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.

confusing but good.

confusing so many names and people but ended fine. narration fair. ending needed improvement, but I know it carries over in next book.

Not an easy read.

I had a tough time with the book. It was boring. Won't read it again.

Great Listen

Intense, story keeps moving. Fun with a surprise ending.
Want to hear more about same characters.

chaplaincy at his best!

exhilarating and interesting as usual! this author never lets you down. great plot, performance was excellent, and overall a top read.

OUTSTANDING NARRATION - AMAZING

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I would never have guessed that Lou Diamond Phillips would be as great of a narrator as he is. I mean, he's an actor! I even looked for previous narrators of this series, whom I liked, and was disappointed that my only choice was LDP. Boy, am I glad that this was the case. He had a variety of voices, inflections, and personalities for each character in the book, and he had NO problem in any pronunciation. And there are a LOT of foreign names of people and countries. I want to read more books with LDP as the narrator!

What was one of the most memorable moments of Locked On?

The story escalates as it goes on, so that by the end chapters, you don't want to do anything else except finish the story...

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

no

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Jack Ryan, Jr.; Locked On

Any additional comments?

Great narration, better than average story, but you can tell that Tom Clancy did not have a lot to do with this story beyond creating the characters.

Waiting for next one

Lives up to the Clancy tradition. This book was easy to listen to and not need a flow chart of characters to keep track of like his earlier books. Phillips was able to execute the foreign names and places flawlessly like having lived there. Overall a captivating book that you hated to see the fast paced end come to and as usual leaves you anxiously waiting for the next one.

Well written and captivating

What did you love best about Locked On?

It was in keeping with Clancy's high standards of providing factual detail without becoming stale.

Typical Tom

What made the experience of listening to Locked On the most enjoyable?

The twists and turns of the plots along with the action sequences described with brutal clarity.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

Absolutely. The plot, like all of Tom Clancy's novels keeps me wanting to know what happened next to the point that I would find myself siting in my car in the driveway of my hose listening to the next chapter after I'd get home from work.

Which character – as performed by Lou Diamond Phillips – was your favorite?

Damingo Chavez

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

Yes.

Another nail biter

I really do enjoy the jack ryan series and Locked On did not disappoint. Both the story line and reader made listening to this book very exciting.

The further development of Jack Jr.

Good read, although the solutions to fairly complicated plots came together quite easily and swiftly. LDP is the best in the business when it comes to audiobook performers!