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Tom Clancy
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Thomas Leo Tom Clancy Jr. was an American novelist and video game designer best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science story lines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print and his name was also used on movie scripts written by ghost writers, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community activities, Clancys literary career began in 1984 when he sold The Hunt for Red October for $5,000. His works, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Clancy died on October 1,2013, of an undisclosed illness. Clancy was born on April 12,1947, at Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and he was the second of three children to Thomas Clancy, who worked for the United States Postal Service, and Catherine Clancy, who worked in a stores credit department. His mother worked to him to the private Catholic Loyola Blakefield in Towson, Maryland. He then attended Loyola College in Baltimore, graduating in 1969 with a degree in English literature, while at university, he was president of the chess club. He joined the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps, however, he was ineligible to serve due to his nearsightedness, after graduating, he worked for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1973, he joined the O. F. Bowen Agency, in 1980, he purchased the insurance agency from his wifes grandmother and wrote novels in his spare time. While working at the agency, he wrote his debut novel. Clancys literary career began in 1982 when he started writing The Hunt for Red October and she believed Clancy had an innate storytelling ability, and his characters had this very witty dialogue. The publisher requested Clancy to cut numerous technical details, amounting to about 100 pages, Clancy, who had wanted to sell 5,000 copies, ended up selling over 45,000. The book was praised for its technical accuracy, which led to Clancys meeting several high-ranking officers in the U. S. military. All but two of Clancys solely written novels feature Jack Ryan or John Clark, the Cold War epic Red Storm Rising was co-written with fellow military-oriented author Larry Bond. The first NetForce novel, titled Net Force, was adapted as a 1999 TV movie starring Scott Bakula, the first Op-Center novel was released to coincide with a 1995 NBC television miniseries of the same name starring Harry Hamlin and a cast of stars. Though the miniseries did not continue, the series did, but later had little in common with the first TV miniseries other than the title. Clancy wrote several books about various branches of the U. S. He also branded several lines of books and video games with his name that are written by other authors, by 1988, Clancy had earned $1.3 million for The Hunt for Red October and had signed a $3 million contract for his next three books
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Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy character)
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Dr John Patrick Jack Ryan, Sr. KCVO, Ph. D. is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels and their respective film adaptations. Jack Ryan was born in Baltimore in 1950 and grew up there and he earned an NROTC commission in the Marines at Boston College. Medically discharged at the rank of 2ndLt following a helicopter crash and he met and married Caroline Cathy Mueller, a medical student and later an ophthalmic surgeon, with whom he had four children. He returned to academia, eventually accepting a position at the U. S. Naval Academy and he was later recommended to the CIA, eventually spending a short period there writing a position paper, as well as developing a counter-espionage mechanism. He returned to the academy and, while on a research trip to London. After his return to the States, he accepted a position with the CIA. He rose rapidly through the ranks in a variety of operations against the USSR. As DDI, he had political battles that led to him becoming President of the United States, Ryan had his background established in Patriot Games and Red Rabbit. He was born in 1950, the son of Emmet William Ryan, a Baltimore Police Department homicide lieutenant, the elder Ryan had served with the U. S. Armys 101st Airborne Division at the Battle of the Bulge. His mother, Catherine Burke Ryan, was a nurse, without Remorse mentioned that he had a sister, who lived in Seattle. S. While waiting for the Corps to assign him, he passed the Certified Public Accountant exam, after officer training at Marine Corps Base Quantico, he went on to serve as a platoon commander. The crash badly injured Ryans back, U. S. Navy surgeons, at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, inadequately repaired his back. This led to a recovery process after which, complete with a permanent disability and wearing a back brace. He passed his stockbrokers exam and took a position with Wall Street investment firm Merrill Lynchs Baltimore office and his parents died in a plane crash at Chicago Midway International Airport,19 months after his crash in Crete. He developed a fear of flying that persisted for years, the film version of The Hunt for Red October changed his education background to being a 1972 graduate of the US Naval Academy. Ryans story starts in Patriot Games and continues in Red Rabbit and he did so well that one of Merrill Lynchs senior vice presidents, Joe Muller, came to Baltimore to have dinner with him, with the objective of inviting him to the firms New York City headquarters. Also present is Mullers daughter Caroline, nicknamed Cathy, then a medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. They immediately fall in love and get engaged, one night, while having dinner with his fiancée, Ryan throws out his back
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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G. P. Putnams Sons is an American book publisher based in New York City, New York. Since 1996, it has been an imprint of the Penguin Group, the company began as Wiley & Putnam with the 1838 partnership between George Palmer Putnam and John Wiley, whose father had founded his own company in 1807. In 1841, Putnam went to London where he set up a branch office, in 1848, he returned to New York, where he dissolved the partnership with John Wiley and established G. Putnam Broadway, publishing a variety of works including quality illustrated books. Wiley began John Wiley, which is still an independent publisher to the present day, Putnam & Co. started Putnam’s Magazine with Charles Frederick Briggs as its editor. On George Palmer Putnam’s death in 1872, his sons George H. John and Irving inherited the business, son George H. Putnam became president of the firm, a position he held for the next fifty-two years. In 1874, the company established its own printing and manufacturing office, set up by John Putnam. On the death of George H. Putnam in 1930, the various Putnam heirs voted to merge the firm with Minton, George Palmer Putnams grandson, George P. Putnam, left the firm at that time. Melville Minton, the partner and sales manager of Minton Balch & Co. became acting president, in 1936, Putnam acquired the publisher Coward-McCann, and ran it as an imprint into the 1980s. Upon Melville Mintons death, his son Walter J. Minton took command of Putnams and brought the company to its lofty heights as one of the countrys most respected, in 1965, G. P. Putnams Sons acquired Berkley Books, a mass market paperback publishing house. Ten years later, Putnam Publishing Group and Berkley Publishing Group were sold to MCA, in 1982, Putnam acquired the respected childrens book publisher, Grosset & Dunlap, from Filmways. In 1996, the company was bought by the Penguin Group, the new owners merged Putnam/Berkley with Penguin USA to form Penguin Putnam Inc. who uses the name to publish the G. P. Putnams Sons Books for Young Readers, in 2013, Penguin merged with Bertelsmanns Random House, forming Penguin Random House. Some of the authors associated with G. P. Putnams Sons. Notes Bibliography About Putnam at Penguin Group
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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OCLC
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The Online Computer Library Center is a US-based nonprofit cooperative organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the worlds information and reducing information costs. It was founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center, OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog in the world. OCLC is funded mainly by the fees that libraries have to pay for its services, the group first met on July 5,1967 on the campus of the Ohio State University to sign the articles of incorporation for the nonprofit organization. The group hired Frederick G. Kilgour, a former Yale University medical school librarian, Kilgour wished to merge the latest information storage and retrieval system of the time, the computer, with the oldest, the library. The goal of network and database was to bring libraries together to cooperatively keep track of the worlds information in order to best serve researchers and scholars. The first library to do online cataloging through OCLC was the Alden Library at Ohio University on August 26,1971 and this was the first occurrence of online cataloging by any library worldwide. Membership in OCLC is based on use of services and contribution of data, between 1967 and 1977, OCLC membership was limited to institutions in Ohio, but in 1978, a new governance structure was established that allowed institutions from other states to join. In 2002, the structure was again modified to accommodate participation from outside the United States. As OCLC expanded services in the United States outside of Ohio, it relied on establishing strategic partnerships with networks, organizations that provided training, support, by 2008, there were 15 independent United States regional service providers. OCLC networks played a key role in OCLC governance, with networks electing delegates to serve on OCLC Members Council, in early 2009, OCLC negotiated new contracts with the former networks and opened a centralized support center. OCLC provides bibliographic, abstract and full-text information to anyone, OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat—the OCLC Online Union Catalog, the largest online public access catalog in the world. WorldCat has holding records from public and private libraries worldwide. org, in October 2005, the OCLC technical staff began a wiki project, WikiD, allowing readers to add commentary and structured-field information associated with any WorldCat record. The Online Computer Library Center acquired the trademark and copyrights associated with the Dewey Decimal Classification System when it bought Forest Press in 1988, a browser for books with their Dewey Decimal Classifications was available until July 2013, it was replaced by the Classify Service. S. The reference management service QuestionPoint provides libraries with tools to communicate with users and this around-the-clock reference service is provided by a cooperative of participating global libraries. OCLC has produced cards for members since 1971 with its shared online catalog. OCLC commercially sells software, e. g. CONTENTdm for managing digital collections, OCLC has been conducting research for the library community for more than 30 years. In accordance with its mission, OCLC makes its research outcomes known through various publications and these publications, including journal articles, reports, newsletters, and presentations, are available through the organizations website. The most recent publications are displayed first, and all archived resources, membership Reports – A number of significant reports on topics ranging from virtual reference in libraries to perceptions about library funding
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Threat Vector
