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TOM   CLANCY'S   *JACK   RYAN*   CHAPTER   LISTING

  (By Bill Alessio)

PATRIOT GAMES

 

1.       A Sunny Day in Londontown         ‘autumn… been warm’

2.       Cops and Royals                         ‘Ryan, 31’

3.       Flowers and Families         ‘four-month-old’ [Prince’s]

4.       Players                             ‘Jack… in here last July’

5.       Perqs and Plots                 ‘Sally [4] …born… four years before.’

6.       Trials and Troubles            ‘ambush… 4 wks ago.’  ‘cricket championships’

7.       Speedbird Home

8.       Information                        ‘almost time for Christmas break’

9.       A Day for Celebration        ‘sister lived in Seattle’  ‘Christmas’

10.     Plans and Threats              ‘New Year’s Eve’

11.     Warnings

12.     Homecoming

13.     Visitors

14.     Second Chances               ‘President’s Day’

15.     Shock and Trauma             ‘[Cathy], age thirty or so’

16.     Objectives and Patriots

17.     Recriminations and Decisions

18.     Lights                               ‘terrorist incidents in 1982… in 1985.’

19.     Tests and Passing Grades

20.     Data                                 ‘windy March day’  ‘beginning of spring’

21.     Plans

22.     Procedures                       ‘class… graduated’

23.     Movement                         ‘dinner... Friday, 30th July.’  ‘baby… August.’

24.     Connections Missed and Made

25.     Rendezvous

26.     The Sound of Freedom      ‘a twenty-three-hour day.’  [’76, ’82, ’93?]

 

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER

 

1.       Friday, 3 December           [’76, ’82, ’93?]

2.       Saturday, 4 December       ‘for three years… biography’

3.       Sunday, 5 December

4.       Monday, 6 December        ‘Sally’s in first grade… little Jack is toddling’

5.       Tuesday, 7 December        ‘Pearl Harbor… father was 19… wasn’t the 1st

6.       Wednesday, 8 December

7.       Thursday, 9 December       ‘Return of the Jedi… tape’

8.       Friday, 10 December

9.       Saturday, 11 December     ‘president… a few years earlier’

10.     Sunday, 12 December       ‘Commissioned in 1961…served over 20 years’

11.     Monday, 13 December

12.     Tuesday, 14 December

13.     Wednesday, 15 December

14.     Thursday, 16 December     ‘new [book] coming out next year’

15.     Friday, 17 December         ‘movie tapes… E.T.’

16.     Saturday, 18 December     ‘At Langley two months during summer… 2 years ago asked to work full time… [parents] plane crash 10 years ago.’

17.     Sunday, 19 December

18.     Monday, 20 December

 

THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN

 

Pro.    Threats - Old, New and Timeless            (submarine) 'nearly a year'

1.       The Reception of the Party                     'Ryan... 35.' 'terrorists... 5 years'

2.       Tea Clipper

3.       The Weary Red Fox 'Jack at kindergarten.' ‘Super Bowl… Sunday’

4.       Bright Stars and Fast Ships

5.       Eye of the Snake/ Face of the Dragon     (satellite) 'launched... 1986'

6.       One if by Land

7.       Catalysts

8.       Document Transfer

9.       Opportunities

10.     Damage Assessment

11.     Procedures

12.     Success and Failure

13.     Councils

14.     Changes

15.     Culmination

16.     Damage Assessment

17.     Conspiracy

18.     Advantages

19.     Travelers                          "1958... when he'd been in second grade"

20.     The Key of Destiny

21.     Knave's Gambit

22.     Active Measures

23.     Best-Laid Plans

24.     The Rules of the Game      “CIA part-time 4 years…consulting year before”

25.     Convergence

26.     Black Operations

27.     Under Wraps

Ep.     Common Ground               "first day of spring”  “debriefings… weeks”

 

CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER

 

Pro.    Situation                                      "late spring... an election year."

