If there is an author where politics, espionage and the great international conspiracies take shape as a whole, that is Tom Clancy. To read Tom is to sit in one of those offices from which the world is ruled. An invitation to conspiracy with the corresponding military command while coordinating the spy services on the other hand.
The world always on the tightrope, the consequent political tensions resulting from the confrontation of geostrategic interests of the states, with its most perverse version, the one that awakens us the sensation of chance and whim in a possible end of the warlike world dictated by a insane with a red button near him.
Almost all Tom Clancy novels They offer a similar structure, but at the same time they are all different. Hence its great success for so many years. And in that arduous task that I always impose on myself to point out the three best novels From each author, those highly recommended reading books, it is up to Mr. Clancy.
Top 3 recommended books by Tom Clancy
Patriot game
"Game," that is the key notion, because Jack Ryan will be immersed in an insane game, the manhunt. Being in the most inopportune place at the most inappropriate moment is something very common in many novels and even in the cinema.
But it is a starting point that never wears off. Starting from a normal situation and suddenly everything blows up… Jack Ryan, historian, ex-Marine and CIA expert, is spending a short vacation in London with his wife and little daughter.
Accidentally, he is involved in a terrorist attack, which he manages to frustrate although he is injured. He has saved the lives of the princes of Wales, but from now on he will have implacable enemies: an ultra-left split in the IRA that, determined to take revenge at all costs, will lead him and his family to the most extreme situations. This novel was taken to the cinema with great success, with Harrison Ford in the role of Jack Ryan, initiating a series that enjoyed the favor of the public.
Op-center: acts of war
The theme of the Middle East as an argument for a war or espionage novel is an argument that gains credibility and that contributes that point of unease, given the perpetual state of conflict in this region in reality.
Kurdish terrorists attack a dam, endangering Turkey's water supply. It is the first step in a plan to unleash the war in the Middle East in which the main protagonists of the new world order will be involved.
The rebels will have to face, however, an enemy they did not have: the COR, the new mobile base of the Operations Center located in Turkish territory and which, thanks to a state-of-the-art computer system, has access to classified information of vital importance. .
But also the Kurds, contrary to what was believed, are endowed with sufficient means to counteract the actions of the COR members. The fight is served and the duel of computer titans guaranteed.
Alive or dead
Islamic terrorism, in the hands of Clancy, is presented in an ideal theme for a game of espionage and intelligence. When the CIA cannot respond to the threat of international terrorism, Campus comes into play, a secret organization created by former President Jack Ryan with its own funds. Its main objective is the Emir, the mastermind of 11/XNUMX, who is preparing to carry out new attacks on North American territory.
While the Campus agents try to discover his whereabouts, Jack Ryan decides to leave his retirement to fight for the presidency of the country. In 1984, with The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy introduced the first in a series of tecnothrillers that have sold millions of copies. In 1994, with Debt of honor, he predicted 11/747 by telling how a XNUMX would crash into the Capitol.
And now, with Dead or Alive, he has broken a long silence to tell us how the fight against terrorism is going. This book is an adrenaline rush: Tom Clancy at its purest.