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Threat Vector is a political thriller novel by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney published on December 4,2012. The novel features the former CIA agent and president Jack Ryan and his son Jack Ryan Jr. Abridged and unabridged audiobooks were released on CD in 2012, are individually assigned specific individuals to assassinate. Wei was close to suicide until his inevitable arrest is prevented by General Su Ke Qiang, Kovalenko chooses to work for the organization and his death is faked. In China, American sales manager Todd Wicks is blackmailed into working for the Guoanbu by means of a honeypot operation. In exchange for handing over a drive with a RAT embedded into it to Hendley Associates. John Clark decides to retire from the Campus on the account of his age, after a US Reaper drone on a mission in Pakistan is hacked and attacks friendly forces, President Ryan orders all UAVs to be locked on base. Jack Jr, Ding, and Gavin then return to the States, Tong, upon learning that Zha had been captured by the US, declares the Ghost Ship location to be compromised and relocates the office to Guangzhou. Adams neighbor is killed in a car bombing intended for Adam, meanwhile, after US negotiations with the PRC are unsuccessful and the threat of a military invasion of Taiwan seems imminent, an Indian frigate is rammed by a Chinese submarine. The submarine is attacked, resulting in the Chinese navy attacking and heavily damaging the Indian aircraft carrier Viraat, deployed to the region to protect its own interests. The Chinese then warn President Ryan to pull back the USS Ronald Reagan three hundred miles from China, a distance that would render the US Navy incapable of defending Taiwan. President Ryan then decides to back the USS Ronald Reagan. While in a CIA safe house under the guard of five CIA agents in Georgetown, Zha, meanwhile, Junior and Gavin pick up intelligence that Center has a data center located in Miami. Defying orders from Operations Director Sam Granger, Junior and Dominic go to Miami to check it out, after a brief gunfight and a hasty exit, Junior is put on suspension and begins to investigate how Center knew of his intentions to go to Miami. Upon realizing that Melanie had bugged his phone when he was not around, while following Melanie one day on her way to work, Jr witnesses and intervenes on an attempt by the Divine Sword unit to assassinate Melanie, killing one operative and seriously wounding another. Jr then calls in Clark for assistance and then leaves for Hong Kong to aid Adam Yao and it is there that they realize the faction is smaller than originally thought and less organized. Meanwhile, realizing that the Campus is aware of the existence of the Ghost Ship through the RAT drive, john Clark and Melanie witness the attacks and intervene, resulting in the killing in all but two Divine Sword operatives taken captive and the capture of Kovalenko. During the interrogation, Kovalenko reveals that Ghost Ship communicates with its overseas operates via encrypted network, with the help of Gavin Biery, Clark and Kovalenko are able to deduce that Dr. KK Tong is the head of Ghost Ship. Clark, upon realizing that Chavez, Caruso, and Driscoll are dangerously outnumbered, upon talking to FSB Director Stanislav Biryukov, Clark then leaves for Beijing with Russian military aid to aid in the assassination of Chairman Su
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Lou Diamond Phillips
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Lou Diamond Phillips is an American actor and director. His breakthrough came when he starred as Ritchie Valens in the drama film La Bamba. Phillips was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won an Independent Spirit Award and he made his Broadway debut with the 1996 revival of The King and I, earning a Tony Award nomination for his portrayal of King Mongkut of Siam. Phillips other notable films include Young Guns, Young Guns II, Courage Under Fire, Che and The 33. Phillips was born at the Subic Bay Naval Station in the Philippines, the son of Lucita Umayam Arañas and Gerald Amon Upchurch, Phillips was named after Marine legend Leland Lou Diamond. After his father died, he took his stepfathers surname Phillips as his own and he was raised in Texas, where he attended Flour Bluff High School in Corpus Christi, graduating in 1980. He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a BFA in Drama, the first low-budget film in which he starred was called Trespasses. Phillips big break came with the role in 1987s La Bamba. Prior to his breakthrough, he starred in the Miami Vice episode Red Tape. He plays Angel David Guzman, a gangster who is inspired by his math teacher, Jaime Escalante. Working to master the subject, he develops a friendship with his teacher, stand and Deliver was filmed before La Bamba, but it was released a year later. In the mid-1990s, Phillips was a vocalist with the Los Angeles-based rock group The Pipefitters, in 1998, he starred as Cisco, the counterpart of the main character Melvin Smiley, in the comedy-action movie The Big Hit. He later featured a minor role in the TV sitcom George Lopez as George Lopezs half-brother. Phillips starred in four episodes of the radio series The Twilight Zone, Vol.1, A Kind of a Stopwatch, Vol.3, The Parallel, Vol.10, Miniature, and Vol.12, Long Live Walter Jameson. On September 11,2007, Phillips joined the troupe for Lerner. He also played a role in the first season of the TV series 24 as secret government agent Mark DeSalvo, Phillips played the recurring role of FBI agent Ian Edgerton in the television series Numb3rs. Edgerton is an FBI tracker and sniper who works as an instructor at Quantico FBI Academy when he is not working a case in the field, Phillips won the second season of the NBC reality series, Im a Celebrity. Get Me Out of Here. Phillips currently hosts the weekly series An Officer and a Movie on The Military Channel, Phillips had a recurring role as Colonel Telford in the Stargate Universe television series during its two-season run on the SyFy channel 2009-2011
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Terrorist cell
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In a cell structure, each small group of people in the cell know the identities of only the people in their cell. It is also a used by criminal organizations, undercover operatives. Historically, clandestine organizations have avoided electronic communications, as signals intelligence is a strength of conventional militaries, in the context of tradecraft, covert and clandestine are not synonymous. As noted in the definition in an operation the identity of the sponsor is concealed, but in a clandestine operation. At least insofar as someone or something that is known to exist by at least two individuals can be concealed, put differently, clandestine means hidden, and covert means deniable. The adversary is aware that an activity is happening, but theoretically and hypothetically does not know who is doing it. Separating action from sponsorship is a technicality hopefully providing sufficient distance from the action so that the sponsor can claim ignorance in the event the covert plot is discovered. Clandestine activities, however, if successful, are unknown to the adversary. Espionage is espionage regardless of whether or not the intelligence and information provided to the sponsor - friend or foe - is of benefit or use or not, even if the information was intentionally misleading, fake or inaccurate the crime is in passing it to a foreign government. A sleeper cell refers to a cell, or isolated grouping of sleeper agents that lies dormant until it receives orders or decides to act, in World War II, Operation Jedburgh teams parachuted into occupied France to lead unconventional warfare units. They would be composed of two officers, one American or British, and the other French, the latter preferably from the area into which they landed, the third member of the team was a radio operator. Especially through the French member, they would contact trusted individuals in the area of operation, if the mission was sabotage, reconnaissance or espionage, there was no need to meet in large units. If the team was to carry out action, often an unwise mission unless an appreciable number of the locals had military experience. Even then, the hideouts of the leadership were known only to subcell leaders, the legitimacy of the Jedburgh team came from its known affiliation with Allied powers, and it was a structure more appropriate for UW than for truly clandestine operations. Also known as the Viet Cong, this grew from earlier anticolonial groups fighting the French. Its command, control, and communication techniques derived from the experiences of these insurgent groups. The group had support from North Vietnam, and, indirectly. It had parallel political and military structures, often overlapping, see Viet Cong and PAVN strategy and tactics
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Osama bin Laden
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He was a Saudi Arabian, a member of the wealthy bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite. Bin Laden was born to the family of billionaire Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden in Saudi Arabia and he studied at university in the country until 1979, when he joined Mujahideen forces in Pakistan fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He helped to fund the Mujahideen by funneling arms, money and fighters from the Arab world into Afghanistan and he was banished from Saudi Arabia in 1992, and shifted his base to Sudan, until U. S. pressure forced him to leave Sudan in 1996. After establishing a new base in Afghanistan, he declared a war against the United States, initiating a series of bombings and related attacks. Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigations lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, from 2001 to 2011, bin Laden was a major target of the War on Terror, as the FBI placed a $25 million bounty on him in their search for him. S. There is no accepted standard for transliterating Arabic words and Arabic names into English, however. The FBI and Central Intelligence Agency, as well as other U. S. governmental agencies, have used either Usama bin Laden or Usama bin Ladin, less common renderings include Ussamah bin Ladin and, in the French-language media, Oussama ben Laden. Other spellings include Binladen or, as used by his family in the West, the decapitalization of bin is based on the convention of leaving short prepositions, articles, and patronymics uncapitalized in surnames, the nasab bin means son of. The spellings with o and e come from a Persian-influenced pronunciation also used in Afghanistan, Osama bin Ladens full name, Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, means Osama, son of Mohammed, son of Awad, son of Laden. The Arabic linguistic convention would be to refer to him as Osama or Osama bin Laden, not bin Laden alone, as bin Laden is a patronymic, not a surname in the Western manner. According to bin Ladens son Omar bin Laden, the familys surname is al-Qahtani. Osama bin Laden had also assumed the kunyah Abū Abdāllāh and his admirers have referred to him by several nicknames, including the Prince or Emir, the Sheik, the Jihadist Sheik or Sheik al-Mujahid, Hajj, and the Director. The word usāmah means lion, earning him the nicknames Lion and Lion Sheik, in a 1998 interview, bin Laden gave his birth date as March 10,1957. Mohammed bin Laden divorced Hamida soon after Osama bin Laden was born, Mohammed recommended Hamida to Mohammed al-Attas, an associate. Al-Attas married Hamida in the late 1950s or early 1960s, the couple had four children, and bin Laden lived in the new household with three half-brothers and one half-sister. The bin Laden family made $5 billion in the construction industry, Bin Laden was raised as a devout Sunni Muslim. From 1968 to 1976, he attended the élite secular Al-Thager Model School and he studied economics and business administration at King Abdulaziz University. Some reports suggest he earned a degree in engineering in 1979
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Jack Ryan, Sr.
