Target Acquired

Target Acquired is Don Bentley’s first Jack Ryan Jr. novel and a noticeable shift in the series’ texture. Bentley — a former Apache pilot and FBI special agent — writes Jack Jr. as a more confident operator, and this book is built as a tight, single-mission thriller: Jack is in Tel Aviv for what should be a one-night favor to Ding Chavez. It becomes an Israeli-domestic counter-terrorism operation with Jack deep inside it.