Tom Clancy · 1987 · thriller

Tom Clancy's 1987 thriller. On holiday in London, CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles into a terrorist attack and kills one of an IRA splinter cell, saving a royal life - and marking himself and his family for revenge. The vendetta follows him home across the Atlantic to the Chesapeake shore of Maryland, where the killers come at last for a final, violent reckoning.

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   London

   Vacationing in London with his family, Jack Ryan throws himself into a terrorist ambush on a royal party, killing one gunman and capturing another - a reckless act of courage that makes him a hero, and a target.

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   Annapolis

   Home in Maryland, Ryan returns to teaching at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, but the surviving members of the Ulster splinter cell have sworn vengeance, and begin to track him and his family across the ocean.

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   The Chesapeake

   On a stormy night the terrorists strike at Ryan's home on the shore of Chesapeake Bay, and the long vendetta explodes into a final, desperate battle to protect everyone he loves.