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Oath of Office 01 02 03 04 TOM CLANCY 05 06 07 OATH 08 09 10 OF 11 12 OFFICE 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 S30 N31 9780735215955_OathOfOffice_TX.indd i 9/5/18 10:41 AM ALSO BY TOM CLANCY 01 FICTION 02 The Hunt for Red October Red Storm Rising 03 Patriot Games 04 The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clear and Present Danger 05 The Sum of All Fears 06 Without Remorse Debt of Honor 07 Executive Orders 08 Rainbow Six 09 The Bear and the Dragon Red Rabbit 10 The Teeth of the Tiger 11 Dead or Alive (with Grant Blackwood) Against All Enemies (with Peter Telep) 12 Locked On (with Mark Greaney) 13 Threat Vector (with Mark Greaney) Command Authority (with Mark Greaney) 14 Tom Clancy Support and Defend (by Mark Greaney) 15 Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect (by Mark Greaney) 16 Tom Clancy Under Fire (by Grant Blackwood) Tom Clancy Commander in Chief (by Mark Greaney) 17 Tom Clancy Duty and Honor (by Grant Blackwood) 18 Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance (by Mark Greaney) Tom Clancy Point of Contact (by Mike Maden) 19 Tom Clancy Power and Empire (by Marc Cameron) 20 NONFICTION 21 Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship 22 Armored Cav: A Guided Tour Inside an Armored Cavalry Regiment Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing 23 Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit 24 Airborne: A Guided Tour of an Airborne Task Force Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier 25 Into the Storm: A Study in Command 26 with General Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.) and Tony Koltz 27 Every Man a Tiger: The Gulf War Air Campaign 28 with General Chuck Horner (Ret.) and Tony Koltz 29 Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces with General Carl Stiner (Ret.) and Tony Koltz S30 Battle Ready N31 with General Tony Zinni (Ret.) and Tony Koltz 9780735215955_OathOfOffice_TX.indd ii 9/5/18 10:41 AM 9780735215955_OathOfOffice_TX.indd iii 9/5/18 10:41 AM 01 02 03 TOM CLANCY 04 05 06 07 OATH 08 09 10 11 OF 12 13 14 OFFICE 15 16 ★ 17 18 MARC CAMERON 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 g. p. putnam’s sons S30 new york N31 9780735215955_OathOfOffice_TX.indd iv 9/5/18 10:41 AM 9780735215955_OathOfOffice_TX.indd v 9/5/18 10:41 AM 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 G. P. P UTNAM’S SONS Publishers Since 1838 10 An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 375 Hudson Street 11 New York, New York 10014 12 13 Copyright © 2018 by The Estate of Thomas L. Clancy, Jr.; Rubicon, Inc.; Jack Ryan Enterprises, Ltd.; and Jack Ryan Limited Partnership 14 Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this 15 book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any 16 part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader. 17 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN - PUBLICATION DATA 18 [Insert CIP TK] 19 Printed in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 20 21 Maps by Jeffrey L. Ward 22 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or 23 dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30S 31N 9780735215955_OathOfOffice_TX.indd vi 9/5/18 10:41 AM PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS 01 02 03 04 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 05 Jack Ryan: President of the United States 06 Mary Pat Foley: Director of national intelligence 07 Arnold “Arnie” van Damm: President Ryan’s chief of staff 08 Scott Adler: Secretary of state 09 Robert Burgess: Secretary of defense 10 Mark Dehart: Secretary of homeland security 11 12 THE CAMPUS 13 Gerry Hendley: Director of The Campus and Hendley 14 Associates 15 John Clark: Director of operations 16 Domingo “Ding” Chavez: Assistant director of operations 17 Jack Ryan, Jr.: Operations officer and senior analyst 18 Dominic “Dom” Caruso: Operations officer 19 Adara Sherman: Operations officer 20 Bartosz “Midas” Jankowski: Operations officer 21 Gavin Biery: Director of information technology Lisanne Robertson: Director of transportation 22 23 OTHER CHARACTERS 24 United States 25 Dr. Cathy Ryan: First Lady of the United States 26 Will Hyatt: U.S. Air Force Reaper pilot 27 Michelle Chadwick: United States senator 28 Randal Van Orden: Professor of astrophysics, U.S. Naval 29 Academy S30 Alex Hardy: U.S. Naval Academy midshipman N31 vii 9780735215955_OathOfOffice_TX.indd