具体描述
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER is the
phenomenal new international bestseller from the
author of The Hunt For Red October, Red Storm Rising,
Patriot Games and, most recently, The Cardinal Of
The Kremlin, which was hailed by critics as his
finest novel to date. Terrific characters, the
authentic feel of espionage, a superlative rendering
of modern warfare wrote Bob Woodward in the
Washington Post. With his four previous novels
Tom Clancy has, in the space of five years, joined the
very top rank of international superselling authors,
and his novels have become bywords for uncanny
authenticity linked with nerve-stopping excitement.
Now, in his fifth novel, Clancy delivers yet again,
with a story as explosive and compelling as today s
headlines.
At what point, the novel asks, does criminal activity
begin to threaten the security of the nation? When
can a nation respond to such activity as it would to
an enemy? These are the questions Jack Ryan must
consider when he hears the shocking news:
Colombian drug lords, tired of being harassed by
U.S. law enforcement agents, have assassinated the
American Ambassador and the visiting head of the
F.B.I.- and that is just the beginning. Their message
is clear: leave us alone.
But they have pushed too far. Someone steps quietly
over the line they have drawn, deploying covert-
action teams in Colombia. At home, too, men
armed with the most sophisticated tools their
country can devise begin to take the fight to the
enemy. But does anyone know who the real enemy
is, and how much action is too much? Who is doing
what? Which lines have been crossed? Ryan and his
dark side , a shadowy field officer known only as
Mr Clark, must find out. They expect danger from
without. But the greatest danger of all may be
from within.
