Tom Clancy

Jack Ryan er blitt valgt til president i USA. Han bekymrer seg for den ustabile situasjonen i Russland, og tingene blir ikke bedre da noen forsøker å ta livet av lederen for SVR, det tidligere KGB. Samtidig legges det planer i Kina, planer som om de lykkes vil forandre verden og om de mislykkes vil ha uhyrlige konsekvenser.

The bear and the dragon

Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President hasn` t got any easier : domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; 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 rocket . propelled grenade. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high . level assassination, but even more disturbing may be identities of the potential assassin. Where they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB ? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here?