Power and Empire (Jack Ryan Universe, #24)

by Marc Cameron

Anything illegal on board was the fault of the shipper, not the ship.

But there was no lure in boxes.

Jack picked his clubs and hit the ball, but Arnie told him the lay of the course.

an old guy with a young blond wife who was way too hot for his fat gut

He did not actually end the call first. Such an act would have proven disastrous. Even a man as powerful as the foreign minister of China knew to let his wife be the one to end the call.