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Zusatztext LOCKED ON “Hard to put down” -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “The action scenes alone come across beautifully! as visual as anything on a movie screen! with the added enticement of crisp! accurate and hard-driving prose.” -- Orlando Sentinel THREAT VECTOR “Each plotline comes to us mainly in a series of tightly written action scenes...as visual as anything on a movie screen! with the added enticement of crisp! accurate and hard driving prose.”— Chicago Tribune “Hard to put down.”— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette COMMAND AUTHORITY “Once again! the acrid scent of cordite wafted through my imagination during the climactic gun battle as Clancy’s characters from the world of intelligence achieved yet another victory over the forces of evil.” — The Washington Times “Vintage Clancy.” -- Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor A little more than thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Years before! he had been an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel. 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. He passed away in October 2013. Mark Greaney has a degree in international relations and political science. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tom Clancy Support and Defend ! Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect ! Tom Clancy Commander in Chief ! and Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance . With Tom Clancy he coauthored Locked On ! Threat Vector ! and Command Authority. He has written six books in his own Gray Man series: Gunmetal Gray ! Back Blast ! Dead Eye ! Ballistic ! On Target ! and The Gray Man . In his research for these novels! he traveled to fifteen countries! and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms! battlefield medicine! and close-range combat tactics. PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT THE CAMPUS THE NORTH KOREANS OTHER CHARACTERS PROLOGUE John Clark didn’t give a damn what anybody said—this was still Saigon. He knew history, of course. Forty years ago the communists came down from the north and they took the place. They renamed it Ho Chi Minh City in honor of their conquering leader. To the victors the spoils. They executed collaborators and imprisoned unreliables and they changed the politics, the culture, and the fabric of the lives of those who lived here. It looked a little different now, but to John it felt the same. The cloying evening heat and the smell of exhaust fumes mixing with the pressing jungle, the incense and cigarette smoke and the spiced meat, the buzz of the stifling crowds and the lights from the energetic streets. And the sense of pervasive danger, just out of sight but closing, like an invading army. They could name this city after his sworn enemy from the past, they could call it whatever the hell they wanted, but to the sixty-six-year-old man sitting in the open-front café in District 8, that didn’t change a thing. This was still fucking Saigon. — Clark sat with his legs crossed, his shirt collar open, and his tan tropic-weight sport coat lying across the chair next to him because the slow-moving palm-frond fan above him did nothing more than churn the hot air. Younger men and women swirled around him, heading either to tables in the back or out onto the busy pavement in front of the café, but...
