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"Tom Clancy is the best there is."
- Edward L. Beach,
  San Francisco Chronicle

For readers who wondered how Tom Clancy could possibly top The Huntfor Red October, the sensational Red Storm Rising provided the answer.  It sold a million copies in hardcover alone, and firmly established Clancy at the head of the league.

And now Clancy tops Red Storm Rising - with Patriot Games.  Filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguished his two previous books, but on a far more intimate scale, and featuring Red October's charismatic hero, Jack Ryan, Patriot Games puts us on the cutting edge of another type of war, but one no less deadly: the international battle against terrorism.

It is fall.  Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets, historian, ex-Marine and CIA analyst Jack Ryan is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter, when a terrorist attack takes place before his eyes.  Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot.  It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns whose lives he has saved - the Prince and Princess of Wales and their new young son - and which enemies he has made - the Ulster Liberation Army, an ultra-left-wing splinter of the IRA.

By his impulsive act, he has gained both the gratitude of a nation and the enmity of its most dangerous men - men who do not sit on their hate.  And in the weeks and months to come, it is Jack Ryan, and his family, who will become the targets of that hate.

Sweeping from England to Ireland to America with ever-growing momentum, its suspense steadily intensifying as Ryan must summon all the skills and
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knowledge at his command to battle back against his nemesis, Patriot Games gives us a remarkable set of characters in the most desperate struggle of their lives.  As with Tom Clancy's two previous triumphs, it is both a marvel of the storyteller's art - and, as the headlines attest, frighteningly real.

He has had a private talk with the President of the United States, conferred with the White House staff, lectured at the Central Intelligence Agency and been consulted by international intelligence experts.  Yet Tom Clancy is neither a former intelligence officer nor naval man.  Extensive primary and secondary research into Soviet-American military strategies and advanced technology gave him the backgrounds for The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising.  For Patriot Games, his research took him to the streets of London and to meetings with British secret antiterrorism specialists, to the corridors of the FBI and CIA and to the choppy waters of Chesapeake Bay aboard a Navy patrol boat.  He lives in Prince Frederick, Maryland, where he is now at work on his fourth novel.

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Remarkable praise for Tom Clancy's
Red Storm Rising
"Red Storm Rising is a true classic.  The true measure of Tom Clancy's art is his ability to make both the high technology and the personal motivations of his characters not only real but alive and human.  This is what makes him a new star in our national constellation of writers....  In addition, the book is a first-class shoot-'em-up.  The book gives an extraordinary picture, from both sides, of what war might be like in the last decade of the twentieth century....  Tom Clancy is the best there is.  He is a master." - Edward L. Beach, San Francisco Chronicle

"Red Storm Rising is even better than the The Hunt for Red October.  I dare you to read one chapter and try to put it down."
"Red Storm Rising will take its place with such remarkable works as Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.  It is a brilliant military fantasy - and far too close to reality for comfort....  The author even manages to invest his characters with hot blood and real emotion....  His sureness of three-dimensional touch prompts the reader to wonder whether the Pentagon wouldn't be spending some of its millions better at employing him inside Cheyenne Mountain than letting his talents go to waste in best-selling authorship."
"The possibility of World War III, vividly rendered, is what gives Clancy's book such a chilling ring of truth." - Walter Isaacson, Time

"The author of The Hunt for Red October proves convincingly that his first success was no fluke.  A fascinating and totally credible story, told with authenticity and great suspense." - Publishers Weekly

"Frighteningly realistic...  A masterful grasp of strategy, tactics and military technology laced with tension and suspense."
"A rattling good yarn!"