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Clear and Present Danger
Jack Ryan is an intrepid CIA agent. The director of intelligence has recently fallen ill and Ryan takes over. He is called on by the President of the United States to solve the murder of businessman Hardin and his family upon their yacht. Ryan discovers that this seemingly respectable man actually has ties to the Columbian drug cartels and was killed for laundering 650 million dollars of drug money. The US government seizes the funds and unbeknownst ...
Command Authority
President Jack Ryan Sr. faces off against a Russian strongman determined to bring back the glory days of Russia and the renewal of the Cold War. Jack Ryan Sr. is the best-known Tom Clancy creation and now as President he faces his biggest challenge: a Russian government headed by an ambitious and treacherous leader. The book begins with a Russian attempt to invade nearby Estonia, and the invasion is halted by a NATO attack group headed by American tro...
Debt of Honor
Japan, now with nuclear weapons, tries to sabotage the US financial market and take over US islands that Japanese loyalists think are rightfully theirs as well as attacking a US fleet in the Pacific. Throw Jack Ryan, now the National Security Advisor, and both John Clark and Domingo Chavez into the mix, field intelligence officers for the CIA, into the mix, and you get a great book with an ending that will knock you off your seat....
Every Man a Tiger
Every Man A Tiger – remarkably demonstrates the ‘art of war' in the modern era of air power through the eyes of an exceptional commander. This amazing story is based on the career of Gen Chuck Horner as a fighter pilot in the ‘Operation Desert Storm' and ‘Operation Desert Shield'. The book will give readers an entirely different perspective of wars and military operations. It perhaps is the best-defended and thus most difficult air assault in history....

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Executive Orders
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 gover...
Hidden Agendas - Net Force
Computers are extremely advanced. They control nearly everything, and they are involved significantly in everyday life... Kat - a newly wed, college senior, was blown to unrecognizable pieces. Her body was turned into a pile of mush because someone had posted - in a public net room - an advanced bomb formula. Alex Michaels is in charge of Net Force. Net Force is a security team that enforces the laws of the net. He must find the person behind thi...
Net Force
Alex Micheals is the lieutenant commander of the FBI organzation, Net Force. The Commander, Steve Day, is murdered by hitmen, and Michaels is forced into the position of Commander. Michaels, along with the rest of Net Force, tries to hunt down Day's killers, but is sidetracked by a Russian computer hacker, bent on destroying the electronics world. Michaels is also in danger of assasins targeting him, as Day's succesor. ...
Night Moves - Net Force 3
Alex Michaels, head of FBI Net Force, is vacationing in London when he hears of his top programmer having a computer induced stroke. Michaels cuts his vacation short, and must work with Britain's MI6 in order to stop this threat. The threat comes from a mad scientist, who created a super computer powerful enough to break any code in the world. Michaels must stop him, before the computer causes havoc in the world....
Patriot Games
Jack Ryan is on vacation in England when he thwarts a terrorist attack on the royal family as a bystander. During the incident he is injured, and he kills a terrorist. When Jack returns to America his life returns to normal until an attack on him and his wife and child fails. Jack then decides to work with the CIA to help the find the terrorists. In the end of the book the royal family comes to the U.S. and visits the Ryan's. While they are at the Ryan'...
Rainbow Six
John Clarck works in 'Rainbow', a secret counter-terrorism unit. Soon after they set-up in their head-quarters, they are called to end a seizure in Bern. They manage to free everybody there. In the meantime, some people at Horizon are working on a virus code-named ‘Ebola Shiva'. Together with a ‘vaccine' it should kill all people in the world, except some people at Horizon. Some weeks after the incident in Bern, there is another one in Vienna, also ...

