Synopsis: In Patriot Games by Tom Clancy, a quiet family vacation in London turns violent when CIA analyst Jack Ryan intervenes in a terrorist attack on the British royal family — and finds himself marked for revenge by a man who doesn’t forget. Tom Clancy’s third bestseller pulls Jack Ryan out of the analyst’s chair and straight into the line of fire.
Jack Ryan isn’t supposed to be a target. He analyzes threats from behind a desk at the CIA — he doesn’t create them. That changes in an instant on a London sidewalk, when Ryan, there on vacation with his family, steps into the middle of an assassination attempt against the Prince and Princess of Wales.
His intervention saves their lives and makes him a hero in the eyes of a grateful nation — but it also makes him a marked man in the eyes of Sean Miller, the surviving terrorist who escapes with one goal left: revenge.
What follows pulls Ryan far outside his comfort zone, as the fallout from that single afternoon reaches into his home, his family, and his sense of safety in ways a desk job never could.
Clancy uses the setup to dig into the machinery behind the headlines — the intelligence work, the political calculations, and the radical splinter factions operating in the shadow of the larger conflict in Northern Ireland — grounding the thriller in the kind of procedural detail that became his signature.
The novel that helped cement Clancy’s reputation as the reigning voice of the modern political thriller, Patriot Games would later be adapted into a hit film with Harrison Ford in the role of Ryan. For readers who’ve met Ryan in other entries, this is the story of how the ordinary analyst first learned that the world doesn’t always let you stay on the sidelines.
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- Title: Patriot Games
- Author: Tom Clancy
- Series: Jack Ryan, Book 2 (chronologically first)
- Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
- Publication date: July 2, 1987 (First Edition)
- Format: Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780399132414 · ISBN-10: 0399132414
- Pages: 540 pages
- Genre: Political thriller / Espionage fiction
- Condition: Very Good
- Availability: Out of Stock
- Price: KES450
Notable: A #1 bestseller; adapted into the 1992 film starring Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan; chronologically the earliest entry in Clancy’s Jack Ryan timeline, though published second.
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