True Faith and Allegiance appears to be the latest in the Jack Ryan/John Clark series of novels begun by the legendary Tom Clancy, and continued by him with co-author Mark Greaney. Following Clancy’s death, the series continues sole authored by Greaney very much maintaining the classic Clancy style.
I give full props to Greaney for writing a good “Clancy world” book, he learned it well. In this book President Ryan faces a wave of terror incidents on U.S. soil. The Campus, including John Clark and the President’s son Jack Jr. tackle finding out who is doing what and more importantly how the terrorists have the intel to do what they do.
This book explores how bad people who know how to follow clues online can learn much about people they’d like to harm from their social media presence; either from their own or their friends’ sites. It really shows we give away far too much personal data in our online postings.
If reading this novel doesn’t convince you to stay off Facebook and similar social media sites, probably nothing will. It is a good read, classic “guy” fiction, at which form Clancy, Cussler, and Griffin are masters. The topic is very timely, these online security issues are being discussed at Davos as I write this.
