Written in
the style of Tom Clancy, Mike Maden has written a Jack Ryan, Jr. novel. Jack
Senior is now the President and is well aware of the clandestine missions on
which is son is sent. However, it is his mother, the ophthalmologic surgeon,
who has unknowingly sent Jack on the dangerous part of this mission. Posing as
a financial analyst, Ryan was sent to Bosnia, but then his mother asked him to
look up a girl she had operated on years before – had saved the sight of this
little girl who had been caught up in the factional disputes in the Bosnia. She
had exchanged letters with the girl for a while, but then contact was lost.
What Ryan found was a staggeringly beautiful woman who had fully recovered from
her wartime injuries. On the surface, she was running a relief organization for
refugees near Sarajevo, but she had deep ties to the old blood feuds, which led
to Jack being caught in the middle.
I listened
to this one on tape, looking for respite from the current political drama/trauma
in the U.S. And it served my purposes. If you like Clancy, you’ll like Maden.
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