Patriot Games

Patriot Games
By: Tom Clancy
Published: 1987
Follows: Without Remorse
Followed by: Red Rabbit

Historian Jack Ryan is on leave from his job at Annapolis Navel Academy. He and his wife and daughter are on a working vacation in London, England, when one afternoon fate will propel Jack from a quiet academic life to the fromtlines of international terrorism. An act of salvation in a daring assination attempts earns Jack the love of a nation and the hatered of Sean Miller, a member of the Maoist Ulster Liberation Army, a radical splinter of the Provisional IRA. The ULA has big plans and connections to Libya and East Bloc intelligence services, as well as other revolutionary groups in Europe and the US. Jack Ryan returns home to the United States only to find that the ULA has brought Irelands "Troubles" to America, placing Jacks family in the firing line, and forcing Jack Ryan from the quiet life of a teacher, to the shadowy halls of the CIA.

Tom Clancy chronicles the events that led Jack Ryan to the CIA. Jack comes alive as one of the most human characters in modern fiction. The reader feels his anguish, his anger and his joy.

*****out of***** ESSENTIAL READ

The Title Comes from the song "The Patriot Game"