Tom Clancy - [Jack Ryan 11] The Bear & the Dragon

A CLASH OF WORLD POWER. A PRESIDENT'S TRIAL BY FIRE ...

PRESIDENT JACK RYAN FACES A WORLD CRISIS UNLIKE ANY HE HAS EVER KNOWN, IN TOM CLANCY'S EXTRAORDINARY NEW NOVEL ...

A high-level assassination attempt in Russia has the newly elected Ryan sending his most trusted eyes and ears --- including anti-terrorism specialist John Clark --- to Moscow, for he fears the worst is yet to come. And he's right. The attempt has left the already unstable Russia vulnerable to ambitious forces in China eager to fulfill their destiny --- and change the face of the world as we know it ..

Being President, Jack Ryan discovers, doesn't get any easier, particularly not when domestic pitfalls await him at every turn and in Moscow someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR (formerly the KGB) with a rocket-propelled grenade. Who were the potential assassins - were they Russian mafia, disaffected former KGB or something far more dangerous? Even while Ryan dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears to find out the truth, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of audacious proportions. If they succeed, the world will never look the same. If they fail... the consequences will be unspeakable.