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Jacket Description/Back:Every novel by Tom Clancy has been "a jaw-tightener and a nail-biter of the first order", as the San Diego Union described Without Remorse. But Debt of Honor surpasses them all, with Jack Ryan facing his greatest challenge - against a peril that may become all too real. In retrospect, it would seem an odd way to start a war. . . . The end of history. The new world order. Fine phrases, but as Jack Ryan is about to discover, history isn't dead yet - and only the nature of the threat is new. On the Pacific island of Saipan, a wealthy Japanese businessman regards his new-bought land with satisfaction. In the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka, a foreign navy begins a series of highly unusual exercises. At the headquarters of America's major stock-clearing corporation, an engineer brings a customized computer program on-line for the first time, and smiles at his own private joke. Three seemingly unrelated incidents, but all just the first links in a chain of events that will… Read More

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Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.In The Bear and the Dragon, the future is very near at hand indeed.Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; there's a revolution in Liberia; the Asian economy is going down the tubes; and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR -- the former KGB -- with a tocket-propelled grenade. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the potential assassins. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, or disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here?Ryan is right. For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops… Read More

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With his "genius for big, compelling plots (and) natural narrative gift" (The New York Times Magazine), Tom Clancy has written five novels which now total more than 28 million copies in print. His most recent book, Clear and Present Danger, was the bestselling novel of the 1980s. And now Tom Clancy gives readers his most remarkable novel yet: a story of unrelenting suspense that is as explosive as today's headlines.
The Gulf War is over and an Israeli nuclear weapon is missing. The balance of power in the Mideast--and the world--is about to change forever. CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan returns to face the challenge of his career when his proposal for a Middle Eastern peace plan erupts into chaos.

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Military history / biography of retired General Chuck HornerPublisher Marketing:Combining military history and biography, a profile of General Chuck Horner, commander of the allied air forces during the Persian Gulf War, discusses the tactics involved, as well as the changing nature of our Air Force.
Review Citations:
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/1999 pg. 70 (EAN 9780399144936, Hardcover)
Publishers Weekly 04/19/1999 pg. 50 (EAN 9780399144936, Hardcover)
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/1999 pg. 688 (EAN 9780399144936, Hardcover)
Library Journal 01/01/1999 (EAN 9780399144936, Hardcover)