Flash Point is one of Don Bentley’s most adrenaline-fueled thrillers in the Clancyverse, with high stakes for our beloved characters and fantastic character developments to usher in a new age of the franchise.
Jack Ryan Jr. is putting on his leadership pants as he takes his team over the globe to investigate aggressive Chinese tactics from kidnapping scientists to midair collisions that all serve some mysterious mission that Ryan must get on top of before the threat hits close to home, particularly the members of The Campus.
Don Bentley wastes no time in heating up the conflicts with cutthroat action sequences as the narrative kicks off with an exciting shootout and an adrenaline-pumping immersive bike chase in Germany. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s submarine action, aerial action, and an absolute beast of a climax as Ryan Jr. guns and runs to save a certain Campus member from gruesome death.
What makes Flash Point such an impressive entry in the Clancyverse is the sense of mortal danger that’s instilled in the characters and ultimately seeps through to readers. Quite often, thrillers fall into the rut of having the protagonist accomplish the most ludicrous feats without any palpable dangers faced. Don Bentley takes some well-timed risks with the characters to deliver a high stakes narrative. It also serves to place Ryan Jr. in a leadership role for fresh blood in the series, one that puts him in a new light just as he’s recuperating from the gruesome events of the last book and also lays the foundation of a new chapter in his life as he evaluates his priorities.
Flash Point is an excellent thriller supercharged with state-of-the-art technology in tandem with marvelous action and fantastic new characters to carry this series further into the promising future. Bentley delivers a masterclass in thrillers!
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