There are the usual vicious murders, fear of double spies, wild chases and romantic intrigues that are in the Jake Ryan series.Ĭan our hero Jack foil the enemy plans before the brutal Cold War turns into a red winter – a nuclear war? You can guess the answer but the twists and turns in the trajectory keeps us reading. The 1985 setting brings back memories of the kilometre-long Russian tunnel build under Berlin, the miscommunications, dead drops and a mysterious thirteenth century Franciscan monastery – all described in Red Winter. There is also a useful map of East and West Berlin with clear depiction of the Berlin Wall. There is a handy map of the train route showing how the plane thieves escape through Nevada and Utah. They rush up the mountainside and are the first on the scene. They follow the test flights in the Nevada desert and eventually get a chip of the material when the test plane crashes. The Russian and Stasi spies want a piece of that material coating. The material coating of the new secret F-117 makes the plane impossible to detect by radar. The parallel story is set in the Nevada desert where the U.S. Being distrusted by all sides, she is headed for trouble. Who is the enemy in East Germany? The Russians? The Americans? The East Germans themselves? When the new CIA recruit from the great plains of America lands in West Berlin, the scene is set for her misadventures. MI6 is a lesser player but causes yet more confusion for the spies. These 1985 Cold War spies battle with both the CIA and the KBG. In Red Winter, Jack, a former marine and CIA analyst, is in enemy territory – East Germany.

He has taken over the authorship of the Tom Clancy series for the Clancy Estate. He has the experience to write spy thrillers. Marc Cameron is a retired Deputy Chief United States Marshall.

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