American military fiction master Tom Clancy's work "Between Life and Death" was recently introduced and published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House. The book is a masterpiece by Tom Clancy that has been on the New York Times bestseller list for ten consecutive weeks since its publication, following the best-selling novel The Hunt for The Red October.
Tom Clancy (1947-2013) was an American military writer and the world's best-selling master of counterterrorism thriller novels. His novels are laid out in a vast and imposing manner, depicting military weapons, terrorist acts, national intelligence systems, and global strategic relations, and have a wide readership around the world; his masterpieces "Hunting the Red October", "Patriot Game", "Burning Eyebrows" and "Shocking Nuclear Network" have been successively put on the screen by Hollywood and sensationalized the world film industry. He is also actively involved in online game development, making him famous for series such as Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, and Cell Splinter.
American military writer Tom Clancy
No one questioned Tom Clancy's position as the number one IP in the international market. From the actual circulation of 2.3 million copies after the release of the first "Hunting for the Red October" in 1984, the box office of the series of film adaptations in the 90s exceeded 100 million, and the million-level sales of the game changed in the past ten years, to the 2018 Amazon blockbuster new drama "Jack Ryan", there is constantly fresh blood injected into the hard-core military universe created by Clancy, and the translation of the new "Operation "Red Storm" is to further complete the author's huge military territory in the book field.
The Jack Ryan series is the cornerstone of the Clancy Military Tower. "Between Life and Death" continues the series of novels such as "Patriot Game" and "Burning Pursuit" starring CIA agent Jack Ryan, and tells the story of a special counter-terrorism operation launched by Jack Ryan Jr., an intelligence expert who has become a companion with his father, and his team.
Secret intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. and his colleagues secretly carry out an unofficial but highly effective counterterrorism program. They targeted a group of terrorists who threatened Western civilization, the most ferocious of whom was a man named Emir. Cunning and cruel, Emile has planned many terrorist attacks behind the scenes, but has successfully escaped the arrest of world law enforcement agencies. Today, he has targeted terrorist attacks at the counterterrorism base where Jack works. Jack must be responsible for leading his two cousins and two new members to plan the arrest of Emile and carry out a counter-terrorism mission of wit and courage, and a life-and-death battle begins...
Zhang Zhaozhong, an international military expert, commented: "Tom Clancy's novel is a paramilitary textbook for the United States and an indispensable reference for today's world to deal with international terror. The Washington Daily, for its part, argues that Between Life and Death "has a tight plot and precise details that give people a terrifying sense of reality." Clancy successfully staged a cat-and-mouse game between submarines. ”