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Violence
A lot
Terrorist attacks and counter-terrorism violence throughout; Clancy's realistic military register
Language
Some
Some profanity throughout
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief sexual content in the adult thriller register
Substance Use
None
Moderate drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate: the threat to Ryan's family and the IRA's professional menace create sustained tension
What this book is about
CIA analyst Jack Ryan, in London with his family, witnesses an IRA terrorist attack against members of the Royal Family and intervenes — inadvertently becoming a target for an IRA splinter group. The thriller follows Ryan and his family's danger as the splinter group pursues them back to America. Clancy's Jack Ryan prequel (chronologically) is well-paced thriller fiction with his signature military detail and procedural accuracy.
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