It's a tapestry of a tale, again in the classic Clancy/Ryan tradition.Ĭameron combines Clancy's eye for technothriller details and solid intelligence fiction well. Into this comes a potential defector from Communist East Germany (the DDR), a traitor somewhere in American intelligence inside West Germany, an F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter crashing in the Nevada desert, and a still-green CIA analyst named Jack Ryan. It's 1985, and the Cold War is just beginning its final thaw, even as tensions between East and West remain high. Set between the events of The Hunt for Red October and Cardinal of the Kremlin, Cameron's Red Winter takes place in prime Cold War territory. Until now, that is, with Marc Cameron taking readers back into the Cold War career of Ryan with last December's Red Winter. 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. In the mid-late 1980s, Tom Clancy rose through the bestseller charts with his Cold War thrillers featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan.
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