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1. Masterful
   I’ve read a number of Marc’s books now. He is a very good writer and takes the reader into a character’s world to a depth few can accomplish.Shadow of the Dragon is a masterful continuation of the Jack Ryan books, with John Clark and the other characters from Tom Clancy’s heritage. I haven’t read all the books in the Jack Ryan series, but all the John Clark books by Clancy. You could say I’m a fan. As a Vietnam Vet, I first identified with Clancy’s John Clark in With No Remorse, in part due to my ship playing a role in a part of the book.Since then, I’ve read as much of the continuation of Clancy’s universe as I can fit in my TBR list.Marc Cameron became my favorite Clancy author. He must use exhaustive research, as well as drawing from his long experience. He knows his weapons. He knows operations. He understands the government agencies in play and how they are managed. He draws heavily on this in brining the story along.Throughout the book, I was impressed with how well Marc merged current events and geo-political relationships into a well-crafted, solid story. You will read this and think this is what’s happening today in our world.Thank you, Marc, for a great, entertaining read. I recommend this for anyone interested in the Clancy universe. Even those of you who only heard of it.Get it. Read it. Enjoy!

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2. Clark is now 75? Ryan in his 4th term?
   I really liked this book and it was really well-researched. It’s hard to put it down once you get to the last 100 pages. Deep dive into culture and how the ChiComms subjugate ethnic groups and get away with it. Very real depiction and so believable. I’ll buy them as long as they produce them. However, as much Jack Ryan novels have been a part of my life for over 30 years, at some point his continuing on as POTUS (pre Smart phones) is starting to strain credulity. The books keep up with the tech but it has been many moons since he defeated Ed Kealty and lots has changed in the world. I believe I had my brand new IPhone 2 at that time. How much longer can Foley, Arnie, and the loyal crew go on? Clark is 75 now? Chavez is 50? Damn. They can work in a lot once Jack and Kathy are out of 1600. Challenges to the Campus. Jack actually going on missions. Jr getting involved in politics? It can go on forever. As much as I believe John Patrick. Ryan was the greatest POTUS who ever lived, all good things have to come to an end at some point.

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3. Excellent action adventure story
   This is a very good story that I had a hard time putting down. The bad guys were very bad, and the good guys were very good. I like the way the escapes were handled. The writing was excellent. I highly recommend this book and series.

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4. thrilling plot
   Loved the plot, lots of details and intrigue well written. Exciting reading, hard to put down. Giood geography lesson combining fiction and fact.

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5. The Campus ops go deep into China as a sub crisis looms in the Arctic
   This one has the Clancy formula, going all the way back to his earliest, par excellence.The story moves back and forth between the Arctic Ocean, where a stricken sub lies, and Western China, where the Campus ops search for a missing dissident who might lead them to a missing scientist.The story globe hops, with Interludes in Washington including White House deliberation and a CIA mole hunt; Vietnam where the story opens; and Albania of all places, where a CIA subplot evolves.It’s respectably high tech. The submarine parts of the story remind me of “The Hunt for Red October” where this delightful and enduring series began. The details about working underneath the Arctic ice cap, as China seeks more influence and access to its mineral riches, were fascinating.I always like it when a story focuses on John Clark, the now aging but still-has-it op, and gives him a chance to shine on his own. As the Campus’s head of ops, he rarely gets that chance: it’s for the younger guys. They’re younger, well trained, lethal and all that. But he still seems badder of ass.Here Clark operates in Western China in Uighur country, amid its genocidal repression by the CCP and Han Chinese. With its global surveillance it’s a challenging environment even for its own residents, let alone a Western spy sneaking around.Early in the book Clark’s sojourn in Vietnam reminds us that he’d been there before, in a very different era. That’s another thing I like about him: the bridge he represents to the Vietnam War and the Cold War, other eras in the nation’s national security history younger folks don’t recall.The end was clever. I initially didn’t see what had gone down, then belatedly realized, oh yeah. RIGHT.

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6. Good read
   Good

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7. Confusion and not really a Ryan book.
   Didn’t like much about it; not really a Jack Ryan story,Disappointed because most of the story had nothing to do with the sub.

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8. GREAT BOOK
   love the book

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9. As always. Good story told well and a credit to a very good writer makes you want to read more.

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10. Excellent thriller…as always….Good book up to date with a good storylineOut of China which is on the forefront of theTabloids

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11. Doesn’t go anywhere. Doesn’t develop a single character. Mechanical writing. The author has just churned out words like soggy noodles.

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12. Good entertaining story line.

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13. Weinig karakter ontwikkeling ( als ook in de vorige boeken – he blijft hopen.) Veel van hetzelfde. De helft van het boek beschrijft handelingen van bijfiguren.

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