Audio Book Description:
In a nondescript office building in suburban Maryland, afirm named Hendley Associates does a profitable business in stocks, bonds, andinternational currencies, but its real mission is quite different: to identify and locate terrorist threats, and then deal with them, in whatever mannernecessary. "The Campus" is always on thelookout for promising new talent, and three men are about to cross its radar. The first of them is DominicCaruso, a rookie FBI agent whose decisive actions resolve a brutal kidnap/murder case. The second is Caruso`s brother, Brian, a Marine captain justback from his first combat action. And the third is their cousin...a young man named Jack Ryan, Jr. Ashis father rose through theranks of the CIA and then to the White House, Jack received a life course in the world and the way it works. He wantsto put it all to work now - but when heknocks on the front door of "The Campus"he finds that nothing has prepared him for what he is about to encounter. For it is indeed a different world outthere - and in here...and it isabout tobecome a lot more dangerous.