1.       The King of Sar

2.       Creatures of the Night                  "Ding... 26."

3.       The Panache Procedure              "piracy... on or about the 14th."

4.       Preliminaries                    

5.       Beginnings

6.       Deterrence

7.       Knowns and Unknowns      “few months ago… crash operation… KGB.” 

  "6 years with Agency"  “crash at Chicago [5-25-79?]”  "leaves of summer"

8.       Deployment

9.       Meeting Engagement

10.     Dry Feet

11.     In-Country                                   "They've had over a month now."

12.     The Curtain on SHOWBOAT         "[Jack]... not even forty yet."

13.     The Bloody Weekend

14.     Snatch and Grab                         "Maggie, 17 ...Patricia, 14."

15.     Deliverymen                                "The coming of summer..."

16.     Target List

17.     Execution

18.     Force Majeure

19.     Fallout

20.     Discoveries                       "brief [of] 1984 presidential campaign."

21.     Explanations

22.     Disclosures

23.     The Games Begin              "daughter... Jack Jr... off to school."

24.     Ground Rules                    "after [opposition candidate's] convention..."

25.     The ODYSSEY File

26.     Instruments of State

27.     The Battle of Ninja Hill

28.     Accounting                        "a week short of the convention"

29.     Fill-Ups

30.     The Good of the Service    "Saturday after the election"

 

THE SUM OF ALL FEARS

 

Pro.    Broken Arrow

1.       The Longest Journey...

2.       Labyrinths

3.       ...a Single Hit

4.       Promised Land

5.       Changes and Guards

6.       Maneuvers              'first 2 years of his admin... cong. elections in Nov.'

7.       The City of God

8.       The Pandora Process

9.       Resolve

10.     Last Stands

11.     Robosoldiers                     'millennium... few more years'

12.     Tinsmiths

13.     Process

14.     Revelation

15.     Development

16.     Fueling the Fire

17.     Processing                        'Jack is 7. Sally is 10.' (Cathy: 36)

18.     Progress                           'put Communism... over 70 years before'

19.     Development

20.     Competition

21.     Connectivity

22.     Repercussions

23.     Opinions

24.     Revelation

25.     Resolution

26.     Integration                         ‘Christmas… middle of the week’

27.     Data Fusion

28.     Contractual Obligations

29.     Crossroads

30.     East Room

31.     Dancers                            'over 80 years... always had The Plan'

32.     Closure                             (Berlin) 'three years before...'

33.     Passages

34.     Placement

35.     Three Shakes

36.     Weapons Effects

37.     Human Effects                   ‘Durling… his youngest… boy only 4 years old.’

38.     First Contacts

39.     Echoes

40.     Collisions

41.     The Field of Calman

42.     Asp and Sword

43.     The Revenge of Moedred

44.     The Breeze of Evening

 

DEBT OF HONOR

 

Pro.    Sunset, Sunrise       "Saudi Arabia... 2 1/2 years before"  "Kath...2"

1.       Alumni

2.       Fraternity

3.       Collegium

4.       Activity

5.       Complexity Theory

6.       Looking In, Looking Out

7.       Catalyst                  "football season was over" "Cresta, the sporty C99"

8.       Fast-Forwarding

9.       Power Plays

10.     Seduction

11.     Sea Change                      "Wednesday, the Fourth"

12.     Formalities

13.     Winds and Tides

14.     Reflections

15.     A Damned, Foolish Thing

16.     Payloads

17.     Strike One                        "[President] risk... in the primaries."

18.     Easter Egg                        “10 years?”  "Saturday the 14th [F, M 98?]”

19.     Strike Two, 1-800-RUN

20.     Strike Three

21.     Navy Blue

22.     Global Dimension

23.     Catching Up

24.     Running in Place

25.     All the King's Horses          "...all the way to the convention."

26.     Catch-Up

27.     Piling On

28.     Transmissions

29.     Written Records

30.     Why Not?

31.     The How and the What

32.     Special Report                  “winter wheat in… new planting season”

33.     Reversal Points

34.     All Aboard                         “the previous Friday”

35.     Consequences

36.     Consideration

37.     Going Deep                       “Iowa caucuses... 2 weeks away” [Feb.]

38.     The River Rubicon

39.     Eyes First

40.     Foxes and Hounds

41.     CTF-77

42.     Lightning Strikes

43.     Dancing to the Tune

44.     from one who knows the score...

