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Clear and present danger

by Clancy, Tom, 1947-2013.

Format: Print Book 1990
Availability: Available at 2 Libraries 2 of 2 copies

Available (2)
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Brentwood Library Fiction FICTION Clancy
Location  Brentwood Library
 
Collection  Fiction
 
Call Number  FICTION Clancy
 
 
Carnegie Library of McKeesport - Duquesne Fiction F CLA
Location  Carnegie Library of McKeesport - Duquesne
 
Collection  Fiction
 
Call Number  F CLA
 
 

Summary
In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan gets caught in a war between the United States and a Colombian drug cartel and uncovers a shocking conspiracy.

When Colombian drug lords assassinate both the U.S. ambassador and the visiting head of the FBI, their actions trigger a covert response from the American government--a response that goes horribly wrong...

As the newly named Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA, Jack Ryan should be privy to operations like the one in Colombia, but he's been left completely in the dark. With the help of field officer John Clark, Ryan intends to find out what's really going on. But while they expect danger from without, the greatest threat of all may come from within.
Published Reviews
Publisher's Weekly Review: "In his fifth novel, the dean of techno-thrillers demonstrates once again his mastery of the genre. A president decides that drug smuggling has become a ``clear and present danger'' to national security. The response is a complex and covert military campaign against the ``Colombian Cartel.'' Clancy presents the technology of special operations and the details of light infantry warfare with his usual facility. Superior even to his descriptions of tools and techniques, however, is Clancy's analysis of the legal and moral problems of operating in a twilight zone, where the rules are ambiguous and an open society makes secrecy impossible. As the project unravels, Clancy's protagonist Jack Ryan tries to avert a total debacle and to rescue the men who have been hung out to dry. Clancy's scenario is plausible and its development compelling. His characters are nicely drawn--particularly a Cuban intelligence officer who has ``gone private'' and now works for the drug lords--and his conclusion is unusual and provocative. Clear and Pres ent Danger is, in short, the author's best work since The Hunt for Red October. BOMC main selection. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information
Series Jack Ryan thriller (publication date order)
Features Jack Ryan, Sr., a CIA Deputy Director of Central Intelligence who eventually serves two terms as President of the United States
#1 - The Hunt for Red October
#2 - Patriot games
#3 - The Cardinal of the Kremlin
#4 - Clear and present danger
#5 - The Sum of all fears
#6 - Debt of honor
#7 - Executive orders
#8 - Red rabbit
#9 - Command authority
#10 - Full force and effect
#11 - Commander in chief
#12 - True faith and allegiance
#13 - Power and empire
#14 - Oath of office
#15 - Code of honor
#16 - Shadow of the dragon
#17 - Chain of command
#18 - Red winter
Subjects Ryan, Jack, -- Sr. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Publisher New York :Berkley Books,1990
Edition Berkley mass-market ed.
Language English
Description 688 pages ; 18 cm
ISBN 0425122123 (pbk.)
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