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Dr John Patrick Jack Ryan, Sr. KCVO, Ph. D. is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels and their respective film adaptations. Jack Ryan was born in Baltimore in 1950 and grew up there and he earned an NROTC commission in the Marines at Boston College. Medically discharged at the rank of 2ndLt following a helicopter crash and he met and married Caroline Cathy Mueller, a medical student and later an ophthalmic surgeon, with whom he had four children. He returned to academia, eventually accepting a position at the U. S. Naval Academy and he was later recommended to the CIA, eventually spending a short period there writing a position paper, as well as developing a counter-espionage mechanism. He returned to the academy and, while on a research trip to London. After his return to the States, he accepted a position with the CIA. He rose rapidly through the ranks in a variety of operations against the USSR. As DDI, he had political battles that led to him becoming President of the United States, Ryan had his background established in Patriot Games and Red Rabbit. He was born in 1950, the son of Emmet William Ryan, a Baltimore Police Department homicide lieutenant, the elder Ryan had served with the U. S. Armys 101st Airborne Division at the Battle of the Bulge. His mother, Catherine Burke Ryan, was a nurse, without Remorse mentioned that he had a sister, who lived in Seattle. S. While waiting for the Corps to assign him, he passed the Certified Public Accountant exam, after officer training at Marine Corps Base Quantico, he went on to serve as a platoon commander. The crash badly injured Ryans back, U. S. Navy surgeons, at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, inadequately repaired his back. This led to a recovery process after which, complete with a permanent disability and wearing a back brace. He passed his stockbrokers exam and took a position with Wall Street investment firm Merrill Lynchs Baltimore office and his parents died in a plane crash at Chicago Midway International Airport,19 months after his crash in Crete. He developed a fear of flying that persisted for years, the film version of The Hunt for Red October changed his education background to being a 1972 graduate of the US Naval Academy. Ryans story starts in Patriot Games and continues in Red Rabbit and he did so well that one of Merrill Lynchs senior vice presidents, Joe Muller, came to Baltimore to have dinner with him, with the objective of inviting him to the firms New York City headquarters. Also present is Mullers daughter Caroline, nicknamed Cathy, then a medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. They immediately fall in love and get engaged, one night, while having dinner with his fiancée, Ryan throws out his back
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Guantanamo Bay
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Guantánamo Bay is a bay located in Guantánamo Province at the southeastern end of Cuba. It is the largest harbor on the side of the island. The United States assumed territorial control over the portion of Guantánamo Bay under the 1903 Lease agreement. The United States exercises complete jurisdiction and control over this territory, the current government of Cuba regards the U. S. presence in Guantánamo Bay as illegal and insists the Cuban–American Treaty was obtained by threat of force and is in violation of international law. Some legal scholars judge that the lease may be voidable and it is the home of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and the Guantanamo Bay detention camp located within the base, which are both governed by the United States. The bay was called Guantánamo by its inhabitants, the Taínos. Christopher Columbus landed in 1494, naming it Puerto Grande, on landing, Columbus crew found Taíno fishermen preparing a feast for the local chieftain. When Spanish settlers took control of Cuba, the bay became a harbor on the south side of the island. The bay was known as Cumberland Bay when the British seized it in 1741. British Adm. Edward Vernon arrived with a force of eight warships and 4,000 soldiers with plans to march on Santiago de Cuba, however, he was defeated by local guerrilla forces of creole and Spaniards and forced to withdraw or face becoming a prisoner. In late 1760, boats from HMS Trent and HMS Boreas cut out the French privateers Vainquer and Mackau, the French were also forced to burn the Guespe, another privateer, to prevent her capture. During the Spanish–American War, the U. S. Navy fleet attacking Santiago needed shelter from the hurricane season. They chose Guantánamo because of its excellent harbor, marines landed with naval support in the 1898 invasion of Guantánamo Bay. As they moved inland, however, Spanish resistance increased and the required support from Cuban scouts. Guantanamo Bay was used as a center for asylum seekers. Within six months the USA had interned over 30,000 Haitian refugees in Guantanamo, eventually the USA would admit 10,747 of the Haitians to refugee status in the United States. Most of the refugees were housed in a tent city on the airstrip that would later be used to house the complex used for the Guantanamo military commissions. The refugees who represented discipline or security problems were held on the site that would later become Camp XRay, in August 1994 rioting broke out in the detention camps in which 20 U. S. military police and 45 Haitians were injured
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Stasi
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It has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies to have ever existed. The Stasi was headquartered in East Berlin, with a complex in Berlin-Lichtenberg. The Stasi motto was Schild und Schwert der Partei, referring to the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Erich Mielke was its longest-serving chief, in power for thirty-two of the GDRs forty years of existence. Its Main Directorate for Reconnaissance was responsible for espionage and for conducting covert operations in foreign countries. Under its long-time head Markus Wolf, this gained a reputation as one of the most effective intelligence agencies of the Cold War. Numerous Stasi officials were prosecuted for their crimes after 1990, the Stasi was founded on 8 February 1950. Wilhelm Zaisser was the first Minister of State Security of the GDR, Zaisser tried to depose SED General Secretary Walter Ulbricht after the June 1953 uprising, but was instead removed by Ulbricht and replaced with Ernst Wollweber thereafter. Wollweber resigned in 1957 after clashes with Ulbricht and Erich Honecker, in 1957, Markus Wolf became head of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung, the foreign intelligence section of the Stasi. As intelligence chief, Wolf achieved great success in penetrating the government, political, the most influential case was that of Günter Guillaume, which led to the downfall of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt in May 1974. In 1986, Wolf retired and was succeeded by Werner Grossmann, in 1978, Mielke formally granted KGB officers in East Germany the same rights and powers that they enjoyed in the Soviet Union. The Ministry for State Security also included the following entities, Administration 12 was responsible for the surveillance of mail, Administration 2000 was responsible for the reliability of National Peoples Army personnel. Administration 2000 operated a secret, unofficial network of informants within the NVA, Administration for Security of Heavy Industry and Research and Main Administration for Security of the Economy, protection against sabotage or espionage. Division of Garbage Analysis, was responsible for analyzing garbage for any suspect western foods and/or materials, Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment, the armed force at disposal of the ministry, named for the founder of the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police. The members of regiment, who served at least three years, were responsible for protecting high government and party buildings and personnel. The regiment was composed of six motorized rifle battalions, one artillery battalion and its equipment included PSZH-IV armored personnel carriers,120 mm mortars,85 mm and 100 mm antitank guns, ZU-23 antiaircraft guns, and helicopters. A Swiss source reported in 1986 that the troops of the Ministry of State Security also had commando units similar to the Soviet Unions Spetsnaz GRU forces. These East German units were said to wear the uniform of the airborne troops and they also wore the sleeve stripe of the Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment. Main Administration for Struggle Against Suspicious Persons was charged with the surveillance of foreigners—particularly from the West—legally traveling or residing within the country and this included the diplomatic community, tourists, and official guests
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Executive Orders
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Executive Orders is a political and military thriller novel by Tom Clancy. It was published in 1996, and is a part of the Jack Ryan universe. Following the conclusion of Debt of Honor, Jack Ryan is sworn in as President of the United States minutes after becoming Vice President, with nearly every executive, legislative, and judicial figure deceased, Ryan is left to represent the United States by himself. Ryan deals with various hardships and crises, from reconstituting the House, when the Iraqi president is assassinated by an Iranian agent, the Ayatollah Mahmoud Haji Daryaei takes advantage of the power vacuum by launching an unopposed invasion of Iraq. The Ayatollah unites the two countries, calling it the United Islamic Republic, or UIR, with Indian and Chinese assistance, the UIR makes a bid for superpower status by attacking Saudi Arabia. Following a series of Iranian-backed terrorist attacks, including the release of an Ebola strain, meanwhile, China accidentally shoots down a Taiwanese airliner. As a result of the Ebola attack, Ryan declares martial law, however, the attack becomes only a limited success for the UIR, since the virus is so deadly that it cannot spread effectively. The tide soon turns against the UIR, with its forces being defeated against the firepower of the U. S. President Ryan sends Ding Chavez and John Clark into the UIR to assassinate Daryaei. S. to face charges, kealtys challenge to President Ryans legitimacy fails in court. In the aftermath of the crisis, appreciation of the unelected president grows, in a press conference in the White House press room, Ryan says he will seek election to the office of President of the United States
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Burj Khalifa
