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Enemy Contact 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 S32 N33 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 TOM CLANCY 08 09 ENEMY CONTACT 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 S32 N33 9780525541691_EnemyContact_TX.indd i 3/19/19 10:15 AM ALSO BY TOM CLANCY 01 FICTION 02 The Hunt for Red October 03 Red Storm Rising Patriot Games 04 The Cardinal of the Kremlin 05 Clear and Present Danger The Sum of All Fears 06 Without Remorse 07 Debt of Honor 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) 14 Command Authority (with Mark Greaney) 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 Tom Clancy Line of Sight (by Mike Maden) Tom Clancy Oath of Office (by Marc Cameron) 21 22 NONFICTION 23 Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment 24 Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing 25 Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit Airborne: A Guided Tour of an Airborne Task Force 26 Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier 27 Into the Storm: A Study in Command with General Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.), and Tony Koltz 28 Every Man a Tiger: The Gulf War Air Campaign 29 with General Chuck Horner (Ret.) and Tony Koltz 30 Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces with General Carl Stiner (Ret.) and Tony Koltz 31 Battle Ready S32 with General Tony Zinni (Ret.) and Tony Koltz N33 9780525541691_EnemyContact_TX.indd ii 3/19/19 10:15 AM 9780525541691_EnemyContact_TX.indd iii 3/19/19 10:15 AM 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 TOM CLANCY 08 09 10 ENEMY CONTACT 11 12 13 14 15 MIKE MADEN 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS 28 NEW YORK 29 30 31 S32 N33 9780525541691_EnemyContact_TX.indd v 3/19/19 10:15 AM 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS 09 Publishers Since 1838 10 An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC penguinrandomhouse.com 11 12 13 Copyright © 2019 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 15 edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, 16 or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader. 17 18 Title page image © Toria/ Shutterstock.com. 19 ISBN 9780525541691 20 Printed in the United States of America 21 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 22 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of 23 the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32S 33N 9780525541691_EnemyContact_TX.indd vi 3/19/19 10:15 AM 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 Aut inveniam viam aut faciam. 08 I shall find a way or make one. 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 S32 N33 9780525541691_EnemyContact_TX.indd vi 3/19/19 10:15 AM 9780525541691_EnemyContact_TX.indd vii 3/19/19 10:15 AM 01 02 03 04 PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS 05 06 07 08 09 10 THE WHITE HOUSE 11 Jack Ryan: President of the United States 12 Scott Adler: Secretary of state 13 Mary Pat Foley: Director of national intelligence 14 Robert Burgess: Secretary of defense 15 Arnold “Arnie” van Damm: President Ryan’s chief of staff 16 17 THE CAMPUS 18 19 Gerry Hendley: Director of The Campus and Hendley Associates 20 John Clark: Director of operations 21 Domingo “Ding” Chavez: Senior operations officer 22 Jack Ryan, Jr.: Operations officer and senior analyst for Hendley 23 Associates 24 Gavin Biery: Director of information technology 25 Lisanne Robertson: Director of transportation 26 27 CLOUDSERVE, INC. 28 Elias Dahm, CEO 29 Amanda Watson, senior design engineer and head of security for 30 the Intelligence Community Cloud 31 Lawrence Fung: Watson’s number two and supervisor of the Red S32 Team IC Cloud hacking group N33 ix 9780525541691_EnemyContact_TX.indd viii 3/19/19 10:15 AM 9780525541691_EnemyContact_TX.indd ix 3/19/19 10:15 AM PRincipal CHARACTERS 01 OTHER CHARACTERS 02 03 Liliana Pilecki: agent with Poland’s Agencja Bezpieczen´stwa 04 Wewne˛trznego (ABW) 05 Senator Deborah Dixon (R): Chair, Senate Foreign Relations 06 Committee 07 Aaron Gage: husband of Deborah Dixon and CEO and founder of 08 Gage Capital Partners 09 Christopher Gage: stepson of Deborah Dixon and CEO of Gage 10 Group International 11 Rick Sands: former member 75th Ranger Regiment 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32S 33N x 9780525541691_EnemyContact_TX.indd x 3/19/19 10:15 AM 01 02 03 04 1 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 PARTIDO DE BAHÍA BLANCA, ARGENTINA 14 e was a Scorpion. 