Tom Clancy's Point of Contact

Jack Ryan Jr. arrives in Singapore expecting a routine administrative assignment and finds himself in the middle of a mole hunt, a North Korean missile crisis, and a tropical cyclone, all at once. His unassuming new partner, Paul Brown, turns out to have layers Jack hadn't anticipated, and as the threat escalates, the two must outrun both a murderous storm and a team of trained assassins while preventing the start of a new nuclear arms race. Mike Maden's entry in the Jack Ryan Jr. series builds its tension through a believable geopolitical scenario and an unusually personal central dynamic.

Scott Brick handles the Clancy universe's particular combination of technical thriller and geopolitical thriller with the authority he brings to all of his work in this space. His pacing keeps the escalating crises legible even when multiple simultaneous dangers converge, and his command of the Singapore setting gives the action its proper texture. At just under fourteen hours, this is a strong entry in the series.