Tom Clancy
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Series
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English
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For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn.
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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It is 1999. The sudden death of Russia's president has thrown the Russian Federation into chaos. Devastating crop failures have left millions in the grip of famine, and an uprising seems inevitable.
One of Russia's provisional leaders asks the American president for help. But the whole world is watching when a deadly terrorist attack stuns the United States and evidence points to the Russian government.
Amidst the turmoil in Russia, American
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision: the Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on.--Amazon.com.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Jack Ryan, Jr. and his Campus colleagues John Clark and Ding Chavez, go after a vicious terrorist mastermind--the Emir--and they will bring him in ... dead or alive.
After almost a decade, Tom Clancy -- the acknowledged master of international intrigue and non-stop military action-returns to the world he knows better than anyone: a world of chaos, caught in the crossfire of politics and power, placed on the edge of annihilation by evil men. But...
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Jack Ryan volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 31
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
While vacationing in London, CIA analyst Jack Ryan saves the Prince and Princess of Wales from a terrorist attack and gains the gratitude of a nation and the enmity of its most dangerous ment.
6) Red rabbit
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Jack Ryan volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
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English
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In a lethal game of cat-and-mouse that is the Soviet Union versus the United States, the Pope's life is in danger, as is the stability of the Western world. Jack Ryan is at the center of the action, but it may already be too late for a novice CIA analyst to do anything about the conflict. This is Clancy at his best--and there is none better.
7) Locked on
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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"Jack Ryan Jr. is training with a Special Forces drill instructor to transition his work with in the campus from intelligence analysis to eliminating terrorists - even as Jack Ryan Sr. campaigns for re-election as President. But the political and personal have become equally dangerous. A devout enemy for Jack Sr. is attempting to discredit him by connecting Jack Sr. to a mysterious killing in the past by John Clark, his long time ally. A shadow mercenary...
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Jack Ryan volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 34
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English
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"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author and master of the technothriller returns with his All-Star team. There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan"--
Decades ago, when he was a young CIA analyst, President Jack Ryan, Sr. was sent on what was supposed to be a simple support mission to investigate...
11) Debt of honor
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Jack Ryan novel volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 58
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English
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Razio Yamata is one of Japan's most influential industrialists, and part of a relatively small group of authority who wield tremendous authority in the Pacific Rim's economic powerhouse. He has devised a plan to cripple the American greatness, humble the US military, and elevate Japan to a position of dominance on the world stage. Yamata's motivation lies in his desire to pay off a Debt of Honor to his parents and to the country he feels is responsible...
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Jack Ryan volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 53
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English
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Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East?as Deputy Director of the CIA Jack Ryan lays the groundwork for a peace plan that could end centuries of conflict. But ruthless terrorists have a final, desperate card to play: they have their hands on a nuclear weapon and have placed it on American soil in the midst of an escalation in tension with the Soviet Union. The terrorists hope to rekindle cold war animosity and prevent reconciliation between...
13) Rainbow Six
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 51
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English
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Number-one bestselling author Tom Clancy goes beyond anything he has done before in Rainbow Six. It is his most shocking story to date -- and closer to reality than any government would care to admit. At its heart is ex-Navy SEAL John Clark, now the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, Clark is confronted with a violent chain of seemingly separate international incidents. But...
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Jack Ryan volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 66
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
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Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President hasn't gotten any easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn, the Asian economy is going down the tubes, and in Moscow, someone may have tried to take-out the chairman of the SVR-the former KGB-with a rocket-propelled grenade.
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Jack Ryan volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 44
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
When Colombian drug lords assassinate both the U.S. ambassador and the visiting head of the FBI, their actions trigger a covert response from the American government-- a response that goes horribly wrong... As the newly named Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA, Jack Ryan should be privy to operations like the one in Colombia, but he's been left completely in the dark. With the help of field officer John Clark, Ryan intends to find out what's...
16) Executive orders
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Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
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English
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After an airliner crashes into the Capitol, killing the president, Jack Ryan, the vice-president takes over. The novel describes Ryan's campaign to impose a right-wing morality on the U.S. and a new order on the world, the latter accomplished with the aid of high-tech warfare. A sequel to Debt of Honor. Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence....
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Jack Ryan Books volume 12
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
In a nondescript office building in suburban Maryland, the firm Hendley Associates does a profitable business in stocks, bonds, and international currencies, but its true mission is quite different: to identify and locate terrorist threats, and then deal with them, in whatever manner necessary. Established with the knowledge of President John Patrick Ryan, "the Campus" is always on the lookout for promising new talent, its recruiters scattered throughout...
19) Red storm rising
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 43
Language
English
Description
When Moslem fundamentalists destroy a key Soviet oil complex, the Russians initiate a plan of diplomatic trickery for their seizure of Persian Gulf oil.
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Op-Center volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Driven by greed, a group of U.N. peacekeeping soldiers becomes involved in activities on the wrong side of the law. When their tour of duty ends, the mayhem begins. The rogue soldiers - outfitted with stolen U.N. arms and ammunition devise a shocking scheme to get the world's attention. Meanwhile, Op-Center head Paul Hood has cleared out his desk. But his retirement is short-lived. Demanding one hundred million dollars in ransom, the assassins have...