15 First Ensign Salvio was never more proud of that fact than 16 Hnow. He checked his watch. 17 Three minutes to target. 18 Like his men, he was kitted out in body armor, a leg-​­holstered 19 Glock 17 pistol, an M4A1 carbine, and a ballistic ATE Kevlar hel- 20 met with night- vision goggles. 21 The noise of the whining twin turboshafts of the EC145 Euro- 22 copter filled the dimly lit cabin. His platoon of special operators 23 of Grupo Alacrán—​­Scorpion Group—​­was the best unit in the 24 Gendarmería Nacional Argentina. Maybe the whole country. 25 Grupo Alacrán was Argentina’s primary antiterror weapon. 26 Like Israel’s Yamam—​­the elite police unit with whom Salvio’s 27 team had trained in the Ayalon Valley—his​­ men were the bleeding 28 tip of the spear. 29 Salvio flashed three fingers to his trusted number two, Sergeant- 30 Adjutant Acuña, who acknowledged with a nod and a feral grin. 31 The two of them cut their teeth fighting armed Mafia gangs and S32 Islamic radicals in La Triple Frontera, the border region where N33 1 9780525541691_EnemyContact_TX.indd x 3/19/19 10:15 AM 9780525541691_EnemyContact_TX.indd 1 3/19/19 10:15 AM MIKE MADEN 01 Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina collided. Long a bastion of drugs, 02 guns, and human trafficking by international and indigenous 03 gangs, the region’s violence and crime grew worse each year. The 04 Lebanon civil war drove tens of thousands of Lebanese to the re- 05 gion, and with them, Hezbollah. 06 And with Hezbollah came Iran. 07 Hell, even Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheik Mohammed had 08 visited La Triple Frontera years ago. 09 His government couldn’t root them out. Couldn’t even stem 10 the tide. But after OBL appeared on scene, American money and 11 technology flooded in and brought the war on terror to La Triple 12 Frontera. Kept the cancer contained for a few years. But then the 13 Americans turned their attention elsewhere and now Hezbollah 14 was on the move again. South. 15 Tonight’s mission was proof of that. 16 GNA intelligence had spotted a Lebanese Hezbollah com- 17 mander two days ago, and CIA confirmed. But the CIA confirma- 18 tion yesterday of an actual Iranian Quds Force commander on the 19 ground near the coastal city of Bahía Blanca put blood in their 20 mouths. 21 Against his government’s protests, a gathering of Hasidic youth 22 in Bahía Blanca was scheduled for next week. Hundreds of young 23 Jewish people from all over the country would attend. A perfect 24 target. 25 And an Iranian Quds Force commander to lead the attack. 26 Hezbollah had killed in his country before. More than a hun- 27 dred Jews in two separate bombing attacks in the nineties. 28 And they’d promised to do it again. 29 The two terrorists were holed up at a small abandoned horse 30 ranch just twenty-six​­ kilometers north of the city. “Capture them— 31 alive” was his only order, straight from the mouth of the comandante 32S mayor. A chance to finally break the Hezbollah network, he said. 33N And to knock the bastard Iranians back on their heels. 2 9780525541691_EnemyContact_TX.indd 2 3/19/19 10:15 AM ENEMY CONTACT So they saddled up at their base in Ciudad Evita, loading up 01 three helicopters with twenty-​­three of his best troopers. The 02 three Eurocopters took three different flight vectors, avoiding di- 03 rect routes from the base to the target. He was pushing the EC145 04 range limit to the maximum but there was no point in making it 05 easy for any shoulder-​­fired MANPADS the tangos might have 06 with them.
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