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The Burj Khalifa, known as the Burj Dubai before its inauguration, is a megatall skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It has a height of 828 m, and with its antenna included, it stands a total height of 829.8 m, making it the tallest building. Construction of the Burj Khalifa began in 2004, with the exterior completed 5 years later in 2009, the primary structure is reinforced concrete. The building was opened in 2010 as part of a new development called Downtown Dubai and it is designed to be the centrepiece of large-scale, mixed-use development. The decision to build the building is based on the governments decision to diversify from an oil-based economy. The building was named in honour of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi, the building broke numerous height records, including its designation as the tallest tower in the world. Burj Khalifa was designed by Adrian Smith, then of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, whose firm designed the Willis Tower, Hyder Consulting was chosen to be the supervising engineer with NORR Group Consultants International Limited chosen to supervise the architecture of the project. The design is derived from the Islamic architecture of the region, the Y-shaped tripartite floor geometry is designed to optimize residential and hotel space. A buttressed central core and wings are used to support the height of the building, although this design was derived from Tower Palace III, the Burj Khalifa’s central core houses all vertical transportation with the exception of egress stairs within each of the wings. The structure also features a system which is designed to withstand Dubais hot summer temperatures. It contains a total of 57 elevators and 8 escalators, critical reception to Burj Khalifa has been generally positive, and the building has received many awards. However, the issues during construction were controversial, since the building was built primarily by migrant workers from South Asia with several allegations of mistreatment. Poor working conditions are common, as the result of the lack of minimum wage laws in the United Arab Emirates, several instances of suicides have been reported, which is not uncommon for migrant construction workers in Dubai despite safety precautions in place. Construction began on 6 January 2004, with the exterior of the completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010, and is part of the new 2 km2 development called Downtown Dubai at the First Interchange along Sheikh Zayed Road, near Dubais main business district. The towers architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago, with Adrian Smith as chief architect, the primary contractor was Samsung C&T of South Korea. The towers construction was done by the division of Al Ghurair Investment group. The decision to build Burj Khalifa is reportedly based on the decision to diversify from an oil-based economy to one that is service
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Jack Ryan (character)
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Dr John Patrick Jack Ryan, Sr. KCVO, Ph. D. is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels and their respective film adaptations. Jack Ryan was born in Baltimore in 1950 and grew up there and he earned an NROTC commission in the Marines at Boston College. Medically discharged at the rank of 2ndLt following a helicopter crash and he met and married Caroline Cathy Mueller, a medical student and later an ophthalmic surgeon, with whom he had four children. He returned to academia, eventually accepting a position at the U. S. Naval Academy and he was later recommended to the CIA, eventually spending a short period there writing a position paper, as well as developing a counter-espionage mechanism. He returned to the academy and, while on a research trip to London. After his return to the States, he accepted a position with the CIA. He rose rapidly through the ranks in a variety of operations against the USSR. As DDI, he had political battles that led to him becoming President of the United States, Ryan had his background established in Patriot Games and Red Rabbit. He was born in 1950, the son of Emmet William Ryan, a Baltimore Police Department homicide lieutenant, the elder Ryan had served with the U. S. Armys 101st Airborne Division at the Battle of the Bulge. His mother, Catherine Burke Ryan, was a nurse, without Remorse mentioned that he had a sister, who lived in Seattle. S. While waiting for the Corps to assign him, he passed the Certified Public Accountant exam, after officer training at Marine Corps Base Quantico, he went on to serve as a platoon commander. The crash badly injured Ryans back, U. S. Navy surgeons, at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, inadequately repaired his back. This led to a recovery process after which, complete with a permanent disability and wearing a back brace. He passed his stockbrokers exam and took a position with Wall Street investment firm Merrill Lynchs Baltimore office and his parents died in a plane crash at Chicago Midway International Airport,19 months after his crash in Crete. He developed a fear of flying that persisted for years, the film version of The Hunt for Red October changed his education background to being a 1972 graduate of the US Naval Academy. Ryans story starts in Patriot Games and continues in Red Rabbit and he did so well that one of Merrill Lynchs senior vice presidents, Joe Muller, came to Baltimore to have dinner with him, with the objective of inviting him to the firms New York City headquarters. Also present is Mullers daughter Caroline, nicknamed Cathy, then a medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. They immediately fall in love and get engaged, one night, while having dinner with his fiancée, Ryan throws out his back
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The Hunt for Red October
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The Hunt for Red October was Tom Clancys 1984 debut novel. It was loosely inspired by the mutiny on the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy in 1975, the novel was originally published by the U. S. Naval Institute Press—one of the first fictional works it ever published, and still its most successful. The result is a weapon platform that is capable of sneaking its way into American waters. The strategic value of Red October was not lost upon Ramius and his wife, Natalia, died at the hands of a doctor who was incompetent and intoxicated, however, the doctor escaped punishment because he was the son of a Politburo member. As the ship leaves the shipyard at Polyarny, Ramius kills Ivan Putin, his political officer, before sailing, Ramius had sent a letter to Admiral Yuri Padorin, Natalias uncle, brazenly stating his intention to defect. The Soviet Northern Fleet therefore sails out to sink Red October under the pretext of a search and rescue mission. Meanwhile, Jack Ryan, a high-level CIA analyst and a former Marine, flies from London to Langley, Virginia, to deliver MI6s photographs of Red October to the Deputy Director of Intelligence. Ryan consults a friend at the U. S. Naval Academy, ex-submariner Skip Tyler, Red October passes near USS Dallas, a Los Angeles class submarine under the command of Cdr. Bart Mancuso, which is patrolling the entrance of a used by Soviet submarines in the Reykjanes Ridge off Iceland. Dallas hears the sound of the drive but does not identify it as a submarine. Putting information about Ramiuss letter together with the subsequent launch of the entire Northern Fleet, the U. S. military reluctantly agrees, while planning for contingencies in case the Soviet fleet has intentions other than those inferred. As tensions rise between the U. S. and Soviet fleets, the crew of Dallas analyzes sonar tapes of Red October, Ryan must contact Ramius to prevent the loss of the submarine and her revolutionary technology. In order to convince the Soviets that Red October has been destroyed, Ramius and his officers stay behind, claiming they are about to scuttle the submarine to prevent it getting into the hands of the Americans. A decommissioned U. S. ballistic missile submarine, the USS Ethan Allen, is blown up underwater as a deception, a depth gauge taken from the main instrument panel of Red October is made to appear as if it had been salvaged from the wreckage. Meanwhile, Ryan, Captain Mancuso, some of his crew, the deception efforts succeed in convincing Soviet observers that Red October has been lost. Loginov opens fire with his weapon, killing Captain Lieutenant Kamarov and seriously wounding Ramius, Ryan attempts to persuade the fiercely patriotic Loginov to surrender rather than die in the explosion, but Loginov refuses. Ryan manages to kill Loginov in the missile compartment. Captain Viktor Tupolov, a student of Ramius and commander of the Soviet Alfa-class attack submarine V. K. Konovalov, has been trailing what he initially believes is an Ohio-class vessel
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Patriot Games
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Patriot Games is a novel by Tom Clancy. It is chronologically the first book focusing on CIA analyst Jack Ryan and it is the indirect sequel to Without Remorse. In London, a kidnapping is attempted on the Mall, Jack Ryan manages to disrupt the attempt by force, saving the Prince and Princess of Wales, along with their infant firstborn son, from the attackers. These attackers are members of an ultra-radical Irish terrorist group splintered from the Provisional Irish Republican Army, ideologically, their group subscribes to Maoism, and they receive support from Libya. In the novel the organization is referred to as the Movement. The assassin sent to kill Ryan is intercepted before he manages to complete his task, however, Ryans pregnant wife Cathy and daughter Sally are injured when Sean Miller causes their car to crash on a freeway. The two casualties are flown by helicopter to the University of Maryland Medical Center, after the attack on his family, Jack accepts an offer from the Central Intelligence Agency to start working as an analyst at the agencys headquarters. Later, the Prince and Princess of Wales come to visit Ryan at his house in Maryland, ULA operatives make use of the fact that one of their key allies in the Movement is a Bell Atlantic telephone maintenance technician. They pose as fellow repairmen to make an attack on Ryan and his family. Although several guards, including Secret Service personnel, are killed, after a firefight and chase, Ryan, his friend Robby Jackson, and the Prince manage to kill or capture the terrorists. They receive assistance from police, US Marines, and sailors from the U. S. Naval Academy. The FBI Hostage Rescue Team is sent by helicopter, but by the time they arrive, although the ultimate fate of the terrorists is not stated in Patriot Games, the next novel reveals that all who survived the attack were condemned to death and executed by gas chamber. Ryan arrives at Bethesda after the final arrest to be with Cathy for the birth of their son, the novel was adapted as a feature film in 1992. It stars Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan and Sean Bean as Sean Miller, during the filming, an accident occurred during the final scene -- the struggle on the boat which ends in the ocean. Ford inadvertently struck Bean above the eyebrow with a boat hook. Although Bean recovered completely, the scar still remains
