Even though he’s on forced leave from the clandestine intelligence group known as The Campus, Jack Ryan, Jr., still finds himself caught in the crosshairs after an attempt on his life is thwarted when he turns the tables on his would-be dispatcher. Convinced that the attack is linked to his recent covert actions with the convalescing Iranian national Ysabel Kashini, Jack sets out to find out who wants him dead, and why.             Using clues found on the now dead assassin, Jack pursues the investigation, following a growing trail of corpses to the European Union’s premier private security firm, Rostock Security Group, and its founder, Jürgen Rostock—a former general in the German Special Forces Command. Rostock is world-renowned as a philanthropist and human rights advocate. But Jack knows him from a Campus mission revolving around a company linked to RSG—a mission that has put him on Rostock’s lethal radar.              Without any Campus resources, Jack launches his own shadow campaign to uncover the truth about Rostock and a long-running false-flag war of terror that has claimed thousands of lives. Yet all of that bloodshed is but a precursor to a coming catastrophic event that will solidify Rostock’s place among the global powers. An event that Jack must stop at any cost. Praise for Tom Clancy Duty and Honor “Action-adventure addicts will get their fixes.”— Kirkus Reviews More Praise for the Jack Ryan Jr. Series “Will satisfy the craving of the audience for more Ryan family adventures”— Booklist  “Under Fire is a tour de force of the kind Clancy practically invented, a tale beautifully envisioned and realized.”— Providence Journal “Mixes nail-biting suspense with hard-hitting action to deliver a blockbuster hit.”—The Real Book Spy “A high-octane, high stakes novel of international intrigue and military action, involving global brinksmanship, espionage, and romance.”—The Huffington Post “Continue[s] the intense, thrilling, and realistic plots that Tom Clancy was known for...riveting and gripping.”—Elise Cooper for Military Press, Crimespree Magazine, and Blackfive.net TOM CLANCY  was the #1  New York Times– bestselling author of more than eighteen books. He died in October 2013.  The  New York Times– bestselling author of the Briggs Tanner series,  GRANT BLACKWOOD  is also the coauthor of the #1  New York Times  bestseller  Dead or Alive , with Tom Clancy, and  The Kill Switch , with James Rollins. Blackwood is the author of  the  New York Times  bestseller,  Tom Clancy Under Fire .  A U.S. Navy Veteran, Grant spent three years aboard a guided missile frigate as an Operations Specialist and a Pilot Rescue Swimmer. 1 Alexandria, Virginia Jack Ryan, Jr., would later wonder what exactly had saved his life that night. One thing was certain: It hadn’t been skill. Maybe the heft of the bok choy had bought him a split second, maybe the mud, but not skill. Dumb luck. Survival instinct. The Supermercado was neither in his neighborhood nor near his frequent errand stops, but it did have the best selection of fruits and vegetables in Alexandria—so Ding Chavez had told him eight months ago, but it had been only recently, since his forced leave of absence from The Campus, that he’d become a believer. Being unemployed had given him a lot to think about and plenty of time to broaden his horizons. The one frontier he’d so far refused to explore despite his sister Sally’s exhortations was binge-watching Girls on HBO. That was his Rubicon. No crossing the river for the Roman legions, no chick TV for Jack Ryan. Soon, though, he’d have to make a decision about his loose-ends lifestyle. Another couple weeks and his probation would be over. Gerry Hendley would want an answer: Was he coming back to The Campus, or were they parting company permanently? And do what? Jack thought. He’d spent most of his adult life working at The Campus, aka Hendley Associates, first as an analyst and then as an operations officer—a field spook. The off-the-books counterterror organization had been created by his father, President Jack Ryan, and had since its inception been overseen by former senator Gerry Hendley. So far they’d had a lot of success going after some of the world’s “big bads” while still managing to make a decent profit not only for their clients, all of whom knew Hendley only as a financial arbitrage company, but also for The Campus’s covert operational budget. “Seventeen fifty,” the cashier told him. Jack handed her a twenty, took his change, then collected his brown-paper sack from the glum teenage bagger and headed for the door. It was just past eight p.m. and the store was almost deserted. Through the broad front windows he could see rain glittering in the glow of the parking lot’s sodium-vapor lights. Accompanied by a cold front, rain had been falling in Alexandria for three straight days. Creeks were swollen and the DIY stores nearest the Potomac were seeing a jump in sandbag sales. Perfect