Cry Havoc is AVAILABLE NOW!
Cry ‘Havoc!’, and Let Slip the Frogs of War
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The Origin of the Reece Legacy
From the beginning, The Terminal List series was designed as a universe spanning generations, where history shapes the choices of the present. Cry Havoc marks my first deep dive into the Reece lineage, following James Reece’s father, Tom, during his third SEAL deployment in Vietnam, 1968. Assigned to MACV-SOG, Tom is drawn into a CIA operation that sets the course for his future with the Agency.
At its core, Cry Havoc is an espionage thriller of brotherhood and betrayal, moving from Saigon and Da Nang to the deadly A Shau Valley, along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos, Hanoi, Bangkok, Moscow, Berlin, London, and Washington, D.C. It explores Cold War brinkmanship and old-school tradecraft through the prism of the Vietnam War.
What began as an idea I thought was fiction proved, after months of research, to be chillingly close to fact. The answers lie in the pages ahead.
Tom Reece has arrived, and he has arrived with a vengeance!
“Best book of the year!”
-The Real Book Spy
2025 Book Tour
Jack Carr is on tour for CRY HAVOC — the first Tom Reece thriller and the explosive origin story in the James Reece universe. Each stop brings the story behind CRY HAVOC, a live Q&A, and a photo opportunity with Jack.
OCTOBER 5, 5:00 PM MT / Scottsdale, AZ – Poisoned Pen SOLD OUT- OCTOBER 7, 6:30 PM CT / Austin, TX – Barnes & Noble
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- OCTOBER 11, 2:30 PM ET / Tampa, FL – Tampa Theatre
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OCTOBER 14, 7:00 PM ET / Baltimore, MD – Park Books SOLD OUT- OCTOBER 15, 7:00 PM PT / Yorba Linda, CA – Richard Nixon Museum
- OCTOBER 16, 5:00 PM MT / Park City, UT – Dolly’s Bookstore
Hear the Stories of MACV-SOG Veterans
Dive Deeper into Vietnam’s Shadow War
About the book:
Just before the Tet Offensive changes the dynamic in Vietnam, before President Johnson announces he will not run for reelection, before the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, as riots and protests rage across the nation, a spy ship, the USS Pueblo, is captured by communist forces off the coast of North Korea. The crew thought they had destroyed everything of intelligence value. They were wrong.
As a KGB “illegal” elicits information from a high-ranking CIA official, and teams of special operators infiltrating into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam disappear without a trace, an ambitious Soviet advisor launches an ingenious plan with consequences that reach far beyond the battlefields of Southeast Asia, one that will forever alter the world balance of power.
Tom Reece, a SEAL operator attached to the highly classified and shadowy MACV-SOG is about to be thrust into a bloody battle to discover the truth.
From the Kremlin to the White House, from the streets of Saigon to the rugged A Shau Valley, along the paths of Ho Chi Minh Trail and into the secret war in Laos, Navy SEAL Tom Reece has an official mission assigned by Military Assistance Command, Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group, but it’s his unofficial mission that might get him killed.
FICTION WITH WHISPERS OF TRUTH
Applying the experience and emotions from real-world combat to the pages of his novels, Jack Carr brings unprecedented levels of authenticity to the political thriller, taking readers on a behind the scenes journey into the mind of a modern-day special operations soldier.
