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1) Following Atticus: how a little dog led one man on a journey of rediscovery to the top of the world
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Tom Ryan is an overweight, no-nonsense newspaper editor. When Atticus M. Finch, a miniature schnauzer, arrives, he questions everything about his life. Wanting to raise money in memory of a friend who died of cancer, Tom decides that they will both climb 48 of New Hampshire's mountains during a single winter - twice!
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Freeze or drown. He wasn't sure which one would come first. It didn't really matter. Either way, Jack Ryan, Jr. knew he was going to die in the next two minutes. When Jack Ryan Jr is sent to Singapore on what seems a routine administrative task, he worries he's being sidelined in the war on terror. But it soon becomes clear there's more to the mission - and his unassuming new partner, Paul Brown - than meets the eye. With North Korean missile testing...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Covert operative Jack Ryan Jr is enjoying some well-earned R&R when an attempt is made on his life. He survives, only to learn that another attempt on his life is imminent. Jack sets out to find out who wants him dead, and why. Using clues left by his would-be assassin, Jack follows a trail that leads through France and Switzerland to Rostock, a shadowy security firm based in Germany. Jack knows its head, Jurgen Rostock, from a previous operation...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. The international stalemate with North Korea continues into its seventh decade. A young dictator is determined to prove his strength by breaking the deadlock. Like his father before him, he hangs his plans on the country's nuclear ambitions. Until now, that program was impeded by a lack of resources. However, there has been a dramatic change in the nation's economic...
Author
Publisher
Piatkus
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Tom Ryan touched the hearts of thousands when he wrote about his intrepid little dog Atticus and their quest to climb 48 mountains to raise money in memory of a friend who had died of cancer. But nothing touched his fans more than the story of Will, the old, gruff dog whom Tom and Atticus brought into their home in May 2012, believing that they were simply doing a good deed by helping nurse an old dog through his final days. With the right attention...
6) Sycamore Gap
Author
Series
The DCI Ryan Mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
The past never stays buried for long ... Detective Chief Inspector Ryan believes he has put his turbulent history behind him. Then, in the early hours of the summer solstice, the skeleton of a young woman is found inside the Roman Wall at Sycamore Gap. She has lain undiscovered for 10 years, and it is Ryan's job to piece together her past. Enquiry lines cross and merge as Ryan is forced to face his own demons and enter into a deadly game of cat and...
Author
Publisher
Red Fox
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Chris Ryan reveals for the first time the true aim of the Bravo Two Zero mission. He reveals, too, how inept their briefing was, and how inadequate and faulty their maps and equipment were. But this only makes this story of heroism even more remarkable.
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Ryan is presented with yet another deadly mission in the latest thriller by Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy's last and most successful collaborator.
Author
Series
Jack Ryan Jr volume 9
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The world trembles on the brink of a second Korean War. And Jack Ryan, Jr. is the one man who can prevent it. When the Supreme Leader of North Korea is catastrophically injured, his incapacitation triggers a dead man's switch, activating an army of sleeper agents in South Korea and precipitating a struggle for succession. Jack is in Seoul to interview a potential addition to the private intelligence organization The Campus. But his benign trip takes...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
On a routine intelligence gathering mission in Tehran, Jack Ryan, Jr, has lunch with his oldest friend, Seth Gregory, an engineer overseeing a transcontinental railway project. As they part, Seth slips Jack a key, along with a perplexing message. The next day Jack is summoned to an apartment where two men claim Seth has disappeared - gone to ground with funds for a vital intelligence operation. Jack's oldest friend has turned, they insist. They leave...
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