Tom Clancy To Release ‘Locked On’

Tom Clancy will release his new book, LOCKED ON , with G. P. Putnam’s Sons on December 13, 2011. Clancy’s #1 New York Times bestseller, Dead or Alive, was one of the most eagerly awaited novels of last year and earned praise from critics nationwide: “The best characters from all Clancy’s previous novels are on the case…For fans of the genre, Dead or Alive is likely to provide a long weekend’s pleasure.”— Los Angeles Times; “Heart-stopping action…entertaining and eminently topical.”—The Washington Post; “Clancy is back at the top of his game…In-depth research, continuous suspense, and scores of fascinating characters.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review). The paperback edition of Dead or Alive is being released by Berkley Books tomorrow (September 27, 2011).

In LOCKED ON , written in collaboration with author Mark Greaney, Clancy’s new electrifying thriller finds his greatest characters facing their greatest challenge when John Clark becomes the subject of an international manhunt.  The explosive action takes readers from the United States and France to Egypt,Dubai and Pakistan.

Jack Ryan, Sr. has made a tough choice. He’s running for President of the United States and giving up a peaceful retirement to help his country in its darkest hour. But he doesn’t plan on the perfidy of his opponent who uses trumped up charges to attack one of Ryan’s closest comrades, John Clark.  Now, Clark engages in a desperate struggle across three continents. He must travel the world, staying one step ahead of the authorities, and a shadowy organization tasked to bring him in, all while trying to find the man who fingered him for a crime he never committed.

Meanwhile, the Campus, the top secret off-the-books intelligence agency, faces its most implacable foe—a renegade Pakistani general who plans to unleash a wave of terror that will restore the Caliphate. WithJohn Clark missing, Jack Ryan, Jr., Ding Chavez, and Dominic Caruso must race against the clock to foil the terrorists’ plans and interdict the loose nukes which are the key to this unholy campaign.