Unabridged.
Read by John Telfer.
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Showing posts with label Tom. Show all posts
Sunday, 9 June 2013
Tom-All-Alone’s – Lynn Shepherd
Unabridged.
Read by John Telfer.
Friday, 22 March 2013
The Cardinal of the Kremlin – Tom Clancy
Sunday, 13 January 2013
Goodnight, Mister Tom [BBC Radio] – Michelle Magorian
Goodnight Mister Tom is a children’s novel by English author Michelle Magorian, published by Kestrel in 1981. Harper & Row published a U.S. edition within the calendar year. Set in England during World War II, it features a boy abused at home in London who is evacuated to the country during the Battle of Britain. In the care of Mister Tom, an elderly recluse, he experiences a new life of loving and care. Radio Adaptation.
Saturday, 24 November 2012
The Sum of All Fears - Tom Clancy
The Sum of All Fears represents a transition in the series, as Ryan goes from mid-level CIA employee struggling against bureaucracy to an executive capable of making actual policy. As Ryan moves up the chain of command, The Sum of All Fears raises the stakes by actually depicting a nuclear attack against the United States. I enjoyed the minor political conspiracy, the action courtesy of John Clark and the possible war that only Ryan could prevent. The Sum of All Fears may have been Clancy’s most complete novel, bringing together all of the elements that make his stories so enjoyable. My one complaint is that Ryan’s plan for middle east peace was one of the stupidest, least plausible things ever put forth in a Clancy novel (and that’s saying something).
Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy
Beyond providing the introduction of Ding Chavez and the first extended appearance of John Clark, Clear and Present Danger showed that Clancy is capable of dealing with difficult ethical questions. While some of his later books seem to justify illegal covert operations, in Clear and Present Danger, he demonstrates how dangerous it can be when the intelligence agencies operate without oversight. On top of that, the book has a great spy story as covert teams take down the drug cartels and Ryan tries to uncover who is behind the operation.
Cardinal and the Kremlin - Tom Clancy
The book begins at a diplomatic conference in Moscow attended by Jack Ryan, a rising CIA analyst and part of the American delegation to the Soviet Union. It is revealed that the CIA’s most highly-placed agent, codenamed CARDINAL, is none other than one Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich Filitov: the personal aide to the Soviet Minister of Defense and a national war hero. (This persona may have been based on Ryszard Kukliński, a Polish agent for the CIA, or on Dmitri Polyakov, a Russian CIA spy executed in 1988 following betrayal by Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames.) Filitov had won three Hero of the Soviet Union medals over the course of his career, most notably at the Battle of Stalingrad. He was recruited by GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence) Colonel Oleg Penkovskiy, a British agent; he offered his services to the CIA after his wife and two sons died. The two sons died as a result of service in the Red Army, the youngest in a training accident, and the eldest during the Hungarian Uprising. As a result, Filitov began passing political, technical, and military intelligence for the CIA; This operation continued for over thirty years until the start of the book.
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