| While the President, along with nearly all of Congress, is attending a ceremony on Capitol Hill, main character and former National Security Advisor Jack Ryan is at the White House, reluctantly swearing into a Vice Presidency which he would have more readily avoided. Ironically, this ultimately saves his life as the Capitol building is at that very instant the target of a terroristic act: a 747 passenger plane plummeting into it killing hundreds of government officials, leaving only 3 survivors, none of whom are the President nor a Member of Congress. Even more ironic, Jack is now forced to abandon his undesired Vice Presidency (which lasted all of five minutes) and become the new President of the United States, where he must perform the task of constructing almost an entirely new government and prevent a biological terroristic attack, all the while refusing to neither learn nor practice the game of politics which he so thoroughly despises. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of story - Dry-cynical Time/era of story: Spying/Terrorism Thriller Yes Cloak & Dagger Plotlets: War Thriller Yes Armed Forces: - Army Specific to - near future war Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book descript. of violence and chases - 10 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 % How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20 % Who's the terrorist enemy here? Main Character Gender - Male Profession/status: Age: - 40's-50's Ethnicity/Race Unusual characteristics: Main Adversary Identity: - an organization Age: - 40's-50's Profession/status: Motive of antagonist - revenge The antagonists are: - Arab terrorists How sensitive is this character? Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters Setting United States Yes The US: - Mid-Atlantic states Desert? Yes Desert: - hostile arabs Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths A lot of techno jargon? Yes Kind of jargon? - military technology Unusual forms of death - crushed Unusual form of death? Yes Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog |
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