Locked On

A Jack Ryan Novel

By: Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney

Narrated by: Lou Diamond Phillips

Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

Jack Ryan Jr.--along with the covert warriors of the Campus--continues to uphold his legendary father’s legacy of courage and honor in this thriller from number one New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy.

Privately training with special forces, he’s honing his combat skills to continue his work within the Campus, hunting down and eliminating terrorists wherever he can--even as Jack Ryan Sr. campaigns to become President of the United States again.

But what neither father nor son knows is that the political and personal have just become equally dangerous. A devout enemy of Jack Sr. launches a privately-funded vendetta to discredit him and connect him to a mysterious killing in his longtime ally John Clark’s past. All they have to do is catch him.

With Clark on the run, it’s up to Jack Jr. to stop a growing threat emerging in the Middle East, where a corrupt Pakistani general has entered into a deadly pact with a fanatical terrorist to procure four nuclear warheads they can use to blackmail any world power into submission--or face annihilation.

©2011 Rubicon, Inc. (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Locked on

I adore listening to Lou Diamond Philips

Another great, breath-taking book

More! More! More! And WRITE ON!!

Bekki in Fort Myers

Too complicated for my listening pleasure.

Too convoluted, hard to follow. If it had been free I would have stopped listening. Disappointed with the cliff hanger at the end since I have no plans to purchase another.

Excellent!

Love how Mark Greaney picks up where Clancy left off. Great story! Good ol’ John Clark and Jack Ryan spy story.

Captivating

Thrilling on the edge of your seat action with plot twists and turns. Detailed story that you can almost see unfold in front of you. Great read.

Narrator review

Actor Lou Diamond Phillips is the best narrator I’ve listened to so far. He’s the reason I’ll be looking into other books he performs.
Thank you.
Phillip V.

One of his best

If you could sum up Locked On in three words, what would they be?

Typical spy thriller. Some of Clancy's books have too much going on. Too many people in too many places. Too many long Russian names. This book was easier to follow.

What did you like best about this story?

He wasn't all over the map. Easier to follow. I didn't but Teeth of the Tiger because I saw bad reviews, but I learned in this book that Jack Ryan's friend Jackson was assassinated. Now I'm tempted to buy that book to see what happened. I liked his character.

Have you listened to any of Lou Diamond Phillips’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes. His best so far. I think this is the third time I've heard him. I felt that he read too fast in his first one. He reads at a better pace in this book, and is getting better at changing his voice when different people are talking.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I listen to it longer than I should at night, and end up staying up too late. It's too much for one setting, but I probably listened to it 2 hours a night and some time during the day.

Good story, appalling accents

I enjoyed this story. A typical Tom Clancy story that follows his usual formula. However, it was let down by the narration. The guy's so called Welsh accent was a travesty. The nearest to any real accent was possibly Scots but that would probably not go down well with any Scotsman listening. All the other non-Americans had some weird generic 'foreign' accent. Whilst it meant you knew it wasn't an American character, it was grating and frankly detracted from the story.

A Lot of Detail

Enjoyable listen. The narrator was surprisingly good at the various characters. Admittedly, I got lost in the details and I lost track of some of the character's. Nevertheless I was able to keep track of the storyline and I was anxious to hear the outcome.

Good book again for Tho Clancy

Narrator was very good which makes this book hard to stop listening to it.

Lazy writing

The story, of it was a stand-alone, would be great. But as part of the Jack Ryan series, I felt that it was lazy writing. Two particular errors really got on my nerves.
1. Having helped saved Russia from the Chinese invasion less than 8 years prior, I’m supposed to believe that Russia is now anti-Jack Ryan Sr? No explanation was given for this. No mention of Golovko or General Bodarenko or anything. It made no sense to me at all.
2. I believe in the book Sum of All Fears, Ryan took over as DDI of the CIA when the first DDI, Charles Alden died after his affair and pregnant lover were exposed in the media. He died of a massive stroke. And here we have a man with the same name in the CIA administration.
A few sentences of explanation would have solved the Russian issue and a name change would have solved the second. But the author, proofreader, editor, no one caught any of it. As a diehard Clancy Fan, especially of Jack Ryan, it just drove me nuts!