Tom Clancy list of books

Red Rabbit
The KGB have plotted to kill the Pope and Ryan must help a KGB agent out of the USSR who knows the truth. Set between Patriot Games and Hunt for Red October, this gives a glimpse into the early and young Jack Ryan. While the flashback to the arly 80s is fun, Clancy offers a conservative commentary on virtually everything. ...
Red Storm Rising
It is the late 1980s, and the USSR is in trouble. Muslim terrorists have destroyed the largest oil refinery in the Soviet Union, and in 6 months, the USSR will run out of oil. Faced with this disaster, the Politburo makes a fateful decision. To survive, the USSR needs to seize the oil in the Middle East. Before that can happen, NATO must be neutralized. Operation Red Storm begins. Skillfully distracting and deceiving the West for four months while its...
Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda
Sam Fisher is a spy (Splinter Cell) for a secret group in the United States of America called Third Echelon. The book picks up a year after the first book left off, and specialists in Third Echelon are trying to locate members of 'The Shop,' an international arms dealing ring that played a large part in the first novel. Sam Fisher is currently working on collecting information about The Shop, while Third Echelon is trying to investigate the deaths of man...
SSN
Fantastic book, as are all Clancy novels. This book is based on a game created by Clancy...While the game leaves much to be desired, the book is wonderful. There are 15 scenarios in the book, and all are action packed. While this is far from the norm for Clancy, it is a welcome change. There isn't much techno buildup, but there is wonderful action. I was pleasantly suprised that I liked this book, I figured that without the usual technical jargon, t...
State of Siege - Tom Clancy's Op-Center 6
"A group of U.N. officers attack on the U.N. Builkding in New York.They have taken Paul Hoods dauter and the other people in the U.N. security Councilhostage.Now paul has to get his kid back,and trying to stop these heart less terrorists"...
The Bear and the Dragon
In the city of Moscow, a notorious pimp is killed with a military weapon, by unknown assailants. In the city of Beijing, a political secretary begins an affair with a CIA agent posing as a Japanese salaryman. In Washington, D.C., President Jack Ryan and his cabinet receive news of an unprecedented simultaneous discovery in the wilds of Siberia: gold and oil. In just over a thousand pages of text, author Tom Clancy spins all three storylines into...

Tom Clancy novels

The Cardinal of the Kremlin
CIA analyst Jack Ryan tries to save the top agent the U.S. has planted in the Soviet government, even if it requires the cooperation of the head of the KGB. Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich Filitov is a legendary Russian hero of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) and a trusted adviser to the Defense Minister. He is also the most highly placed agent the CIA has ever had, codenamed CARDINAL. For decades in the Cold War, he has provided utterly invaluable in...
The Hunt For Red October
Russian Captain Marko Ramius is fed up with his country and its society, particularly because his wife was killed due to communism. He comes up with a plan to defect to the west, via a new Russian submarine known as Red October with a silent propulsion system. After Ramius fails to show up for a training exercise, the Russians start to wonder where the Red October went. They get the idea that Marko took it, therefore they place various Russian submarines...
The Sum of All Fears
After the discovery of a damaged Israeli nuclear bomb which had gone missing in 1973, Arabs, who got their hands on this weapon of mass destruction, seek the help of a German scientist who helps them replicate the bomb in order for it to be used against the United States, after a treaty which is meant to settle the war against Israel and Arabians displeases them. As the engineering process of the weapon is complete, the Arabs, plan to use the weapon ...
The Teeth of the Tiger
Clancy introduces three new characters tied to Jack Ryan; his son Jack Jr., and two nephews, the Caruso twins. These three young men form part of a new antiterrorist organization that is completely independent of all the formal government agencies. This private organization was established by Jack Ryan when he was president and has the specific mission of taking action against terrorist organizations unavailable to the formal government organizations. Th...
Without Remorse
After the death of his wife, in a car accident, John Kelly, 6 months after the unfortunate accident befriends a prostitute, Pamela Madden. As time goes by, the two are drawn closer to each other, and they're relationship forms into love. This forces Pam (Pamela) to tell John about her past and what she really is. Pam was a prostitute who was beaten everyday and forced to cooperate with her sadist via drugs. Not only that, there are other girls like Pam w...