Shortly after, he is ordered to a prison-like correctional monastery deep in the Sonora Desert of Arizona.

But, out of the blue, he is transferred without explanation to a temporary university teaching post. ThereвЂ™s just one more step needed to complete this perfect planвЂ¦the elimination of the president of the United States.ДЇather Steve Murphy, a Roman Catholic priest, pastor of a parish in an affluent suburb of Washington, DC, revered by his parishioners, believes he is about to be elevated to Monsignor. Coupled with their nuclear capabilities, the money from this find will make North Korea a dangerous force on the world stage. A rich deposit of valuable minerals have been found in the Hermit Kingdom. However, there has been a dramatic change in the nationвЂ™s economic fortune. Until now, that program was impeded by a lack of resources. Like his father before him, he hangs his plans on the countryвЂ™s nuclear ambitions. A young, untested dictator is determined to prove his strength by breaking the deadlock. The international stalemate with North Korea continues into its seventh decade.

The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. His rescue could spell the difference between peace and war, and it is up to Jack Ryan to accomplish it - if he can - as, in a breathtaking sequence of hunter and hunted, Filitov's life, and Ryan's and that of the world itself literally hang in the balance.ДЄ North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. Because Filitov, code-named Cardinal, is America's highest agent in the Kremlin, and he is about to be betrayed to the KGB. To the two greatest nations on earth, no contest is more urgent than the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system, and no one knows that more than the two men charged with assessing the Soviets' capabilities: Colonel Mikhail Filitov of the Soviet Union, an old-line warrior distrusted by the army's new inner circle of technocrats, and CIA analyst Jack Ryan, hero of the Red October affair.Д®ach must use all his craft to arrive at the truth, but Filitov gets there first - and that's when all hell breaks loose. In the Soviet hills of Dushanbe near the Afghanistan border, an otherworldly array of pillars and domes rises into the night. In a rolling sea off the coast of South America, a target disappears in a puff of green light. With the world poised on the brink of nuclear war, Ryan and his FBI counterpart, Dan Murray, frantically seek a solution before the chiefs of state lose control of themselves - and the world. What had seemed to be an isolated and horrible incident appears to each side as the incendiary mischief of the other. With one terrible act, the world is plunged into an instant nuclear crisis - and the floundering President is plunged into the ultimate nightmare. Shunned by their erstwhile Soviet sponsors, increasingly isolated by the realignment of the Mideast, these terrorists have one more desperate card to play, requiring a degree of ruthlessness never before seen. How do you save the United States President from himself? What if the President is incompetent to deal with the greatest crisis of all? Jack Ryan never thought he would have to ask those questions as, the world order changing, he prepares the ground for the Middle Eastern peace plan that, at last, might be the one to work.Д«ut too many groups have invested too much blood.

And in the weeks and months to come, it is Jack Ryan, and his family, who will become the targets of that hate. It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns whose lives he has saved - the Prince and Princess of Wales and their new young son - and which enemies he has made - the Ulster Liberation Army, an ultra-left-wing splinter of the IRA.Д«y his impulsive act, he has gained both the gratitude of a nation and then enmity of hits most dangerous men - men who do not sit on their hate. Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot. Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets, historian, ex-Marine and CIA analyst Jack Ryan is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter, when a terrorist attack takes place before his eyes. Patriot Games puts us on the cutting edge of another type of war - the international battle of terrorism. Tom Clancy's Patriot Games is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguished the author's two previous bestsellers, Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising.

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