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The Cardinal of the Kremlin
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The Cardinal of the Kremlin is a novel by Tom Clancy, featuring his character Jack Ryan. The SDI systems discussed in the book are based on real-world systems, in the book, satellite photos are shown of the Dushanbe Complex called Bright Star in the novel. These images are of an actual contemporary Soviet mountaintop site of then-disputed function called Okno, the site is referenced in the Federation of American Scientists Space Policy Project Special Weapons Monitor section. CIA analyst Jack Ryan attends a conference in Moscow as part of an American delegation to the Soviet Union. As a result, Filitov has been passing political, technical, the U. S. discovers through National Technical Means that the Soviets are working on an ABM defense system codenamed Bright Star, based at Dushanbe in Tajikistan. Emilio Ortiz, a CIA liaison, is sent to aid Mujaheddin rebels in the region, the Archer determines that the Soviet installation is a threat to him and his people, and tasks his group with attacking and pillaging the facility. In the end, the guerrillas destroy a large amount of Soviet equipment, however, the rebels suffer horrendous losses, including the death of the Archer. Ryan travels to New Mexico to meet with the countrys top SDI researcher, U. S. Army Major Alan Gregory, Gregory lives with another scientist, Candi Long, who is working on adaptive optics for use in the development of laser weaponry. A lesbian KGB agent, Bea Taussig—who has unluckily fallen in love with Long—describes Gregory and his work to her KGB handler, the KGB launches a plan to kidnap and debrief Gregory. Filitov is arrested after his work for the CIA is discovered, however, Ryan concocts a plan to both secure the return of Filitov and arrange the defection of the sitting KGB chairman, Nikolay Borissovich Gerasimov. Gerasimov is angling to take over as General Secretary in the wake of Filitovs arrest, Ryan schemes to go public with the prior capture of the Soviet submarine Red October, banking on the political instability of the Soviet Politburo. He plans for Filitov and Gerasimov to be exfiltrated on the American delegations aircraft and he reveals this in a private meeting with Gerasimov, forcing the KGB chairmans hand. S. received when the Red October crew defected. Their plans are foiled when the FBI sends in the Hostage Rescue Team to retrieve Gregory, Ryan informs Gerasimov of the failed operation, forcing the enraged chairman to accept Ryans defection offer. Taussig is arrested when she attempts to seduce Long after Gregory is reported kidnapped, the flipped Gerasimov fetches Filitov from his confinement. The three make their way to Sheremetyevo Airport, awaiting the departure of the American delegation, as Gerasimov and Filitov escape, Ryan allows himself to be captured by Golovko, banking on his diplomatic status to protect him from harm. Ryan returns to the United States, where he and several others attend the funeral of Filitov, Filitov is buried at Camp David, within twenty miles of the Antietam battlefield. A Soviet military attaché attending the funeral questions why Filitov would be buried so close to American soldiers, Ryan, always working to keep the peace, explains to him, One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesnt that give us some common ground and it was to involve Harrison Ford and William Shatner
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Clear and Present Danger
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Before the 20th century, most free speech issues involved prior restraint. Starting in the early 1900s, the Supreme Court began to consider cases in which persons were punished after speaking or publishing, the primary legal test used in the United States to determine if speech could be criminalized was the bad tendency test. Rooted in English common law, the test permitted speech to be outlawed if it had a tendency to harm public welfare, antiwar protests during World War I gave rise to several important free speech cases related to sedition and inciting violence. In the 1919 case Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court held that an antiwar activist did not have a First Amendment right to draft resistance. Holmes later wrote that he intended the clear and present danger test to refine, not replace and it is a question of proximity and degree. In Abrams, Holmes and Justice Brandeis dissented and encouraged the use of the clear and present test, in 1925s Gitlow v. New York, the Court extended the First Amendment to the states, and upheld the conviction of Gitlow for publishing the Left Wing Manifesto. Brandeis and Holmes again promoted the clear and present danger test, after Whitney, the bad tendency test continued to be used by the Court in cases such 1931s Stromberg v. California, which held that a 1919 California statute banning red flags was unconstitutional. The clear and present danger test was invoked by the majority in the 1940 Thornhill v. Alabama decision in which a state antipicketing law was invalidated. In May 1950, one month before the court heard oral arguments in the Dennis v. United States case. In that case, the Court considered the clear and present danger test, the federal appeals court heard oral arguments in the CPUSA case on June 21–23,1950. Judge Learned Hand considered the clear and present danger test, the defendants appealed the Second Circuits decision to the Supreme Court in Dennis v. United States. The 6–2 decision was issued on June 4,1951, in his opinion, Vinson endorsed the balancing approach used by Judge Hand, Chief Judge Learned Hand. Interpreted the phrase as follows, In each case, must ask whether the gravity of the evil, discounted by its improbability and we adopt this statement of the rule. As articulated by Chief Judge Hand, it is as succinct and it takes into consideration those factors which we deem relevant, and relates their significances. More we cannot expect from words, V. Hicklin and incorporated into American jurisprudence in the 1904 Supreme Court case U. S. ex rel. United States and Debs v. United States decisions, United States just six months after Schenck. Significantly unlike Abrams, the cases of Schenck, Frohwerk, for two decades after the Dennis decision, free speech issues related to advocacy of violence were decided using balancing tests such as the one initially articulated in Dennis. Killian, Johnny H. Costello, George, Thomas, Kenneth R.48, boudin, Seditious Doctrines and the Clear and Present Danger Rule, Part I, Virginia Law Review, vol
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The Sum of All Fears
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The Sum of All Fears is a best-selling thriller novel by Tom Clancy and part of the Jack Ryan universe. It was the fourth of Clancys Jack Ryan books to be turned into a film, the book was released days before the August Coup in 1991, which signaled the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The title is a reference to war and to the plot by the novels antagonists to reconstruct a lost nuclear weapon. During the Yom Kippur War, the Israeli Defense Force prepares to conduct a nuclear strike to stave off defeat. The necessity for the strike is averted, but an Israeli copy of a Mark 12 nuclear bomb is left on an A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft. The nuclear weapon is lost, buried in the field of a Druze farmer, eighteen years later, an Israeli captain shoots and kills a Palestinian activist during a peaceful public demonstration. The United States finds itself unable to diplomatically defend Israel, yet knows it cannot withdraw its support without risk of destabilizing the Middle East, following the advice of Jack Ryan, the U. S. As a nod to Israel, the U. S. Army supplies the IDF with more sophisticated equipment, to everyones surprise, Ryans plan seems to work. With their religious contentions appeased, the factions in the Middle East find it easier to negotiate their disputes. However, National Security Advisor Elizabeth Elliott holds a grudge against Ryan and attempts to discredit him, with her encouragement, Fowler disavows Ryans role in the peace settlement. Unsatisfied, Elliott then engineers a campaign accusing Ryan of engaging in an extramarital affair. Jacks friends, John Clark and Domingo Chavez, convince Ryans wife Cathy that the allegations are false, Ryan decides to retire from the CIA, but not before he puts together a covert operation to uncover corrupt dealings between Japanese and Mexican government officials. With Fromms expertise, the terrorists enhance the weapon and turn it into a thermonuclear device, thinking his work is done, the Palestinians kill Fromm. However, Fromm had not yet told them some of the material he planned to use needed to be purified first. The Palestinians finish the assembly and when it is used. However, almost everyone at the Super Bowl is killed, including the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, with the attacks in Berlin, the United States briefly assumes DEFCON-1 status as Fowler and Elliott prepare for a nuclear war. The crisis is averted by Ryan, who learns of the origin for the bombs plutonium, gains access to the hot line. When the terrorists are captured and interrogated by Clark in Mexico City, President Fowler orders the Ayatollahs residence in the holy city of Qom to be destroyed by a nuclear strike
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Without Remorse
