The Sum of All Fears Movie Tie-In

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Summary: Clancy does it again...
Review: This is the 5th book in the "Ryanverse" and this time an Israeli nuke is missing. A militant Arab terrorist group finds the missing nuke and reworks it into a usable weapon. At the end of Clear and Present Danger, J. Robert Fowler is elected President and he is in the Oval Office at the time of this story. It's clear that he and Ryan aren't too fond of each other and his National Security Advisor, Elizabeth Elliot (who is Fowler's personal Monica Lewinsky) flat out can't stand Jack. Elliot is one of those characters that you would like to choke if you had the ability, but that keeps you into the book. Certainly the nuclear bomb and the intended use of it is the main plot, but Clancy uses the secondary storyline (the President and Elliot trying to force Ryan out) to keep the pages turning. All in all, another classic Clancy. The final stages of the book are absolutely incredible, as has been the case with every Jack Ryan book I have read thus far. I'm sure the trend continues!

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Summary: the sum of all brilliance
Review: `The sum of all brilliance'is right. One of Clancy's best .
the details are great everything from construction of the nuke to the bureaucracy,the presidents detail.Details are however a touch longwinded make you wish to skim through sometimes.
But it is undoubtably Clancy's best JACK RYAN book.
Jack Ryan now DDCI in the Fowler administration has come up with a plan that would bring peace to the middle east currently ravaged by war . Everyone `s happy with the plan. Everyone but the terrorists that is ,who have invested too much blood in their cause to let the plan succeed. With one desprate card to play . Executed with perfection the terrorist act plunges the world into a near nuclear war which could destroy everything. Terrorists managing to construct a nuke and exploding it at the superbowl .Leaving the Americans to suspect the Russians.
Jack Ryan amidst all the international confusion has his own personal problems in his martial life,also with elements in the government wanting to do away with him. With the president of the United States unable to deal with the situation the DDCI must find a way to avoid nuclear crisis ,when both superpowers collide it's only a matter of time before the world explodes.
A most exhilirating book.The movie hasn't done the book justice
has rather ruined the plot.