Tom Clancy - Threat Vector

ALSO BY TOM CLANCY

FICTION

The Hunt for Red October

Red Storm Rising

Patriot Games

The Cardinal of the Kremlin

Clear and Present Danger

The Sum of All Fears

Without Remorse

Debt of Honor

Executive Orders

Rainbow Six

The Bear and the Dragon

Red Rabbit

The Teeth of the Tiger

Dead or Alive

Against All Enemies

Locked On

NONFICTION

Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship

Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment

Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing

Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit

Airborne: A Guided Tour of an Airborne Task Force

Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier

Into the Storm: A Study in Command

with General Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.), and Tony Koltz

Every Man a Tiger: The Gulf War Air Campaign

with General Chuck Horner (Ret.) and Tony Koltz

Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces

with General Carl Stiner (Ret.) and Tony Koltz

THREAT VECTOR

TOM CLANCY

with M ARK G REANEY

G. P. PUTNAMS SONS

New York

G. P. PUTNAMS SONS

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ISBN 978-1-101-60795-4

MAPS COPYRIGHT 2012 JEFFREY L. WARD

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

CONTENTS

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

United States Government

• J OHN P ATRICK J ACK R YAN : President of the United States
• A RNOLD VAN D AMM : the Presidents chief of staff
• R OBERT B URGESS : secretary of defense
• S COTT A DLER : secretary of state
• M ARY P ATRICIA F OLEY : director of national intelligence
• C OLLEEN H URST : national security adviser
• J AY C ANFIELD : director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• K ENNETH L I : U.S. ambassador to China
• A DAM Y AO : operations officer, National Clandestine Service, Central Intelligence Agency
• M ELANIE K RAFT : reports officer, Central Intelligence Agency (on loan to Office of the Director of National Intelligence)
• D ARREN L IPTON : senior special agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Branch, Counterintelligence Division

United States Military

• A DMIRAL M ARK J ORGENSEN : United States Navy, commander Pacific Fleet
• G ENERAL H ENRY B LOOM : United States Air Force, commander United States Cyber Command
• C APTAIN B RANDON T RASH W HITE : United States Marine Corps, F/A-18C Hornet pilot
• M AJOR S COTT C HEESE S TILTON : United States Marine Corps, F/A-18C Hornet pilot
• C HIEF P ETTY O FFICER M ICHAEL M EYER : United States Navy, SEAL Team Six element leader

The Campus

• G ERRY H ENDLEY : director of Hendley Associates/director of The Campus
• S AM G RANGER : director of operations
• J OHN C LARK : operations officer
• D OMINGO D ING C HAVEZ : operations officer
• D OMINIC C ARUSO : operations officer
• S AM D RISCOLL : operations officer
• J ACK R YAN , J R .: operations officer/analyst
• R ICK B ELL : director of analysis
• T ONY W ILLS : analyst
• G AVIN B IERY : director of information technology

The Chinese

• W EI Z HEN L IN : president of the Peoples Republic of China/general secretary of the Communist Party of China
• S U K E Q IANG : chairman of the Central Military Commission of China
• W U F AN J UN : intelligence officer, Ministry of State Security, Shanghai
• D R . T ONG K WOK K WAN, aka C ENTER : computer network operations director of Ghost Ship
• Z HA S HU H AI, aka FastByte22: Interpol-wanted cybercriminal
• C RANE : Leader of Vancouver Cell
• H AN : factory owner and high-tech counterfeiter

Additional Characters

• V ALENTIN O LEGOVICH K OVALENKO : ExSVR (Russian foreign intelligence) assistant rezident of London Station
• T ODD W ICKS : territory sales manager of Advantage Technology Solutions
• C HARLIE D ARK G OD L EVY : amateur hacker
• D R . C ATHY R YAN : wife of President Jack Ryan
• S ANDY C LARK : wife of John Clark
• D R . P ATSY C LARK : wife of Domingo Chavez/daughter of John Clark
• E MAD K ARTAL : exLibyan intelligence officer, communications specialist

PROLOGUE

T hese were grim days for former operatives of the Jamahiriya Security Organization, the dreaded national intelligence service of Libya under Moammar Gaddafi. Those members of the JSO who had managed to survive the revolution in their home nation were now scattered and in hiding, fearing the day when their cruel and brutal past would catch up with them in a cruel and brutal way.

After the fall of Tripoli to Western-backed rebels the year before, some JSO operatives had remained in Libya, hoping that by changing their identities they would save themselves from reprisal. This rarely worked, as others knew their secrets and were all too happy to finger them to revolutionist headhunters, either to settle old scores or to win new favors. Gaddafis spies in Libya were rounded up wherever they hid, tortured, and then killed; in other words, they were treated no worse than they deserved, though the West had held out some naive hope that fair trials for past crimes would be the order of the day when the rebels took power.

But no, mercy did not follow Gaddafis death any more than mercy had preceded it.

Meet the new boss, same as the old.