Patriot Games
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Patriot Games (1987) is a book by Tom Clancy. It is chronologically the second book (after Without Remorse) featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan, the main person in almost all of Clancy's novels. The title comes from a Fenian song called The Patriot Game, an Irish ballad about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which tells of the dangers of blind patriotism.
Plot summary
Ryan saves the Prince of Wales from a breakaway Irish terrorist group, the Ulster Liberation Army, who go after Ryan and his family, partially as an act of revenge, but primarily because they seek to undermine public (and specifically American) support for the IRA. The ULA plans a strike against Jack Ryan and his family. The assassin sent to kill Ryan is intercepted before he manages to complete his task, but Ryan's wife, Cathy, and daughter, Sally, are hurt by the terrorists. This convinces Jack to take an offer the CIA had given him, to start working as an analyst in Langley, Virginia. Later, the Queen and the Prince of Wales come to visit Ryan in America. This gives the ULA another opportunity to conduct another operation to weaken the support for the PIRA(The Provisonial Wing of the IRA). They plan an operation, involving the killing of Jack Ryan and his family and kidnapping the Royal Family.Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
The novel was adapted as a feature film in 1992. See Patriot Games.
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Fiction: 1980s: The Hunt for Red October | Red Storm Rising | Patriot Games | The Cardinal of the Kremlin | Clear and Present Danger 1990s: The Sum of All Fears | Without Remorse | Debt of Honor | Executive Orders | SSN | Rainbow Six 2000s: The Bear and the Dragon | Red Rabbit | The Teeth of the Tiger Non-fiction: 1990s: Submarine | Armored Cav | Fighter Wing | Marine | Into the Storm | Airborne | Carrier | Every Man a Tiger 2000s: Special Forces | Shadow Warriors | Battle Ready |
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