Shadow State

Shadow State is M.P. Woodward’s first Jack Ryan Jr. novel, picking up the series from Don Bentley. Woodward — a former Navy intelligence officer — pulls the book toward the tradecraft-heavy end of the spectrum: a Hendley trip to Vietnam turns into an extended counterintelligence operation against a Chinese state-backed play for rare earth supply.

The book debuted at #10 on the New York Times bestseller list.