vi 9/5/18 10:41 AM 9780735215955_OathOfOffice_TX.indd vii 9/5/18 10:41 AM PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS 01 Russia 02 Nikita Yermilov: President of Russia 03 Maksim Dudko: Yermilov’s aide 04 Erik Dovzhenko: Russian SVR officer assigned to Tehran 05 Colonel Pavel Mikhailov: Antonov 124 pilot, Russian 06 Federation 07 Elizaveta Bobkova: Russian SVR operative stationed in 08 Washington, D.C. 09 Europe 10 Hugo Gaspard: French arms dealer 11 Lucile Fournier: French assassin 12 Urbano Da Rocha: Portuguese arms dealer 13 14 Iran 15 Reza Kazem: Rasputinesque leader of the Persian Spring 16 Ayatollah Ghorbani: Lesser Ayatollah in Iran’s ruling council 17 Parviz Sassani: Major, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps 18 Maryam Farhad: Dovzhenko’s Iranian girlfriend 19 Ysabel Kashani: Iranian academic; Jack Junior’s former 20 girlfriend 21 Atash Yazdani: Iranian aeronautical engineer 22 Sahar Tabrizi: Iranian astrophysicist 23 Cameroon 24 Chance Burlingame: U.S. ambassador to Cameroon 25 Adin Carr: Diplomatic security agent assigned to Cameroon 26 François Njaya: President of Cameroon 27 General Mbida: Cameroonian general 28 Sarah Porter: Wife of Deputy Chief of Mission, Cameroon 29 Sean Jolivette: F/A- 18 Hornet pilot, USS George H. W. Bush 30S 31N viii 9780735215955_OathOfOffice_TX.indd viii 9/5/18 10:41 AM 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come 08 to ruin among the great number of men who are not good. 09 — Niccolò Machiavelli 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 S30 N31 9780735215955_OathOfOffice_TX.indd viii 9/5/18 10:41 AM 9780735215955_OathOfOffice_TX.indd ix 9/5/18 10:41 AM 01 02 1 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 n Mother Russia, secrets did not stay secret for long. Infor- 10 mation was strength. Informing was ingrained. It was 11 I nothing short of miraculous that Colonel Pavel Mikhailov 12 of the 224th Air Detachment, Military Transport Aviation, 13 had been able to hide his sins at all. 14 The tribunal convened by his superiors had been a lengthy 15 and embarrassing ordeal. But he was better for it, wasn’t he? 16 Bez muki net nauki— no torture, no science. No pain, no gain, 17 the Americans said. Now he’d gotten back his wings— and he 18 wasn’t about to do anything that would jeopardize them again. 19 He would be careful. He would be precise. Above all, he 20 would be sober. 21 Flashlight in hand, the fifty-t hree- year- old colonel walked 22 beneath the drooping wing of the monstrous Antonov An- 124 23 cargo plane, taking comfort in the smell of jet fuel. A light 24 wind tousled his thinning gray hair. Rosacea that never seemed 25 to go away anymore pinked the round apples of his cheeks. 26 The night had turned out chilly, but the day had been a pleas- 27 ant one for spring in Moscow, and the black tarmac was still 28 giving up its warmth. Colonel Mikhailov wore small foam ear- 29 plugs to protect his hearing, but the whine of the auxiliary S30 power unit and the hydraulic squeal of machinery were N31 1 9780735215955_OathOfOffice_TX.indd x 9/5/18 10:41 AM 9780735215955_OathOfOffice_TX.indd 1 9/5/18 10:41 AM MARC CAMERON 01 muffled music to his way of thinking. He played the flashlight 02 under the broad surface of the swept wing, then carefully 03 checked each of the twenty- four tires, as complete and thor- 04 ough in this preflight as if he were still a pink- faced cadet at 05 Gagarin Academy. 06 He never wrecked an aircraft, or even had a close call, but 07 as his commanding general said, no matter how skilled a pilot 08 he was, one could only show up for work “looking like a bag of 09 ass” so many times before people began to talk. Ironically, his 10 superiors had not begun to worry until after he attended his 11 first weekly meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. The Russian 12 government had long been wary of AA— secret meetings and 13 deference to a higher power other than the state lent credence 14 to the general lack of trust in any program created by the 15 West. But more than that, it was Mikhailov’s new attitude that 16 bothered them. 17 Vodka was as much a part of the Russian psyche as great 18 coats and poems about troika rides. 19 In 1858 the government attempted to refill the state coffers 20 drained by the Crimean War by tripling the price of a bucket 21 of vodka. Peasants took oaths of sobriety to protest this tax.
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