Called out of retirement to serve as National Security Advisor to the president, Jack Ryan, with the help of CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez, must prepare the untested president to meet the challenges of a new world order.
The assassination of the head of the FBI by Colombian drug lords triggers a mysterious covert response and an investigation of U.S. and Colombian actions by Jack Ryan.
When John Ryan finds himself President of the United States, he is bombarded by one crisis after another-- biological warfare, betrayal by high government officials, and assassination attempts.
Jack Ryan, CIA analyst, must rescue Colonel Filitov, America's highest agent in the Kremlin, from the KGB as the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system continues.