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Tom Clancy's Duty and Honour
Tom Clancy's Duty and Honour
Oct 21, 2024 4:03 AM

Author:Grant Blackwood

Tom Clancy's Duty and Honour

INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN . . .

**'Exhilarating. No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict' Sunday Times**

Someone wants Jack Ryan Dead - and fast...

Covert operative Jack Ryan Jr is enjoying some well-earned R&R when an attempt is made on his life. He survives, only to learn that another attempt on his life is imminent.

Having barely survived the first time, Jack sets out to find out who wants him dead, and why...

Using clues left by his would-be assassin, Jack follows a trail that leads through France and Switzerland to Rostock, a shadowy security firm based in Germany. Jack knows its head, Jurgen Rostock, from a previous operation - one that has apparently drawn the man's fury.

Without the resources of The Campus - the elite agency from which he is on a leave-of-absence - but with the help of an investigative journalist, Jack embarks on his own secret campaign to uncover the truth about Rostock. And what he finds is that they are up to something both big and very, very bad.

But what can one man do against all Rostock's might?

The world is about to find out.

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—— New York Times

Heart-stopping action ... entertaining and eminently topical

—— Washington Post

Exhilarating. No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict

—— Sunday Times

A virtuoso display of page-turning talent

—— Sunday Express

The rising star of British crime

—— Tony Parsons , Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of the DC Max Wolfe series

I couldn't put it down

—— Sun

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—— Guardian

The writing is beautiful and the plot so cleverly constructed I never guessed any of the twists

—— Claire Douglas , Sunday Times bestselling author of Local Girl Missing

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—— Guardian

Terrific

—— Sunday Times

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—— Liz Nugent , Sunday Times bestselling author of Lying in Wait

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—— Financial Times

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—— Crime Fiction Lover

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Twisty, emotional and addictive

—— The Sun

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—— People

Full of suspense

—— Yours Magazine

A historical episode artfully adapted in a tale that offers glimmers of hope for women discarded by society

—— Kirkus

Wonderful, evocative, moving and suspenseful

—— Marika Cobbold , author of On Hampstead Heath

A vivid, cleverly-crafted mystery that will keep the reader turning the pages

—— Erica James , bestselling author of Letters from the Past

It's a fantastically exciting story, and a wonderful novel. There is so much more going on, on the Rajah, in this unity of women, than a simple love story

—— Antonia Honeywell

Transforms an actual 19th-century sea voyage of female convicts into a striking drama. The ship's young matron chooses a group to sew a presentation quilt, but near their destination, someone stabs one of the quilters. Evocative sketches of those on board reveal the realities of poor women's lives - readers will be rewarded

—— Publisher's Weekly

A murder mystery with a great twist at the end . . . Gripping

—— i

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—— Wendy Cope

An enthralling narrative . . . lays bare the painful lives of these women, far from their homes and loved ones, and feeling the brutal weight of the law

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—— Best

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—— Jewish Chronicle

In vivid detail, Hope Adams illuminates life in convict quarters on a stinking, storm-soaked ship, and delves into the lives of individual women and the small tragedies that have condemned them to be sent far away, with little hope of return

—— Jewish Chronicle

A well-paced page-turner illuminating a forgotten story that reminds us how far we have come

—— Jewish Chronicle

Pulls you into the heart of its story, while celebrating redemption, rehabilitation and the good in people. All set to the backdrop of a truly fascinating slice of history

—— Phase Eight Book Club

Historical events and characters are cleverly blended into a thought-provoking tale

—— Candis

Adams disguises a social-history lesson on women's rights as a gripping period drama

—— Cosmopolitan
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