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Without Remorse is a thriller novel published in 1993 by Tom Clancy and is a part of the Jack Ryan universe series. While not the first novel of the series to be published, the main setting of the book is set during the Vietnam War, in the American city of Baltimore. The book focuses on the development of one of Clancys recurring characters, John Kelly/John Clark, the book serves to give a history of Kellys life, and explains how he becomes John Clark. The book alternates between two story arcs. John Kelly is enlisted by the military and CIA to plan, meanwhile, in the United States, a heroin ring in Baltimore uses enslaved prostitutes as drug mules. One of the escapes and becomes Kellys girlfriend, she is subsequently recaptured, tortured. Kelly embarks on a mission of revenge against the gang, but must stay one step ahead of the police investigation, in both missions, Kelly struggles with his questions about the moral use of violence and watches the human toll of war abroad and the drug epidemic at home. He also contends with traitors whose personal agendas put countless innocents at risk, the prologue of the story occurs in late 1970. John Kelly participates in an Underwater Demolition Teams destruction of an oil rig irreparably damaged by Hurricane Camille the previous year, while driving to pick him up after the job, Kellys pregnant wife Patricia is killed in a car accident. Meanwhile, Robin Zacharias, an Air Force colonel and F-105 pilot, is shot down during a Wild Weasel strike over North Vietnam, the story moves to late spring in the first chapter. Robin is captured and reported killed in action and he is transferred to a secret POW camp administered by the NVA. The purpose of the camp is to aid from the Soviet Union. Each of the high-ranking prisoners possesses highly classified technical knowledge and has already declared dead, allowing the Soviets to interrogate them. Conducting the interrogation is Colonel Nikolai Yevgenievich Kolya Grishanov and he is a humane man who lobbies his government to have them brought to the Soviet Union in safety, but friction between the two allies is leading the North Vietnamese to decide to kill the POWs. While Zacharias is being moved to his cell, a U. S. target drone photographs him, Admiral Dutch Maxwell recognizes the pilot, who had helped develop the Strategic Air Commands war plans. This helps Maxwell justify an operation to send Marines into North Vietnam to rescue the POWs, still struggling with the loss of his wife, Kelly meets a girl named Pamela Madden, who has escaped from prostitution and serving as a mule for a drug dealer named Henry Tucker. Kelly becomes romantically involved with Pam and he also befriends two doctors, Sam and Sarah Rosen, who are both professors at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. With the help of the Rosens, Kelly helps Pam recover from her addiction to barbiturates, while bringing her into the city for treatment, Kelly becomes curious about her past
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Debt of Honor
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Debt of Honor is a thriller novel by Tom Clancy. It is a continuation of the series featuring his character Jack Ryan, in this installment, Ryan has become the National Security Advisor when the Japanese government goes to war with the United States. One of the sub-plots in this novel would later part of the main plot of Clancys later novel The Bear. In New York City, Japanese industrialist Raizo Yamata purchases a controlling interest in a U. S. mutual fund group. He flies to Saipan and visits Banzai Cliff — the site of his parents suicide during the U. S. invasion of the island at the close of World War II — to buy a tract of land. Meanwhile, in eastern Tennessee, a car accident involving two Japanese-made vehicles leads to the deaths of six people, revelations about manufacturing and shipping errors that led to the deaths stir long-standing resentment against Japans protectionist trade policies. As trade negotiations between the United States and Japan grind to a halt, Congress passes a law enabling the U. S. to mirror the trade practices of the countries from which it imports goods. The bill is used to reciprocate Japans non-tariff barriers, cutting off the U. S. export markets upon which the Japanese economy depends. Facing an economic crisis, Japans ruling corporate cabal, led by Yamata, along with covert support from China and India, they plot to curtail the U. S. presence in the Pacific and re-establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In the wake of these developments, Jack Ryan is recruited as National Security Advisor by President Roger Durling, meanwhile, CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez are sent to Japan to reactivate a former KGB commercial spy network in order to gain intelligence. Meanwhile, Japan has covertly developed nuclear weapons and with SS-18 designs bought from the Soviet Union has fabricated and deployed several ICBMs, Japan launches the first phase of its assault, sending Self-Defense Force units to occupy the Mariana Islands, specifically Saipan and Guam. The invasion, with the troops transported by commercial airliners, is virtually bloodless, meanwhile, during a joint military exercise, Japanese ships accidentally launch torpedoes at the U. S. Pacific Fleet, destroying two submarines and crippling two aircraft carriers, the Enterprise and the John C, as a result, the U. S. capability to project power into the western Pacific is drastically reduced. An immediate retaliation is forestalled by the phase of the Japanese offensive. Even as the offensive begins, Japan engineers the collapse of the U. S. The Japanese also assassinate the chairman of the Federal Reserve, with a massive economic crisis and subsequent mass panic, the Japanese hope that the U. S. will be too distracted to quickly respond to Japans military actions. Japan immediately sues for peace, offering international talks and seemingly free elections in the Marianas to delay a U. S. response, negotiators secretly reveal to the U. S. that Japan has obtained nuclear ballistic missile capability. With two of the U. S. Navys twelve carriers disabled, and the rest pinned down by a mix of maintenance and international crises elsewhere, despite his typical focus on military issues, Ryan advises President Durling to deal with the economic crisis first
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Rainbow Six (novel)
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Rainbow Six is a techno-thriller novel written by Tom Clancy. It focuses on John Clark, Ding Chavez, and a fictional multi-national counterterrorist unit codenamed Rainbow, rather than Jack Ryan, there is a series of video games by the same name. Several NATO countries have organized an elite counter terrorist unit named Rainbow composed of the best soldiers from the militaries of several nations. Based in Hereford, England, the team is led by John Clark, Rainbow is blacker than black with its American funding directed through the U. S. Interior Department by the U. S. Congress, then through U. S. Defense Departments Office of Special Projects, fewer than a hundred people in the U. S. government know that Rainbow exists. The idea for the title comes from the United States Color-coded War Plans, specifically the Rainbow Plans of the 1930s, in these plans, various countries were given a color code, and the Rainbow Plans outlined strategies for dealing with potential conflicts between coalitions of countries. Rainbow Five, for instance, which is discussed extensively in the Plan Dog memo, for Rainbow Six, the aggressor is international terrorists. Rainbow Six also refers to John Clark, the leader of Rainbow, additionally the title symbolizes the multi-national nature of the elite unit, Like a rainbow contains many colors, the unit contains many nationalities. The first deployment of Rainbow involves Chavez squad in the rescue of hostages during a bank robbery in Bern. Through careful planning and negotiating, the terrorists are persuaded to take their hostages out to a waiting helicopter, on their way to the helicopter, Rainbows disguised shooters ambush and kill them. Clark and his colleagues become suspicious about this flurry of activity from older terrorists, the increase in terror attacks helps their security firm land a contract during the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. From within the Olympic security apparatus, they plan to launch a sophisticated bioweapon attack intended to wipe out the majority of the human race, therefore, the excess billions must be killed off. The worlds governments would hurriedly organize giving the vaccine to their entire populations. Rainbow and the SAS retake the hospital, capturing some of the terrorists, interrogation reveals Popovs involvement in instigating the attack. Now the focus of a manhunt, Popov is kept hidden at Horizons secret base in Kansas, upon learning about the planned Olympic attack, an appalled Popov escapes the compound and contacts Clark. Fortunately, Chavez is present at the Olympics as a security consultant and their plans destroyed, the eco-terrorists retreat to their refuge deep in the Brazilian rain forest, hoping to negotiate a deal to return to the United States. Clark, knowing that they may never be put on trial, tracks down the Brazilian hideout, after Rainbow defeats the eco-terrorists militia force and destroys their facility and supplies, Clark has the survivors stripped naked and left to die, taunting them to reconnect with nature. When no survivors resurface in nearby towns, one agent notes that people try to preserve nature, nature is not known for returning the favor
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The Bear and the Dragon
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The Bear and the Dragon is a political thriller novel by Tom Clancy featuring Jack Ryan. The title refers to the Russian Bear and the Chinese Dragon, due to the quick actions of his driver, a former Spetsnaz soldier, Golovko survives the incident. He is left to ponder whether the RPG was meant for him or not, the investigation is slow to turn up leads, and weeks pass with only a few leads on the murder investigation. In reaction, a boycott is imposed on China. With its economy already struggling due to recent military expansions, China hastens its planned invasion of Siberia to access newly discovered oil, the operation includes an attempt to assassinate the Russian president, Grushavoy, and his top-ranking advisor. Ryan persuades NATO to admit Russia, and promises assistance against China to President Grushavoy, when the Chinese enter Siberia, the Russians repel their invasion force with help from the United States and its NATO allies, causing heavy casualties on the Chinese side. The U. S. Navy attacks the Chinese mainlands coastal defenses, f-117 Nighthawks destroy railroad bridges in Harbin and Beian with GBU-27 Paveway IIIs, seriously damaging Chinese lines of communication for their army in Russia. Beijings increasingly desperate leaders decide to ready their ICBMs for a potential launch, a joint NATO-Russian special operations team led by Rainbow operative John Clark is dispatched to destroy them. The team destroys all but two of the Chinese missiles, of the two that launch, one is shot down by an AH-64 Apache while the second heads toward Washington, D. C. Ryan watches as the ship destroys the ICBM at the last possible moment. A reformist Politburo member, Fang Gan, takes over and arrests the rest of the Communist leadership, Fang then holds an open discussion with student leaders that starts Chinas transition to democracy
