Tom Clancy · 1994 · thriller

Tom Clancy's 1994 thriller. A cabal of Japanese industrialists seizes their government and wages a secret war on America - occupying the Marianas, crippling the Pacific Fleet, and crashing Wall Street. Recalled as National Security Advisor, Jack Ryan directs the fight back across the Pacific, from Washington to Saipan and Guam to Tokyo, as one man's act of vengeance drags two nations to the brink.

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   Washington

   As the American stock market is sabotaged into collapse, Jack Ryan is called out of retirement to the White House as National Security Advisor - and grasps that the economic chaos is the opening move of a hidden Japanese war.

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   Saipan

   Far out in the Pacific, Japanese troops step off airliners and quietly seize the Mariana Islands, occupying Saipan and reclaiming the ground where an industrialist's family died in the Second World War.

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   Guam

   With two U.S. carriers crippled and submarines sunk by 'accidental' torpedoes, the Navy fights to recover, and the battle for the Marianas and Guam becomes the hinge of a war neither government has declared.

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   Tokyo

   The reckoning reaches Tokyo itself, where the cabal that gambled a nation is broken - and a single act of terrible retaliation against Washington shows how thin the line to catastrophe has become.