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Tom Clancy novels
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Using the latest advancements in military technology,
the world's superpowers battle it out on land, sea, and air for the ultimate global
control. A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as
powerful as it is ambitious. It's a story you will never forget.
Hard-hitting, suspenseful, and frighteningly real.
Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander
has just made a fateful decision: the Red October is heading west. The
Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most
incredible chase in history is on.... The Hunt for Red October is the runaway
bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so accurate
and convincing that the author was rumored to have been debriefed by the White House. Its
theme: the greatest espionage coup in history. Its story: the chase for a runaway top
secret Russian missile sub.
The bestselling author of Red Storm Rising and The Sum
of All Fears brings Jack Ryan back in his to fight his deadliest battle yet.
From England to Ireland to America, an explosive wave of violence sweeps a CIA analyst and
his family into the deadliest game of our time: international terrorism.
An
ultra-left-wing faction fo the IRA has targeted the CIA man for his
act of salvation in an assassination attempt. And now he must pay ... with his
life.
Patriot Games is my first Tom Clancy novel. It was excellent!
The
terrorists are convincing. I particularly like the Sean Miller character.
The plot is typical Clancy story line: an intriguing combination of action and
emotion. The scene where Cathy Ryan is gunned down in her Porsche is great.
The narrative is smooth. A fantastic novel.
The story
involves IRA assassins attempting to avenge their failed operation
in London by killing Jack Ryan and family. The finale is suspenseful. Tom
Clancy at his best. If only it went on like this.
At the end of the prologue to Clear and Present Danger,
Clancy writes, "And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon
end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they
all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too
fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things
fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen." In Clear
and Present Danger nothing is as clear as it may seem.
The president, unsatisfied with the success of his "war on drugs," decides that
he wants some immediate success. But after John Clark's covert strike team is
deployed to Colombia for Operation Showboat, the drug lords strike back taking several
civilian casualties. The chief executive's polls plummet. He orders Ritter to
terminate their unofficial plan and leave no traces. Jack Ryan, who has just been named
CIA deputy director of intelligence is enraged when he discovers that has been left out of
the loop of Colombian operations. Several of America's most highly trained
soldiers are stranded in an unfinished mission that, according to all records, never
existed. Ryan decides to get the men out.
In The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Tom Clancy's
cutting-edge research takes readers inside Soviet and American attempts to develop a
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). The Soviets have begun successful tests of
their system, located near the border of Afghanistan. Americans race to implement
their own system, Tea Clipper, so as to maintain strategic parity.
Cardinal of the Kremlin, however, is more about the shifting allegiances of the
intelligence community and the unstable world of late 1980s U.S.-Soviet relations than it
is about military technology. Colonel Mikhail Filitov is the Cardinal, the
CIA's ear in the Kremlin and a steady source of the latest Soviet secrets.
Passing microfilm through a chain of agents that begins in a Turkish bath, the Cardinal
exposes a double agent in the American SDI program. Unfortunately, the KGB
also knows that they have a mole in their midst. In tightly crafted narrative
that rapidly cuts from the Kremlin to Afghanistan to Washington, D.C., the Americans rush
to pull Filitov and his associates out before his cover is blown. Jack Ryan
returns as the moral center in a world often dominated by egos and politicking, and John
Clark, ex-Navy SEAL and current CIA agent makes his first
appearance in a Clancy novel (though his early life is chronicled in Without Remorse).
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Australian Order of Precedence
Missile Crisis in Cuba - President John F. Kennedy - Bay of Pigs
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