This is a really bad pot boiler of a book. Clancey has really struggled since he lost the Soviets as a protagonist. I can only assume the Baltimore Orioles have asked him for more money recently which has forced TC to dash this ill thought out piece. This book's main premise that having had bad things done to you permits the creation of a "Death Wish" agency outside the control of the government in place is too crazy to accept. That such a department would be created by Jack Ryan, flies in the face of his character development. We are left with two nephews and his son driving around Europe with a poison pen all with his blank presidential pardon... oh come on please!