Against All Enemies

De: Tom Clancy, Peter Telep

Narrado por: Steven Weber

For years, ex–Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America’s enemies at every turn. And then...news of a potentially devastating coalition: What if two of the greatest threats to the security of the United States were to form an unholy alliance? The Taliban is trying to exploit a Mexican drug cartel to which they supply opium as a means to bring the fire of jihad to the hearts of the infidels. It is up to Moore, and his team, to infiltrate and dismantle the drug cartel, even as they hunt for those who would bring the ultimate terror and destruction to the streets of America.In a story that races from the remote, war-scarred landscapes of the Middle East to the blood-soaked chaos of the U.S.–Mexico border, Tom Clancy once again delivers a heart-stopping thriller that is frighteningly close to reality.

©2011 Tom Clancy (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Enjoyable Listening

Listened to this book at work, it seemed to start slowly but eventually I was looking forward to getting further into it. Doesnt seem to drag out like some books that are this long. I would recommend it if you are fan of Clancy.

great story, great narrator

I always loved Clancy storage, hopefully they can interweave Moore's character into the overall Jack Ryan universe.

Very hard to follow

Too hard to follow the story and characters. Never knew who was who or what was happening.

Didn’t feel like a true Clancy. It was fine.

I opinion is that there were too many characters. Perhaps it was because it was audible app, or see all the names written out.

A good listen but not Clancy/Telep's finest hour.

This book has recieved some pretty negative reviews, mainly due to the apparent shift from Clancy's authorship, but also in part due to another type of story. Whereas in the past the focus of the action has been on the political interplay between organisations of the military industrial system,(with the possible exception of R6 and Without Remorse) this novel focuses on speculation of what a JTF would face if it were played off against a cartel.

This speculation is inherently weakened by the lack of political motivators for the storyline ( by which I mean the characters unquestioningly following orders to protect the country, and everyone is always on side in the chain of bureaucracy). This causes the flow to be unbroken, with no spectacular twists, divergent goals, nor character motivators for emotional connection to the reader... with the exception of the main character.

An example of this is that when a secondary character on the good guys team dies, there is little emotional attachment as there was when the Caruso twin's lost Brian, or when Rainbow was ambushed in R6, etc, etc.

In spite of these inherent story weaknesses, there is a good storyline spinning from the "What if" scenario's developed in the book, and if you give it a chance, and are willing to sit through the seemingly interminable introductory hour and a half of unrelated action and flashbacks of a new character, you will eventually be rewarded by some easter-eggs related to the main Jack Ryan chain of books.

SO... all in all, a good listen, but not Clancy/Telep's finest hour.