan, Jr., the son of President Jack Ryan, in Europe tracking a suspected traitor and (2) John Hart and his Campus crew (Chavez, Driscoll, Caruso, Biery) in Ukraine helping to thwart an invasion by a corrupt Russian leadership. These two plots have some highly intriguing and fast-paced action. And the action in Ukraine is realistic, given the actual state of affairs in Ukraine today.But then the "Thirty Years Earlier" stories about Jack Sr. are added in; and these are lengthy, slow going, and at first have no connection with the rest of the book. Initially these interspersed tales of the past only serve to disrupt the action of the two plots in the present and are, for the most part, yawners. But if you snooze you'll really loose and start mixing up the old with the new. At least the "Thirty Years Earlier" stories have vertical lines down both margins (in the Kindle edition) in a rather telling attempt to separate them from the "Present Day" stories.Then, late in the book these "Thirty Years Earlier" stories dwell on very complicated past interrelationships between some of the characters in the "Present Day" adventures of Jack Ryan, Jr., and these two plots merge. One exciting firefight follows, during which loose ends are finally tied up, including connections to the corruption in Russia. The fierce fighting in Ukraine is then readdressed for the first time in half the book, and all three plots merge. The invasion of Ukraine and the Russian corruption are dealt with in the last five exciting chapters, which include another thrilling firefight.As overly ambitious as it is, this book with all it's exhilarating ingredients might have been truly sensational had it been written in a more linear fashion. But for readers absent eidetic memories, it's highly labyrinthine..

Non stop action and a real good read. This to me was one of the best Jack Ryan books with all of its twists and turns. Looking forward to the next in the series.

Ridicule I gave a maximum rating on the syar chart therefor I do not have th need to write more

Muy fácil de leer, a pesar de los nombres de los numerosos personajes que intervienen a lo largo de la novela.Desde luego tiene sus imprescindibles dosis de acción, complot a nivel mundial, primeras figuras de EEUU y Rusia, y un cierto maniqueísmo respecto a quienes son los ángeles y los demonios (no hace falta pensar demasiado para adivinarlo).He echado en falta, aparte de la aparente falta de sentimientos en la mayor parte de los "secundarios", una pizquita de humor que hiciera algo más llevadera la trama y acción.

一気に読みました、彼の作品もっと読みたかったですね、本当に残念

O livro retoma a forma de narrativa comum de encontrar nos livros mais antigos, onde o Jack Rayan (pai) era o personagem principal. Leitura fácil e divertida.