Locked On (novel)
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| Author | Tom Clancy, with Mark Greaney |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Jack Ryan universe |
| Genre | Techno-thriller |
| Publisher | Putnam |
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2011 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 864pp |
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| OCLC | 776093541 |
| Preceded by | Dead or Alive |
| Followed by | Threat Vector |
Locked On is a political thriller novel by Tom Clancy and co-authored by Mark Greaney. It was published on December 13, 2011, alongside the unabridged audio book version, read by Lou Diamond Phillips. The novel follows on from 2010's Dead or Alive and is based approximately a year after the events of that novel.
Jack Ryan, Jr. and other members of "The Campus"—team leader and senior Campus staff member John Clark, Domingo Chavez, Dominic Caruso and Sam Driscoll—are sent to Paris to observe a cell of the "Umayyad Revolutionary Council" (URC) – the organisation commanded by "The Emir" – Saif Rahman Yasin, the leader of the URC (a fictionalized Osama bin Laden) captured by Jack and the Campus team in Dead or Alive, and to capture a middle-ranking URC terrorist – Hosni Iheb Rokki.
Junior ends up in the heart of the action; the original plan to kidnap Rokki, in the hopes of using him to locate URC operational commander Abdul bin Mohammed al Qahtani, falls apart when Junior identifies another group of URC operatives preparing to ambush and kill the team of French DCRI police, who have a surveillance operation monitoring Rokki as well – Junior is able to confirm this to Clark and the others at the last minute. The team end up preparing a rescue mission for the French police, but alongside their original objective to capture Rokki. Junior however discovers the URC team is personally led by al Qahtani himself, and so Clark orders the others to make intercepting al Qahtani the mission priority – in the end, the assassination attempt on the French is foiled, all URC operatives are killed (including al Qahtani – who is personally killed by Clark himself), with the exception of Rokki, who escapes in the chaos, and the Campus team makes its escape with minimal exposure – the most serious complication is, during the ensuing fight Clark is mildly injured with a gunshot wound (when the DCRI failed to differentiate between the Campus operatives and the URC cell).
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