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Language English Publication date July 22, 2014 ISBN 978-0-399-17334-9 | 4.1/5 Goodreads Publisher Putnam Adult Media type Print (hardback) Originally published 22 July 2014 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages 512 pp (hardback edition) Preceded by Command Authority, Full Force and Effect Followed by Full Force and Effect, Tom Clancy Under Fire: A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel Genres Political fiction, Political thriller, Techno-thriller Similar Mark Greaney books, Jack Ryan - Jr series books, Techno-thriller books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Support and Defend is a political thriller novel in the Tom Clancy universe by Mark Greaney published on July 22, 2014 by Putnam Adult.
Plot summary
After a terrorist attack on a former Israeli commando, Dominic Caruso, the nephew of President Jack Ryan is on a mission to find the man who is responsible for the death of a friend. The trail leads him to White House Staffer, Ethan Ross. Ross has enough information to destroy the U.S.'s intelligence effort. Declared FBI most wanted he flees with operatives Venezuela's General Counterintelligence Office. Caruso is on the trail, but Iranian Quds Force assassins, Hezbollah terrorists and the Russians are not far behind. This hunt takes him from the Georgetown neighborhood to an island in Panama to the snowy Alps in Europe.