Shadow of the Dragon
Shadow of the Dragon is a thriller novel written by Marc Cameron. It was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons on November 17th, 2020.
Plot
Aboard an icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean, Patti Moon, a sonar operator hears an unusual noise coming from the ocean floor. She can’t isolate it and chalks the event up to an anomaly in a newly installed system.
Meanwhile, operatives with the Chinese Ministry of State Security are dealing with their own mystery–the disappearance of brilliant but eccentric scientist, Liu Wangshu. They’re desperate to keep his crucial knowledge of aerospace and naval technology out of their rivals’ hands.
Finding Liu is too great an opportunity for any intelligence service to pass up, but there’s one more problem. A high-level Chinese mole, codenamed Surveyor, has managed to infiltrate American Intelligence. President Jack Ryan has only one choice: send John Clark and his Campus team deep into China to find an old graduate student of the professor’s who may hold the key to his whereabouts. It’s a dangerous gamble, but with John Clark holding the cards, Jack Ryan is all in.
Principal Characters
United States
- Jack Ryan, Sr.: President of the United States
- Arnold van Damm: President Ryan's Chief of Staff
- Mary Pat Foley: Director of National Intelligence
- Scott Adler: Secretary of State
- Robert Burgess: Secretary of Defense
- John Talbot: Chief of Naval Operations
- Gary Montgomery: Special agent, Secret Service Presidential Protection Detail
- Jay Canfield: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- Robbie Forestall: Commander of the United States Navy, adviser to President Ryan
The Campus
- Gerry Hendley: Director of The Campus and Hendley Associates
- John Clark: Director of operations
- Domingo Chavez: Assistant director of operations
- Jack Ryan, Jr.: Operations officer, senior analyst
- Dominic Caruso: Operations officer
- Adara Sherman: Operations officer
- Bartosz Jankowski: Operations officer
- Gavin Biery: Director of Information Technology
- Lisanne Robertson: Director of Transportation
USS Indiana (SSN 789)
- Cole Condiff: Captain
- Lowdermilk: Lieutenant, officer of the deck
- Markette: Petty officer, sonar technician
- Ramirez: New crew member
- Roosevelt “Rosey” Jackson: Captain, USS Makin Island; nephew of former POTUS Robert Jackson
- Jay Rapoza: Captain, USCG icebreaker Healy
ELISE
- Monica Hendricks: CIA operations officer in charge of ELISE
- Peter Li: Retired USN admiral
- David Wallace: FBI counterintelligence agent assigned to ELISE
- Odette Miller: CIA counterintelligence officer
- Tim Meyer: CIA case officer
Albania
- Leigh Murphy: CIA case officer, Tirana
- Fredrick Rask: CIA chief of station, Tirana
- Vlora Cafaro: CIA case officer, Tirana
- Joey Shoop: CIA officer, Tirana
- Urkesh Beg: Uyghur refugee living in asylum in Albania
Others
- Caroline Ryan: First Lady of the United States
- Adam Yao: CIA case officer (NOC)
- Patti Moon: Scientist on light icebreaker R/V Sikuliaq
- Kelli Symonds: First officer, R/V Sikuliaq
- Shad Barker: Sonar technician, USS John Paul Jones
China
- Liu Wangshu: Engineering professor
- Medina Tohti: Uyghur woman, fugitive from PRC authorities
- Hala Tohti: Medina's daughter
- Zulfira Azizi: Medina's sister; Hala's aunt
- Timur Samedi: Kashgar contact
- Yunus Samedi: Kashgar contact
- Ren Shuren: Major, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
- Ren Zhelan: Chinese assistant bureaucrat, Kashgar Medina
- Suo: Chinese bureaucrat, Kashgar
- Ma “Mamut” Jianyu: Leader of the Wuming movement; Uyghur mother, Han father
- Zheng Guiying: PLAN admiral in charge of naval intelligence
- Fu Bohai: Zheng's henchman and primary hunter of Medina
- Qiu: Fu Bohai's assistant
PLAN Expedition # 771 (Blue Dragon)
- Sun Luoyang: Captain
- Bai Jiahao: Commander, XO (Executive Officer)
PLAN Nuclear SSBN 880 (Long March)
- Tian Ju: Captain
- Wan Xiuying: Commander, XO (Executive Officer)