Support and Defend
Author | Mark Greaney | |
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Audio read by | Scott Brick | |
Country | United States | |
Language | English | |
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Publisher | ISBN 9780425279229 | |
Support and Defend (stylized as Tom Clancy Support and Defend, Tom Clancy: Support and Defend, or Tom Clancy’s Support and Defend in the
In the novel, Caruso must stop a seemingly rogue
Plot summary
Dominic “Dom” Caruso is in India, training with former Israeli commando Arik Yacoby on a six-week training program in Krav Maga. One night, the Yacoby family are attacked in a home invasion, which ends with one of the intruders detonating a suicide vest, killing the whole family and injuring Caruso. It was later revealed that the attack on Yacoby was the result of a recent data breach in the National Security Council (NSC), which staffer Ethan Ross inadvertently set into motion when he took top secret files and shared them with an international whistleblowing organization called the International Transparency Project (ITP).
After the attack, the NSC schedules a lie detector test, which leads Ross to panic. He was then asked by ITP head Gianni Bertoli to scrape the government’s servers for classified data and store them in a flash drive as insurance in case the techniques for “beating the polygraph” does not work. Unbeknownst to them, the flash drive was provided by Iranian agent Mohammed Mobasheri, who had infiltrated ITP. Meanwhile, Caruso acquires help from David, a Mossad agent who was also investigating Yacoby’s death.
When the lie detector test does not work, Ethan is forced to flee the country with the flash drive by offering classified intelligence to Venezuela in exchange for safe passage. He was then kept in a safe house in Panama; Caruso finds this out from David. His boss from The Campus, Gerry Hendley, sends director of transportation Adara Sherman to accompany him in surveilling the safehouse. However, the Russian government had taken interest in Ross through their connections in Venezuela, and try to snatch him. Caruso and Sherman dispatch the GRU forces, but Ross, Bertoli and Mobasheri escape.
With David’s help, Caruso learns that Ross is on
Caruso sees Ross being tortured by Mobasheri for the password to the data scrape. Outnumbered, he decides to kill him using a sniper rifle; the Iranian and his henchmen later flee the scene with the flash drive. Caruso manages to contact the local
Characters
- Dominic Caruso: Operative, The Campus
- Ethan Ross: Deputy assistant director for Near East and North African affairs, National Security Council
- Eve Pang: Computer network systems engineer, Ross's girlfriend
- Darren Albright: Supervisory special agent, FBI Counterintelligence Division
- Nolan and Beale: Investigative specialists, FBI Special Surveillance Group
- Adara Sherman: Director of transportation, The Campus
- Harlan Banfield: Journalist, member of the International Transparency Project
- Gianni Bertoli: Director, International Transparency Project
- Mohammed Mobasheri: Iranian Revolutionary Guard
- Kashan, Shiraz, Isfahan, and Ormand: Operatives, Quds Force
- Arturo: Venezuelan General Intelligence officer
- Leo: Venezuelan General Intelligence officer
- Rigoberto Finn: Polygraph examiner, FBI
- Gerry Hendley: Director, The Campus/Hendley Associates
- Arik Yacoby: Former operative, Shayetet 13, Israeli naval Special Forces
- David: Israeli intelligence agent
- Phillip McKell: Computer network expert
Development
On October 1, 2013, author and creator of the Jack Ryan series Tom Clancy died.[3] His last novel, co-authored with Mark Greaney, Command Authority, was published posthumously on December 3, 2013.[4]
In keeping with the tradition of developing franchises from bestselling novelists like
Reception
Commercial
Support and Defend debuted at number three on the Hardcover Fiction category of
Less than a year later, the paperback edition of the book peaked at number five on the Paperback Fiction category of the New York Times bestseller list.[9]
Critical
The book received generally positive reviews. Publishers Weekly noted that "Clancy readers will hardly notice that Tom is no longer with us."[10] Kirkus Reviews praised the book as "another timely, techno-geeky thriller" and added that "It’s by-the-numbers stuff, with the requisite villainy, continent-hopping, décolletage, neat tools and cliffhangers. But, of course, that’s just what Clancy’s fans read him for, and Greaney carries on that entertaining tradition seamlessly."[11]
References
- ^ Tom Clancy's Support and Defend. ASIN 1405919299.
- ^ "Hardcover Fiction Books - Best Sellers - August 10, 2014 - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
- ^ Bosman, Julie (2 October 2013). "Tom Clancy, Best-Selling Master of Military Thrillers, Dies at 66". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
- ISBN 0399160477.
- ^ Gardner, Eriq (29 August 2017). "Tom Clancy's Widow Aims to Win Jack Ryan Character Rights in Lawsuit". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
- ^ Minzesheimer, Bob (July 31, 2014). "Book Buzz: Tom Clancy lives on in new thriller". USA Today. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
- ^ "Combined Print & E-Book Fiction Books - Best Sellers - August 10, 2014 - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
- ^ "Book Reviews and Best Selling Lists". USA Today. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
- ^ "Paperback Mass-Market Fiction Books - Best Sellers - April 26, 2015 - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
- ^ "Fiction Book Review: Tom Clancy Support and Defend: A Campus Novel by Mark Greaney". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
- ^ "TOM CLANCY SUPPORT AND DEFEND by Mark Greaney". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 3 July 2018.