And, except in 2002's Red Rabbit, that's where Clancy and his continuation novelists have left the character. Yet, just as Clancy was firmly establishing himself at the top of bestseller lists, the Cold War ended, sending the author to seek new threats for Ryan to face on a journey that took him to the Oval Office. Cameron's books have been nominated for both the Barry Award and the Thriller Award.In the mid-late 1980s, Tom Clancy rose through the bestseller charts with his Cold War thrillers featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan. Cameron is conversant in Japanese, and travels extensively researching his New York Times-bestselling Jericho Quinn novels. He served as a uniformed police officer, mounted (horse patrol) officer, SWAT officer, and a U.S. He passed away in October 2013.Ī native of Texas, Marc Cameron spent almost thirty years in law enforcement. His first effort, The Hunt for Red October, sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it 'the perfect yarn.' From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. Years before, he had been an English major at Baltimore's Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel. Can he get the right answers before the Cold War turns into a Red Winter?Ī little more than thirty years ago, Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history.

Ryan is a former Marine and a brilliant CIA analyst who’s been the architect of some of the CIA’s biggest coups but this time he’s in enemy territory with a professional assassin on his tail. It’s a job Deputy Director James Greer can only trust to one man-Jack Ryan.

With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the potential defector. It’s an offer they can’t pass up…if it’s genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly stumble into a deal.

In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer-invaluable details of his government’s espionage plans in return for asylum. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the truth about a potential Soviet defector in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Ī top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert.

Red winter by marc cameron