Dead or Alive (novel)

Dead or Alive (novel)
Dead or Alive  
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Author(s) Tom Clancy, with Grant Blackwood
Country United States
Language English
Series Jack Ryan universe
Genre(s) Thriller
Publisher Putnam Adult
Publication date 7 December 2010
Pages 950 (First Edition)
ISBN 978-0399157233
Preceded by The Teeth of the Tiger
Followed by Against All Enemies

Dead or Alive is a political thriller novel by Tom Clancy and co-authored by Grant Blackwood, featuring Jack Ryan. It was published on December 7, 2010.

It reportedly unites characters from Clancy’s fictional world, including Jack Ryan (the former CIA analyst and president), his son, Jack Ryan, Jr., his cousins Dominic and Brian Caruso and former clandestine operatives John Clark and Ding Chavez of the novel Rainbow Six. It follows the characters on a mission to capture a middle eastern terrorist, Saif Rahman Yasin (known as "The Emir"), a character heavily based on Osama bin Laden, and responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the universe's storyline.

Summary

When John Clark and Domingo "Ding" Chavez are forcibly retired from both the CIA and Rainbow Six, they join Jack Ryan, Jr. at "The Campus", a privately-run intelligence organization carrying 100 blank Presidential Pardons (signed by Jack Ryan, Sr. before he left office) for any actions they may choose to take based on the information they collect. John and Ding take the responsibility to train Jack Jr. for field work while they try to crack a plot by a group of Islamic extremists to assemble and detonate a nuclear device in a nuclear waste storage facility in order to poison the water table for the western United States. Meanwhile, Jack Ryan, Sr. decides that he's had enough of the way his successor, President Ed Kealty, is running the country, and subsequently announce his candidacy for President of the United States.

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