Although his father had been reluctant to become a field operative, Jack Ryan Jr. wants nothing more. Privately training with a seasonal Special Forces drill instructior, he's honing his skills to transition his work within The Campus from intelligence analysis to hunting down and eliminating terrorists wherever he can even as jack ryan Sr. compaigns for re-election as President of the United States. but what neither father nor son knows is that the political and the personal have just become equally dangerous. A devout emeny of Jack Sr. launches a privately funded vendetta to discredit him by connecting the presidential condidate to a mysterious killing in the past by John Clark, his longtime ally. A shadowy mercenary team is dispatched to capture the former Navy SEAL. With Clark on the run, it's up to Jack Ryan Jr., along with Ding Chavez Dominic Caruso, and the rest of the Campus team, to stope a threat emergining in the Middle East: A corrupt Pakistani genreal has entered into a deadly pact with a fanatical terrorist to procure nuclear warheads, which can be used to blackmail any world power into submission.