Scott Brick

It's the early 1980s-and historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine Jack Ryan is now a CIA officer on loan to the British SIS. On his very first day, an extraordinary document crosses his desk. Because of government repression in Poland, the new Pope, John Paul II, has threatened to resign his papacy. In Moscow, another man is contemplating the very same document. Yuriy Andropov, the chairman of the KGB, does not like what he reads, does not like what...

How do you save the U.S. President from himself? Jack Ryan never thought he'd would have to ask this question. With the exceptional realism and authenticity, Clancy, constructs a novel of unrelenting suspense, a story as explosive as today's headlines. With one terrible act, the world is plunged into the ultimate nightmare. Forces collide. Shots are exchanged. What had seemed to be an isolated and horrible incident appears to each side as the...