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Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan Novels)
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by Tom Clancy
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Cover Type: Mass Market Paperback with 1008 pages
Published by: Berkley August 1, 1995
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0425147584
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0425147580
Book Dimensions:
6.7 x 4.2 x 1.9 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Review
Razio Yamata is one of Japan's most influential industrialists, and part of a relatively small group of authority who wield awesome authority in the Pacific Rim's economic powerhouse. He has devised a plan to cripple the American greatness, humble the U.S. military, and elevate Japan to a position of dominance on the world stage. Yamata's motivation lies in his desire to pay off a Debt of Honor to his parents and to the country he feels is responsible for their deaths: America. All he requirements is a catalyst to set his plan in motion. When the faulty gas tank on one Tennessee family's car leads to their fiery death, an opportunistic U.S. congressman uses the occasion to rush a new trade Law through the system. The Law is designed to squeeze Japan economically. Instead, it provides Yamata with the leverage he requirements to put his plan into action. As Yamata's plan begins to unfold, it becomes clear to the world that someone is launching a fully integrated operation against the United States. There's only one man to find out who the culprit is: Jack Ryan, the new president's National Security Advisor.
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From Publishers Weekly
Jack Ryan, now the President's National Security Adviser, finds himself embroiled in the buildup to a new world war-one in which the stock market and national economic policy are as critical as advanced weaponry. A power-hungry Japanese financier, still blaming America for his parents' deaths in WWII, plans to use his immense wealth to purchase his revenge. A fatal auto accident in the U.S., caused by faulty gas tanks in two Japanese cars, leads to the breakdown of U.S.-Japanese trade agreements. Spies track each other; nuclear weapons are built and hidden; Ryan and an assortment of his old colleagues maneuver ships, planes and spies into harm's way. As always, the author of Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger spins out story threads in a rich but bewildering tangle of plot and setting, then vigorously weaves them together. Here, the heart-stopping climax is unexpected, but oddly appropriate. As always, Clancy instructs (sometimes didactically) as he entertains, teaching us about currency trading, Asian business etiquette and the daily life of an American politician. Without taking up Japan-bashing, as Michael Crichton did in Rising Sun, or partisan politics, Clancy warns that recent downsizing in the defense establishment has so depleted our military resources that the country is vulnerable to aggression that can arise anywhere, anytime. 2 million first printing; BOMC selection.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Reader Reviews
This review is from: Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan Novels) (School & Library Binding)
Debt of Honor, Tom Clancy's eighth novel (and seventh in the Jack Ryan series) brings the former CIA Deputy Director out of a brief retirement and back into government service. With the dust settling from the various crises depicted in The Sum of All Fears, Jack Ryan joins the two-year-old Durling Administration as a replacement for an inadequate National Security Adviser. Although he has been making money on Wall Street and thinking of becoming a teacher again, Ryan has missed serving his country and is restless and feeling unfulfilled. So when ex-President Robert Fowler's successor asks him to work in the West Wing to reinvigorate his floundering defense and foreign policy, the stalwart Ryan accepts what he thinks will be his last government post. Just in the nick of time, too. Across the Pacific Ocean, Japanese industrialist Raizo Yamata and a small but powerful group of business and military leaders is planning the unthinkable: a surprise attack against the American financial nerve center, coinciding with a conventional assault against the shrinking U.S. military presence in the Pacific. Even worse, Yamata and his confederates in and out of the Japanese government have secretly built a small but deadly stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Yamata is motivated by a debt of honor he believes he owes to his family, decimated in 1944 when American forces landed on the island of Saipan. He harbors great hatred for the "gaijin" who wrested the Mariana Islands from Japan and made his parents and siblings jump off "Banzai Cliff" rather than face the disgrace of being captured by the American Marines and soldiers. Now, at the zenith of his financial power, Yamata has assembled a group of like-minded industrialists, politicians, and even military officers to cripple the U.S. and reclaim Japan's rightful place as a true global power. Clancy masterfully tells a complex yet compelling story of an unexpected conflict between two technologically advanced nations, while explaining in detail the psychology of economics, the bizarre nature of diplomacy and its scripted niceties, the nature of wars of aggression (Ryan classifies such wars as "armed robbery writ large"), and the corrosive effect of the revenge motive on nations and individuals. As in most of the Ryan novels, new characters (Chet Nomura, Raizo Yamata, Zhang Han Sen and George Winston) are introduced even as readers catch up with familiar Clancy players (Robby Jackson, Ed and Mary Pat Foley, John Clark, and Domingo "Ding" Chavez). And even though the plot is complicated -- particularly when Clancy goes into details about economic theory -- the story moves briskly and inexorably to a literally explosive and shocking climax.
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