Jack Ryan Jr. is out to avenge the murder of an old friend but the vein of evil he's tapped
into may run too deep for him to handle in the latest electric entry in the #1 New York Times
bestselling series. While on vacation in Barcelona Jack Ryan Jr. is surprised to run into an
old friend at a small café. A first Renee Moore seems surprised to see Jack but then she just
seems irritated and distracted. After making plans to meet later Jack leaves only to miss the
opportunity to ever speak to Renee again as the café is destroyed minutes later by a suicide
bomber. A desperate Jack plunges back into the ruins to save his friend but it's too late. As
she dies in his arms she utters one word Sammler. When the police show up they are initially
suspicious of Jack until they are called off by a member of the Spanish Intelligence Service.
This mysterious sequence of events sends the young Campus operative on an unrelenting search to
find out the reason behind Renee's death. Along the way he discovers that his old friend had
secrets of her own--and some of them may have gotten her killed. Jack has never backed down
from a challenge but some prey may be too big for one man.