45.     Line of Battle                     “fifty [years] of nuclear sub ops…”

46.     Detachment

47.     Brooms         “6 wks. earlier”  “not even 11 mos.”  “10 yrs. Ago... terrorists”

 

EXECUTIVE ORDERS

 

Pro.    Starting Here

1.       Starting Now           ‘worse’n Oklahoma.’ 

2.       Pre-Dawn

3.       Scrutiny

4.       OJT                        ‘737 landed short [1-13-82?]’ 

5.       Arrangements          ‘Sally, now 15’

6.       Evaluation               ‘flown… 3 months earlier’  ‘February wind’

7.       Public Image           ‘George Bush...’  ‘Mark Durling, age 9.’ 

8.       Change of Command         ‘Quantaco… 20 years before.’  ‘over in 1994.’

9.       Distant Howls

10.     Politics

11.     Monkeys                 ‘sweeps week’

12.     Presentation            ‘killed last week’

13.     To the Manner Born           ‘This February morning’

14.     Blood in the Water

15.     Deliveries

16.     The Iraqi Transfer    ‘A month ago… shooting war’

17.     The Revival

18.     Last Plane Out

19.     Recipes                  [Clark/Holtzman] ‘for five years. Time isn’t up’

20.     New Administrations ‘March arriving’  ‘Roger… a few weeks ago’

21.     Relationships           ‘NCAA finals’  ‘after twenty years. Raman’ [‘79]

22.     Time Zones

23.     Experiments

24.     On the Fly

25.     Blooms

26.     Weeds

27.     Results

28.     ...But a Whimper

29.     Full Court                ‘Four years ago… Colombia’

30.     Press

31.     Ripples and Waves

32.     Reruns

33.     Rebounds               ‘Spring was coming early to Atlanta.’

34.     www.terror.org

35.     Operational Concept

36.     Travelers

37.     Discharges

38.     Grace Period          ‘It promises to be a good spring… warming breezes.’

39.     Face Time

40.     Openings

41.     Hyenas

42.     Predator/Prey         ‘They’d won the Stanley Cup’

43.     Retreat

44.     Incubation               ‘Saturdays in the spring’

45.     Confirmation

46.     Outbreak

47.     Index Case

48.     Hemorrhage            ‘George Westphal [1990]… from more than a decade’

49.     Reaction Time

50.     Special Report

51.     Investigations

52.     Something of Value

53.     SNIE

54.     Friends and Neighbors

55.     Commencement

56.     Deployment

57.     Night Passage

58.     The Light of Day                ‘Giant Steps attack… in the spring’

59.     Rules of Engagement         ‘much in the past two weeks.’  [virus]

60.     Buford

61.     Grierson's Ride

62.     Ready and Forward!

63.     The Ryan Doctrine             ‘George Bush… in 1991.’

Ep.     Press Room

 

 

*TIMELINE*

 

Book Pub Open Close Jack Cathy Sally Jack, Jr Katie
                 
PG 8/87 Nov 87 July 1988 31 30 4 0  
HFRO 1984 12/3/90 12/20/90       1st grade tdlr
TCTK 7-88 1/92 4/92 35     kgtn  
CAPD 8-89 May 1992 Nov 1992          
SOAF 8-91 June 1994 Jan 1995   36 10 7 -1
DOH 8-94 Aug 1997 Feb 1998         2
EO 8-96 Feb 1998 May 1998     15   day cr

 

 

“They’re playing a goddamned game, Jack,” the pilot went on.  “There’s even a song about it.  I heard it at Riordan’s on St. Patrick’s Day.  ‘I’ve learned all my heroes and wanted the same/ To try out my hand at the patriot game.’  Something like that.”                                                                               (22)

 

“We will find him, and finish him,” Tupolev said calmly, fully caught up in the hunt for Red October, remembering all he had been taught.  He would prove now that he was the new master.                                                                         (17)

 

    “Trouble,” the crew chief said when he saw the car.  There was a man with a rifle running this way, too.  “Come on, pop!” he urged the Cardinal of the Kremlin.                                                                                          (26)

 

“The targets represent a clear and present danger to the security of the United States.”

          “The President said that?”

          “His words,” Ritter affirmed.

          “Fine.  That makes it all legal.  Not any less dangerous, but legal.”    (13)

 

  Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together – what do you get?  The sum of their fears.                                                                                          -WC

 

…he had repaid his debt of honor to those who had given him birth, and his debt of honor to those who had done them to death.  In full.                                 (25)

 

“…we have a debt of honor to the people on those islands who decided that they wanted to be Americans.  If we don’t defend that principle, we don’t defend anything.”                                                                                            (32)

 

    “There is a legal problem, Pat Martin told them.  “It violates the executive order that Ford put in place.”

          “I know about that one,” Ryan responded.  “But who decides the executive orders?”                                                                                                  (63)

 

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