It was an effort to get past the last one, Debt of Honor, but I was hooked by the cliffhanger from the end of Debt of Honor.
There did not seem to be an editor involved in writing this book. There were far to many instances of poor word choices, including several instances of just plain incorrect words; one specific example referencing an Apache helicopter, and referencing the same pilot in an airplane later in the paragraph.
Can characters be less than one dimensional? Would that be what half-baked ideas are? To paraphrase (actual steal and change) from Spaceballs, "now you see that good will always triumph because evil is dumb." The succession obstacle that Ryan faces could have been so much better and created a real conflict, as opposed to the farcical disembarkation from a clown car that it was, as written.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. This will be the last Tom Clancy book that I read.