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Red Rabbit
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Red Rabbit is a bestselling novel by Tom Clancy. It incorporates the 1981 plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II and it made it on to the New York Times bestseller list. The abridged book on CD released in 2002 was read by Dennis Boutsikaris, the unabridged book on CD released in 2002 was read by Derrick Hagon. The defector tells of a KGB plan to kill Pope John Paul II, in Command Authority, When trying to find information on the KGB assassin known as Zenith. Ryan asks Greer if Rabbit knows anything about the assassin with Greer confirming to Ryan that Rabbit does not know anything about him, upon its release the novel received somewhat poor reviews. Critics praised Clancys believable account of the plot, but disdained the lack of suspense, reviewers for CNN and The New York Times considered the development of the main plot slow and tedious and noted that sub-plots remained underdeveloped and unresolved. Reviewers for Publishers Weekly and Esquire believed the involvement of Clancys main character Ryan in the plot to be highly marginal. Nevertheless, the novel reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List
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The Teeth of the Tiger
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The Teeth of the Tiger is a thriller novel by Tom Clancy. Published on August 1,2003, it is a part of the Jack Ryan universe and it is also the readers introduction to the Campus, a fictional, privately owned, highly covert intelligence agency. In Rome, a Mossad station chief is assassinated, the murder piques the interest of the Campus, an off-the-books intelligence agency situated in direct line-of-sight between the CIA and the NSA. Jack Ryan Jr. the son of former president Jack Ryan, wanting to serve his country in the post-9/11 world, he is hired by the agency as an analyst. Elsewhere, Brian Caruso, a nephew of the president, is a U. S. Marine returning from Afghanistan to be decorated for his achievements in battle. Dominic Caruso, his brother, is an FBI agent who, while investigating a kidnapping of a little girl, Caruso kills the suspect, ostensibly in self defense after purposely getting noticed and the suspect reacts by grabbing a knife at gun-point. The Caruso brothers are soon recruited into a Campus strike team, however, Brian is unsure of the morality of carrying out preemptive assassinations, even against terrorists. This changes when cells of Islamic fundamentalists cross the U. S. -Mexico border, Brian and Dominic happen to be at one of the malls when the attack occurs. Although they efficiently find and dispatch all four shooters, dozens of people are killed, when a child dies in his arms after the attack, Brian abandons his earlier moral qualms. The Campus decides the brothers are ready and implements a reconnaissance-by-fire strategy to flush out the terrorist leaders, to carry out the assassinations, the brothers are issued a weapon utilizing succinylcholine, developed by a Columbia University professor whose brother died in the 9/11 attacks. The succinylcholine is delivered through a hypodermic needle disguised as a pen, twisting the nib switches the tip from a normal tip to a sharp needle that delivers 7 milligrams of the substance. Only 5 milligrams are necessary for death, the substance causes complete paralysis at 30 to 50 seconds and death at 3 minutes, shutting down all the muscles within the victim, with the exception of the heart. However, it makes the look like a heart attack. Disguised as tourists, the team travels across Europe, finding and murdering several major players in the terrorist organization, the first three murders go off fairly routinely, the brothers are able to apply the syringe and quietly escape before the targets expire. For the fourth assassination, the brothers are joined by Jack Ryan Jr, although originally present as an observer, Jack is forced to kill the target himself when a random accident spills wine on the brothers suits, spoiling their anonymous appearance. After murdering the terrorist, Jack uses his key to gain access to his computer. The Emir, a figure who heads the Organization, still at large. Uda bin Sali, a terrorist banker/financier in the United Kingdom, anas Ali Atef, terrorist recruiter in Germany, killed by Dominic
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Threat Vector (novel)
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Threat Vector is a political thriller novel by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney published on December 4,2012. The novel features the former CIA agent and president Jack Ryan and his son Jack Ryan Jr. Abridged and unabridged audiobooks were released on CD in 2012, are individually assigned specific individuals to assassinate. Wei was close to suicide until his inevitable arrest is prevented by General Su Ke Qiang, Kovalenko chooses to work for the organization and his death is faked. In China, American sales manager Todd Wicks is blackmailed into working for the Guoanbu by means of a honeypot operation. In exchange for handing over a drive with a RAT embedded into it to Hendley Associates. John Clark decides to retire from the Campus on the account of his age, after a US Reaper drone on a mission in Pakistan is hacked and attacks friendly forces, President Ryan orders all UAVs to be locked on base. Jack Jr, Ding, and Gavin then return to the States, Tong, upon learning that Zha had been captured by the US, declares the Ghost Ship location to be compromised and relocates the office to Guangzhou. Adams neighbor is killed in a car bombing intended for Adam, meanwhile, after US negotiations with the PRC are unsuccessful and the threat of a military invasion of Taiwan seems imminent, an Indian frigate is rammed by a Chinese submarine. The submarine is attacked, resulting in the Chinese navy attacking and heavily damaging the Indian aircraft carrier Viraat, deployed to the region to protect its own interests. The Chinese then warn President Ryan to pull back the USS Ronald Reagan three hundred miles from China, a distance that would render the US Navy incapable of defending Taiwan. President Ryan then decides to back the USS Ronald Reagan. While in a CIA safe house under the guard of five CIA agents in Georgetown, Zha, meanwhile, Junior and Gavin pick up intelligence that Center has a data center located in Miami. Defying orders from Operations Director Sam Granger, Junior and Dominic go to Miami to check it out, after a brief gunfight and a hasty exit, Junior is put on suspension and begins to investigate how Center knew of his intentions to go to Miami. Upon realizing that Melanie had bugged his phone when he was not around, while following Melanie one day on her way to work, Jr witnesses and intervenes on an attempt by the Divine Sword unit to assassinate Melanie, killing one operative and seriously wounding another. Jr then calls in Clark for assistance and then leaves for Hong Kong to aid Adam Yao and it is there that they realize the faction is smaller than originally thought and less organized. Meanwhile, realizing that the Campus is aware of the existence of the Ghost Ship through the RAT drive, john Clark and Melanie witness the attacks and intervene, resulting in the killing in all but two Divine Sword operatives taken captive and the capture of Kovalenko. During the interrogation, Kovalenko reveals that Ghost Ship communicates with its overseas operates via encrypted network, with the help of Gavin Biery, Clark and Kovalenko are able to deduce that Dr. KK Tong is the head of Ghost Ship. Clark, upon realizing that Chavez, Caruso, and Driscoll are dangerously outnumbered, upon talking to FSB Director Stanislav Biryukov, Clark then leaves for Beijing with Russian military aid to aid in the assassination of Chairman Su
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Command Authority
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Command Authority is a political thriller novel by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney published posthumously on December 3,2013 by Putnam Adult. This is the novel featuring the former CIA agent and president Jack Ryan. Decades later, Volodin - now President of the Russian Federation - orders an invasion of Estonia, although US support slows the advance, the country is quickly taken by Russia. Kadić realises that he has set up and attempts to flee. This attack is timed with the poisoning of Sergey Golovko, the former director of SVR. President Volodin uses this as justification to commence the invasion of Ukraine, after interrogating one gang member, they confront Sandy Lamont, Jack Jr. s manager, but he knows nothing of the situation and is startled by their intrusion. Next, they go to Galbraith, who resides in Scotland, he tells them about his experiences with the money and his dealings with Hugh Castor, finally, they go to Zurich, Switzerland, where Castor agrees to provide information to the United States in exchange for protection. However, Spetsnaz soldiers attack and kill Oxley, though the team, as well as Swiss private security, clark receives identification confirming Gleb the Scar as Dmitri Nesterov, the killer of Golovko. With support from Delta Force operators, they succeed in capturing him. After this, having been informed by his son, Jack Ryan Sr. talks to Volodin. Russia ceases operations in Ukraine and pulls back, two later, Talanov resigns, and becomes an emissary in exchange for government protection
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Red Storm Rising
