Tom Clancy
Author
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...
Author
Series
Jack Ryan novel volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 58
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 53
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 66
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
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...
Author
Series
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...
8) Rainbow Six
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 51
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
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....
10) Red storm rising
Author
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
Description
A non-fiction analysis of the Persian Gulf War and the nature of war and command as seen through the actions of General Frederick M. Franks, Jr., commander of the armor and infantry of VII Corps.
Provides an inside look at the career of General Fred Franks, one of the leading American military commanders during the Gulf War, and discusses the transformations he observed in the United States Army in the years between the Vietnam War and the conflict...
Author
Series
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...
13) Mirror image
Author
Series
Op-center volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The Op-Center's crisis management team faces a new challenge when the Russian mafia and ultra-nationalists create their own mirror image op-center committed to toppling Russia's fledgling democracy.--
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
China has invaded the oil-rich Spratly Islands. The American response has been swift and deadly, resulting in the start of World War III. SSN: Strategies of Submarine Warfare presents 15 thrilling scenarios--fact-based mission profiles for Captain Bartholomew Mackenzie and the crew of the nuclear submarine the U.S.S. Cheyenne--stirring plots and characters, perfectly accurate details, and the chilling knowledge that these events could really happen....
15) Battle ready
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
In his first three Commanders books, Tom Clancy teamed with Generals Fred Franks, Jr., Chuck Horner, and Carl Stiner to provide masterful blends of history, biography, you-are-there narrative, insight into the practice of leadership, and plain, old-fashioned storytelling. Battle Ready is all of that--and it is also something more. Marine General Tony Zinni was known as the "Warrior Diplomat" during his nearly forty years of service. As a soldier,...
Author
Series
Power Plays volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Net force volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBP the Net Force. When web service is disrupted across the world, a new nation makes its presence known. Terrorists from a virtual country called CyberNation have taken the web hostage. Their demands: worldwide recognition and rights for their "citizens." Though there...