After
two years of retirement from government service, the president
has asked Jack Ryan to come back. Not into the CIA, but as the
National Security Advisor. With the end of world communism and
the cold
war,
peace has not broken out all over. The president's foreign policy
has failed to rise to the challenge and the president turns to
Jack to help him get his foreign policy house in order. But Ryan
is a little
lost as well, the old rules of international intrigue no longer
apply and Jack has to learn the new ones. Meanwhile three unlikely
allies
prepare a blow against the United States. Instigated by a Japanese
businessman, Mr. Raizo Yamata, who hates the US because his family
committed suicide on the island of Saipan during World War II
rather than be captured by US Marines, the three allies are adding
financial
weapons to a military surprise. Yamata feels he owes a Debt of
Honor to his family and to his country. An unusual auto accident
in America
adds the final pressure to initiate Yamata's plan. Between the
economic and military attack, the US may not be able to counter
a chilling
threat to world peace. But from Washington, DC to Tokyo, Japan
there are many more Debts of Honor to be paid than Yamata realizes.
After
two years of retirement from government service, the president
has asked Jack Ryan to come back. Not into the CIA, but as the
National Security Advisor. With the end of world communism and
the cold
war,
peace has not broken out all over. The president's foreign policy
has failed to rise to the challenge and the president turns to
Jack to help him get his foreign policy house in order. But Ryan
is a little
lost as well, the old rules of international intrigue no longer
apply and Jack has to learn the new ones. Meanwhile three unlikely
allies
prepare a blow against the United States. Instigated by a Japanese
businessman, Mr. Raizo Yamata, who hates the US because his family
committed suicide on the island of Saipan during World War II
rather than be captured by US Marines, the three allies are adding
financial
weapons to a military surprise. Yamata feels he owes a Debt of
Honor to his family and to his country. An unusual auto accident
in America
adds the final pressure to initiate Yamata's plan. Between the
economic and military attack, the US may not be able to counter
a chilling
threat to world peace. But from Washington, DC to Tokyo, Japan
there are many more Debts of Honor to be paid than Yamata realizes.