Tom Clancy · 1993 · thriller

Tom Clancy's 1993 novel. Navy veteran John Kelly wages a one-man war on the Baltimore drug ring that murdered the woman he loved - even as he is recruited for a covert return to the war that made him: a daring raid deep into North Vietnam to rescue American prisoners from a hidden jungle camp. Two campaigns of vengeance and duty that forge the man who will become John Clark.

1. 1
   Baltimore

   Grieving the murder of the young woman he had begun to save, the ex-SEAL John Kelly turns hunter on the streets of Baltimore, stalking and destroying the drug ring that killed her - a private, merciless war in the shadows.

2. 2
   The South China Sea

   Drawn back to his old trade, Kelly ships out to the Western Pacific, where a carrier and a team of picked men prepare a desperate operation against the enemy coast under the code name that will define the rest of his life.

3. 3
   North Vietnam

   Slipping up a jungle river deep into North Vietnam, Kelly leads the raid on a hidden prison camp to bring home a handful of forgotten American captives - the mission where the man called Kelly begins to become John Clark.