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Red Storm Rising is a 1986 technothriller novel by Tom Clancy about a Third World War in Europe between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Warsaw Pact forces, set around the mid-1980s. It was also unusual in its depiction of a World War III fought exclusively with conventional weapons and it is one of three Clancy novels not associated with the Jack Ryan universe. The novel eventually lent its name to a development company called Red Storm Entertainment. Energy Minister Mikhail Sergetov, a candidate member of the Politburo. Sergetov reluctantly agrees, claiming that the Soviet Union has sufficient oil reserves for the war in order to gain political favor, the mobilization is tasked with Marshal of the Soviet Union Shavyrin and Commander-in-Chief of Ground Forces Rozhkov. According to the Carter Doctrine, any attack on the Gulf is an attack on strategic interests to the United States, Robert Toland, a naval reserve analyst at Fort Meade, soon becomes suspicious of the Soviets. Impressed by Tolands findings, the Commander of CINCLANT promotes Toland to Lieutenant Commander, meanwhile, the Politburo arranges a bomb blast in the Kremlin that destroys the Council of Ministers Building and kills seven visiting Young Octobrists from Pskov. The Soviet government claims that the bombing was a terrorist attack by Gerhardt Falken, Toland theorizes that Falken is actually a KGB sleeper agent. The Soviets demand the dissolution of the Federal Republic of Germany at a press conference, despite optimism from the Politburo, the military leaders of the Soviet Armed Forces quickly realize that the plan could fail despite the Partys military doctrine of surprise. Although Alekseyev refuses to share his full concerns out of a mistrust for politicians, Sergetov volunteers his son Ivan, Ivan confides that his father was not involved in the bombing to gain Alekseyevs trust. This advance knowledge gives NATO time to mobilize its forces, destroy numerous Spetznaz direct action strike groups, mention is made of a completely successful Spetznaz sabotage mission against the Kiel Canal and the Port of Hamburg, and an unsuccessful one in Bremen. Additionally, the Soviets offer to return Sakhalin to Japan in exchange for their neutrality, the Soviets face no opposition in either the Pacific theater or the Mediterranean region. The NATO forces achieve air superiority and destroy key bridges over which much of the Soviet Army had yet to cross. Mention is made of the bombing of a bridge on the road between Berlin and Braunschweig. Warsaw Pact forces advance at a tremendous cost, Germany becomes the epicentre of the conflict, here, NATO forces are slowly driven west while inflicting significant damage to the encroaching Soviet Army. Using KGB personnel hidden in the Soviet Embassy in Iceland, the Soviets rapidly disband the Althing and occupy the island without resistance, although they impose a brutal administration. Realizing the futility of the situation, USAF Lieutenant Colonel Mike Edwards escapes from Keflavik with several Marines, with the military unable to withdraw him, he is ordered to remain on the island for reconnaissance work by the SAS. Although the first NATO air raid on Iceland has only limited success due to their decision to ignore Edwards advice about the presence of MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters, the USS Nimitz is present at this convoy, and Toland witnesses the attack
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Against All Enemies (novel)
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Against All Enemies is a 2011 spy novel by Tom Clancy and Peter Telep. It appears not to be part of the Jack Ryan series of novels, the unabridged book on CD released in 2011 was read by Steven Weber. CIA Special Activities Division Operation Officer Max Moore, whose looks resemble those of Richard Marcinko, is on a mission in Pakistan to retrieve a high-value target. When the mission goes awry and Moores allies are killed, he is recalled to the United States to take part in a new effort against the Mexican drug cartels. Moore and his attempt to infiltrate the cartels and play them off against each other. Although they are able to bring down a major kingpin, they are unable to prevent several Taliban terrorists from entering the United States via a smuggling tunnel. The terrorists have brought a number of MANPADS surface-to-air missile launchers with them, although the attack is partially successful, Moore and associates are able to stop one of the terrorist teams. Moore is then deployed to Belize on a mission to capture the leader of the terrorist cell, after a boat chase, the leader is captured and sent to a black site for interrogation. A brief crossover occurs near the end of the book when Dominic Caruso attempts to recruit Max Moore for an agency which may be The Campus
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Submarine (book)
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Submarine, A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship is a non-fiction book written by Tom Clancy and defense systems analyst John D. Gresham. It explores the workings of two submarines, the USS Miami and HMS Triumph. Some editions of the book have a section in the middle, some have a special chapter on Seawolf class submarine. The chapter Other peoples submarines has the history and other information about the submarines of other countries, the foreword in the Penguin edition was written by Vice Admiral Roger Bacon. An edition of this also includes diagrams of various submarines. Marine, a written by Tom Clancy about a Marine Expeditionary Unit
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Into the Storm: On the Ground in Iraq
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Into the Storm is Tom Clancys first book in his study of command series. Clancy traces the organizational success story of the U. S. Armys rise since the Vietnam War and it is also a partial biography of General Frederick M. Franks, Jr. The book also describes the transformation of the U. S. Army, traumatized by the Vietnam War, Franks became the first amputee active-duty general since the American Civil War. The book is written by Tom Clancy with sections where he uses General Franks own words
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Airborne (book)
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Thomas Leo Tom Clancy Jr. was an American novelist and video game designer best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science story lines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print and his name was also used on movie scripts written by ghost writers, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community activities, Clancys literary career began in 1984 when he sold The Hunt for Red October for $5,000. His works, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Clancy died on October 1,2013, of an undisclosed illness. Clancy was born on April 12,1947, at Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and he was the second of three children to Thomas Clancy, who worked for the United States Postal Service, and Catherine Clancy, who worked in a stores credit department. His mother worked to him to the private Catholic Loyola Blakefield in Towson, Maryland. He then attended Loyola College in Baltimore, graduating in 1969 with a degree in English literature, while at university, he was president of the chess club. He joined the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps, however, he was ineligible to serve due to his nearsightedness, after graduating, he worked for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1973, he joined the O. F. Bowen Agency, in 1980, he purchased the insurance agency from his wifes grandmother and wrote novels in his spare time. While working at the agency, he wrote his debut novel. Clancys literary career began in 1982 when he started writing The Hunt for Red October and she believed Clancy had an innate storytelling ability, and his characters had this very witty dialogue. The publisher requested Clancy to cut numerous technical details, amounting to about 100 pages, Clancy, who had wanted to sell 5,000 copies, ended up selling over 45,000. The book was praised for its technical accuracy, which led to Clancys meeting several high-ranking officers in the U. S. military. All but two of Clancys solely written novels feature Jack Ryan or John Clark, the Cold War epic Red Storm Rising was co-written with fellow military-oriented author Larry Bond. The first NetForce novel, titled Net Force, was adapted as a 1999 TV movie starring Scott Bakula, the first Op-Center novel was released to coincide with a 1995 NBC television miniseries of the same name starring Harry Hamlin and a cast of stars. Though the miniseries did not continue, the series did, but later had little in common with the first TV miniseries other than the title. Clancy wrote several books about various branches of the U. S. He also branded several lines of books and video games with his name that are written by other authors, by 1988, Clancy had earned $1.3 million for The Hunt for Red October and had signed a $3 million contract for his next three books
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Carrier (book)
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Thomas Leo Tom Clancy Jr. was an American novelist and video game designer best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science story lines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print and his name was also used on movie scripts written by ghost writers, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community activities, Clancys literary career began in 1984 when he sold The Hunt for Red October for $5,000. His works, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Clancy died on October 1,2013, of an undisclosed illness. Clancy was born on April 12,1947, at Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and he was the second of three children to Thomas Clancy, who worked for the United States Postal Service, and Catherine Clancy, who worked in a stores credit department. His mother worked to him to the private Catholic Loyola Blakefield in Towson, Maryland. He then attended Loyola College in Baltimore, graduating in 1969 with a degree in English literature, while at university, he was president of the chess club. He joined the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps, however, he was ineligible to serve due to his nearsightedness, after graduating, he worked for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1973, he joined the O. F. Bowen Agency, in 1980, he purchased the insurance agency from his wifes grandmother and wrote novels in his spare time. While working at the agency, he wrote his debut novel. Clancys literary career began in 1982 when he started writing The Hunt for Red October and she believed Clancy had an innate storytelling ability, and his characters had this very witty dialogue. The publisher requested Clancy to cut numerous technical details, amounting to about 100 pages, Clancy, who had wanted to sell 5,000 copies, ended up selling over 45,000. The book was praised for its technical accuracy, which led to Clancys meeting several high-ranking officers in the U. S. military. All but two of Clancys solely written novels feature Jack Ryan or John Clark, the Cold War epic Red Storm Rising was co-written with fellow military-oriented author Larry Bond. The first NetForce novel, titled Net Force, was adapted as a 1999 TV movie starring Scott Bakula, the first Op-Center novel was released to coincide with a 1995 NBC television miniseries of the same name starring Harry Hamlin and a cast of stars. Though the miniseries did not continue, the series did, but later had little in common with the first TV miniseries other than the title. Clancy wrote several books about various branches of the U. S. He also branded several lines of books and video games with his name that are written by other authors, by 1988, Clancy had earned $1.3 million for The Hunt for Red October and had signed a $3 million contract for his next three books
