Marc Cameron, Tom Clancy (Series Creator)
Power and Empire
ALSO BY TOM CLANCY
The Hunt for Red October
Red Storm Rising
Patriot Games
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Clear and Present Danger
The Sum of All Fears
Without Remorse
Debt of Honor
Executive Orders
Rainbow Six
The Bear and the Dragon
Red Rabbit
The Teeth of the Tiger
Dead or Alive (with Grant Blackwood)
Against All Enemies (with Peter Telep)
Locked On (with Mark Greaney)
Threat Vector (with Mark Greaney)
Command Authority (with Mark Greaney)
Tom Clancy Support and Defend (by Mark Greaney)
Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect (by Mark Greaney)
Tom Clancy Under Fire (by Grant Blackwood)
Tom Clancy Commander in Chief (by Mark Greaney)
Tom Clancy Duty and Honor (by Grant Blackwood)
Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance (by Mark Greaney)
Tom Clancy Point of Contact (by Mike Maden)
Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship
Armored Cav: A Guided Tour Inside an Armored Cavalry Regiment
Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing
Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit
Airborne: A Guided Tour of an Airborne Task Force
Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier
Into the Storm: A Study in Command
with General Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.), and Tony Koltz
Every Man a Tiger: The Gulf War Air Campaign
with General Chuck Horner (Ret.) and Tony Koltz
Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces
with General Carl Stiner (Ret.) and Tony Koltz
Battle Ready
with General Tony Zinni (Ret.) and Tony Koltz
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
Jack Ryan: President of the United States
Scott Adler: Secretary of state
Mary Pat Foley: Director of national intelligence
Robert Burgess: Secretary of defense
Jay Canfield: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Arnold “Arnie” van Damm: President Ryan’s chief of staff
Gary Montgomery: Special agent in charge of Presidential Protection Detail, U.S. Secret Service
John Clark
Domingo “Ding” Chavez
Jack Ryan, Jr.
Dominic Caruso
Adara Sherman
Bartosz “Midas” Jankowski
Gavin Biery
Lisanne Robertson: Campus director of transportation
Monzaki Yukiko: Japanese intelligence operative
Lieutenant Commander Andrew Slaznik: MH-65 Dolphin helicopter pilot
Petty Officer 2nd Class Lance Kitchen: Dolphin rescue swimmer
Lieutenant Commander Jimmy Akana: Captain
Petty Officer 2nd Class Raymond Cooper: RQ-20 Puma operator
Lieutenant Junior Grade Steven Gitlin
Chief Petty Officer Bill Knight
Chief Petty Officer Bobby Rose
Petty Officer Peavy
Petty Officer Ridgeway
Dave Holloway: Captain
Zhao Chengzhi: General secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
Huang Ju: Colonel, Central Security Bureau; President Zhao’s principal protection officer
Li Zhengsheng: Foreign minister
Xu Jinlong: Lieutenant general, People’s Liberation Army; director of Central Security Bureau
Ma Xiannian: General, People’s Liberation Army
Long Yun: Colonel, Central Security Bureau; Foreign Minister Li’s principal protective officer
Eddie Feng: Taiwanese journalist
Magdalena Rojas: Thirteen-year-old victim of sex trafficking
Blanca Limón: Thirteen-year-old victim of sex trafficking
Ernie Pacheco, aka Matarife (The Slaughterer)
Lupe: “Bottom girl” who works for Matarife
Emilio Zambrano: Upper boss in cartel
Roy Calderon: Texas Department of Public Safety trooper
Kelsey Callahan: FBI special agent, commander of the Dallas Crimes Against Children Task Force
John Olson: Special Agent, FBI, on CAC Task Force
That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
PROLOGUE
A dozen men clad in bright orange coveralls and white hardhats swarmed the decks of CGSL Orion, the 396-meter flagship of China Global Shipping Lines, like ants. The hollow thud of metal box against metal box rattled the air, adding a bass note to the scream of gears and the whine of spinning cable drums. Gargantuan orange gantry cranes towering fifty meters above dipped and rose, then dipped again, their noses swinging back and forth from dock to ship with payloads of white, green, blue, or red metal containers known as TEUs, or twenty-foot equivalent units.