Patriot Games (Jack Ryan)
by Tom Clancy
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Author: Tom ClancyEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-07-01
ISBN: 0425112187
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Berkley
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Book Review: The Origin of the Real Jack Ryan
Summary: 5 Stars
Jack Ryan never really wanted to be an intelligence agent. Even his stint in the marines was a means to an end for a doctorate education. But what he got in the end was a sense of duty, a mind adept to intelligence analysis, a wife who was not only a great surgeon but the love of his life, and a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
This is where it all begins. Jack Ryan saw a murder about to happen, and he stopped it, disabling one terrorist and killing another. What he didn't know was that the intended victims of a kidnap plot were Prince Charles, Princess Diana, and their infant son (Prince William). In an instant he became a hero, with an honorary knighthood and the wrath of the group who had planned the operation. He even got the personal gratitude and friendship of the royal family.
The event sends Jack into the CIA, a job he had resisted before, in an attempt to learn about the why and how of the attack. He proves to be great at intelligence, with his information leading to the arrest of another group of terrorists. But what nobody could predict was that after the escape of the terrorist Jack only wounded, he would go after him again. A small dinner party with the Prince and Princess of Wales, as well as close friend (and eventual vice president) Robby Jackson and his wife turns into another terrorist kidnapping.
Patriot Games is a great introduction to the forces that brought Jack Ryan into the intelligence game. Jack showed his honor and intelligence, and in the history of the books, lots of people would rue the day he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. From figuring out how to steal a top secret Soviet submarine, compromising the head of the KGB, and stopping what would have been a nuclear war, Jack Ryan served the interests of the United States - and the world. He even ended up as President, a job he didn't really want but accepted and did to the best of his ability. Patriot Games is the start of a saga of a man who became a legend.
Summary of Patriot Games (Jack Ryan)
The phenomenal bestselling author of The Hunt for Red October and The Sum of All Fears, Tom Clancy is one of America's most acclaimed storytellers.
Now he targets a CIA analyst and his family in the deadliest game of our time -- international terrorism.
In an explosive wave of violence, an ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA hunts one man for his act of salvation in an assassination attempt. And now he must pay . . . with his life.
Now he targets a CIA analyst and his family in the deadliest game of our time -- international terrorism.
In an explosive wave of violence, an ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA hunts one man for his act of salvation in an assassination attempt. And now he must pay . . . with his life.
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 assasination attempt. And now he must pay ... with his life.
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