Maden Mike - Tom Clancy Firing Point

ALSO BY TOM CLANCY

FICTION

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Red Storm Rising

Patriot Games

The Cardinal of the Kremlin

Clear and Present Danger

The Sum of All Fears

Without Remorse

Debt of Honor

Executive Orders

Rainbow Six

The Bear and the Dragon

Red Rabbit

The Teeth of the Tiger

Dead or Alive (with Grant Blackwood)

Against All Enemies (with Peter Telep)

Locked On (with Mark Greaney)

Threat Vector (with Mark Greaney)

Command Authority (with Mark Greaney)

Tom Clancy Support and Defend (by Mark Greaney)

Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect (by Mark Greaney)

Tom Clancy Under Fire (by Grant Blackwood)

Tom Clancy Commander in Chief (by Mark Greaney)

Tom Clancy Duty and Honor (by Grant Blackwood)

Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance (by Mark Greaney)

Tom Clancy Point of Contact (by Mike Maden)

Tom Clancy Power and Empire (by Marc Cameron)

Tom Clancy Line of Sight (by Mike Maden)

Tom Clancy Oath of Office (by Marc Cameron)

Tom Clancy Enemy Contact (by Mike Maden)

Tom Clancy Code of Honor (by Marc Cameron)

NONFICTION

Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship

Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment

Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing

Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit

Airborne: A Guided Tour of an Airborne Task Force

Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier

Into the Storm: A Study in Command

with General Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.), and Tony Koltz

Every Man a Tiger: The Gulf War Air Campaign

with General Chuck Horner (Ret.) and Tony Koltz

Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces

with General Carl Stiner (Ret.) and Tony Koltz

Battle Ready with General Tony Zinni (Ret.) and Tony Koltz

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Names: Maden, Mike, author.

Title: Tom Clancy firing point / Mike Maden.

Other titles: Firing point

Description: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2020. | Series: Jack Ryan Jr.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020013908 (print) | LCCN 2020013909 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593188064 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593188088 (ebook)

Subjects: GSAFD: Spy stories. | Suspense fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3613.A284327 T62 2020 (print) | LCC PS3613.A284327

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CONTENTS

Cover

Also by Tom Clancy

Title Page

Copyright

Epigraph

Principal Characters

Prologue

October 18

Chapter 1

October 24

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

October 25

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

October 26

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

October 27

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

October 28

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

October 29

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

October 30

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Chapter 63

Chapter 64

Chapter 65

Chapter 66

Chapter 67

Chapter 68

Chapter 69

Days Later

Chapter 70

Chapter 71

Epilogue

About the Authors

In valor, there is hope.

—TACITUS

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

JACK RYAN:President of the United States

MARY PAT FOLEY:Director of national intelligence

ARNOLD “ARNIE” VAN DAMM:President Ryan’s chief of staff

SCOTT ADLER:Secretary of state

ADMIRAL JOHN TALBOT:Chief of naval operations

DICK DELLINGER:U.S. Consulate (Barcelona, Spain), Public Diplomacy Section

THE CAMPUS

JACK RYAN, JR.:Operations officer/senior analyst

GAVIN BIERY:Director of information technology

GERRY HENDLEY:Director of The Campus and Hendley Associates

JOHN CLARK:Director of operations

DOMINGO “DING” CHAVEZ:Assistant director of operations

DOMINIC “DOM” CARUSO:Operations officer

ADARA SHERMAN:Operations officer

BARTOSZ “MIDAS” JANKOWSKI:Operations officer

OTHER CHARACTERS

UNITED STATES

BUCK LOGAN:President, White Mountain Logistics + Security

KATE PARSONS:Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist

SPAIN

LAIA BROSSA:Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) agent

GASPAR PEÑA:CNI supervisor

PROLOGUE

POHANG, SOUTH KOREA

“Alive, not dead.”

That was the order. Jack got it. Rijk van Delden—if that was his real name—was the only link between the Iron Syndicate and the nameless merc outfit the syndicate hired for their dirtiest hits. The merc outfit was their real target. Find van Delden, find the outfit.

Simple as that.

But van Delden had been hard as hell to find. Impossible, actually. Until a lead, finally, that led them here tonight. Their one and maybe only chance to grab him.

“Alive, not dead” meant keeping the big Dutchman alive so they could find and eliminate his murderous organization.

The only problem with that was van Delden was one of his outfit’s heavy hitters. The six-foot-six killer possessed serious combative and tactical skills. The giant Dutchman had put more men in the ground than a gravedigger’s shovel.