💾🌊 Code of Honor by Marc Cameron

Not a Book Report

I enjoy reflecting on the movies, TV, books and other media that I consume. I’m notoriously sentimental. This series documents the books that I read. These aren’t reviews or recommendations. Just a list. For me. Mostly so that I can page through what I read, where I was, and when.

Why did I read it?

I picked up a Tom Clancy book in the Stockholm Central train station a couple months ago and it made me remember how fun these can be. So I rewound in the series by about a decade and picked up at Book 10 in the run. I have been spending a lot of time wading through some complex, but interesting, challenges at the office - all good problems, but the kinds of things that leave me beat at the end of the day and ready to jump into a novel about spies and special forces for 30 minutes before I fall asleep.

What is it?

Category	Value
Title	Code of Honor
Author	Marc Cameron
Year Published	2019
Format	Kindle
Pages	511
ASIN	B07PKJRKV7

Publisher Summary

Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he’s been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam.

President Ryan is desperate to rescue his old friend, but he can’t move officially against the Indonesians. Instead he relies on the Campus team to find out who is framing the priest.

There’s one other twist to the story. President Ryan discovers a text on his private cell phone from the priest warning about a coming attack against America…

How did I read it?

Category	Value
Date Started	June 10, 2024
Date Finished	June 16, 2024
Places Read	Lisbon, Sintra, TAP flights to and from London

Notes - No Spoilers

• I continue to be disappointed in the Cameron entries into the Tom Clancy universe.
• I also continue to read them because, at this point, I just like hanging out with the characters and these are the idea “dad lit before bed” books.
• The plots are all starting to blend together. Although Jack Ryan Sr. seems to be getting into the action more.
• The build up here really fizzled out in the attempt to recapture the missile. Although maybe that is okay - one of the annoying things about these books is that the stakes in each seem to be truly “end of the world” and this dialed that down a good bit.