Clear and Present Danger

by Tom Clancy

Series: Jack Ryan Pub Order (4), Jack Ryan Chron Order (6)

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Series (with order)

Jack Ryan Pub Order (4)

Jack Ryan Chron Order (6)

Canonical Title

Clear and Present Danger

Original publication date

1989

People/Characters

John Kelly (Clark)

Domingo Chavez (Ding)

Jack Ryan

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Clear and Present Danger (1994 ∙ IMDb)

Awards and honors

New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1989)

Epigraph

Law, without force, is impotent.
-Pascal

It is the function of police to exercise force, or to threaten it, in execution of the state's purpose, internally and under normal conditions. It is the function of armed forces to exercise force, or the threat of it, externally in normal times and internally only in times that are abnormal . . .

Dedication

In the memory of John Ball,
Friend and teacher,
The professional who took the last plane out

First words

The room was still empty.

Quotations

Last words

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Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

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