A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. So well-adapted to the entire series, this could have been the late Tom Clancy’s second novel.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing.
The many characters are all spot-on, the scope is wide-ranging, and the action reaches to the dreaded Hohenschönhausen Prison-readers are guaranteed to hate the freckle-faced guard Mitzi Graff as much as they will admire Ryan and Foley.
Cameron is but one of the authors who so skillfully maintains the Clancy legacy that began in the 1980s. There, they face a peck of trouble, but luckily, “Ryan wasn't exactly a neophyte when it came to hairy situations,” nor is Foley to be mistaken for a shrinking violet. Jack Ryan and Mary Pat Foley cross through Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin and bypass the “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,” known to us bourgeoisie as the Berlin Wall. The CIA suspects it has a mole, whom they code-name Fledermaus. Uwe Hauptman is doing important research on radar-absorbing surfaces. Meanwhile (this story has lots of meanwhiles), the East German aeronautical physicist Dr. Meanwhile in West Berlin, a low-level Foreign Service officer is asked to meet a possible defector, an encounter that takes a terrible turn. suspects that someone has removed a piece of secret radar-absorbing material from the wreckage. Making off with a small piece of the wing he must somehow smuggle across the Iron Curtain, he leaves a trail of dead and wounded in his wake.
military aircraft he correctly presumes to be “beyond big” in importance. A woman guides him through a mountainous area, where he discovers the remains of a U.S. Only the East German spy who happens to be among them suspects an earthly explanation. The trouble starts in 1985, near Area 51 in Nevada, where UFO believers witness a flash in the night sky and anticipate an extraterrestrial visit.
Not “too many months” after dispatching a tricky submarine issue in The Hunt for Red October, young Jack Ryan faces a deadly East German foe.
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