| 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 the world commmunism and the cold war, peace has not broken out all over. The president's foreign policy has failed to rise tot he 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 US. 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 thress allies are adding financial weapons to a military suprise. Yuamata 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 the world peace. But from Washington, DC to Tokyo, Japan there are many more Debts of Honor to be paid than Yamata realizes. |
