Plot summary
Jack Ryan, Jr. leads a surveillance operation in Regensburg, Germany with Campus operative Lisanne Robertson and asset Isabel Yang, as Green Beret snipers Cary Marks and Jad Mustafa provide overwatch. They witness a rendition of Chinese expatriate Wang Lei by MSS operatives, whom Ryan and the Green Berets unsuccessfully try to apprehend.
Ryan finds out that Lei’s brother, scientist Zhang Wei, is also in Regensburg, and asks Campus operations director John Clark for authorization to initiate contact. Clark tasks him to go to Manila, Philippines to recover a Chinese undersea glider, but Ryan goes ahead with meeting Wei, who is killed by a Chinese sniper. Leaving Lisanne and Yang and fearful about being followed by the MSS, the three proceed to Salzburg, Austria and take separate flights to Manila, where they meet Clark, Campus assistant operations director Domingo “Ding” Chavez, and operative Dominic “Dom” Caruso.
Clark and Chavez meet with Filipino banker Mario Reyes in a warehouse at the Navotas fish port to retrieve the glider, as Caruso, Ryan, and the Green Berets provide overwatch. They are attacked by Chinese mercenaries also after the glider, ending in an explosion that injures Chavez and Caruso as they kidnap Clark. The leader of the mercenaries, Fen Li, had been hunting for Ryan since his intervention at the MSS’s attempted assassination of scientist Dr. Rebecka Schweigart. [a] Ryan informs director of national intelligence Mary Pat Foley, who sends a CIA extraction team for Chavez and Caruso and tells Ryan’s father, U.S. President Jack Ryan. He orders The Campus to be integrated into the U.S. intelligence community as they work to rescue Clark, who had been tortured by Abu Sayyaf pirates working with Fen.
Meanwhile, a P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft crashes into the South China Sea after colliding with a Chinese J-16 fighter plane. President Ryan instructs the Virginia-class attack submarine USS Delaware to rescue its crew, evading a Chinese Type 054A frigate after a tense standoff. As other Chinese frigates gather near Taiwan after having failed to capture the P-8’s crew, Foley discovers the maneuver as a diversion; Fen and her mercenaries had also staked a claim on a deposit of polymetallic nodules along the Paracel Islands. She relays this information to President Ryan, who informs Chinese President Chen; the latter agrees to turn back the Chinese frigates and assist in rescuing Clark.
After unsuccessfully using the glider to locate Clark, Ryan and the Green Berets pinpoint his location to a Vietnamese trawler at South China Sea. With Mario piloting the seaplane, Ryan dispatches the Abu Sayyaf pirates and rescues Clark from being hanged by Fen, whom he shoots dead. They escape the trawler as it is engulfed by flames. Chavez and Caruso later recover. Ryan proposes to Lisanne, who accepts.
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