Debt of Honor

Zusatztext Praise for Debt of Honor “A heart-stopping climax.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Breathtaking.”— Los Angeles Times   “[A] crackling good read.”— The Washington Times More Praise for Tom Clancy “He constantly taps the current world situation for its imminent dangers and spins them into an engrossing tale.”— The New York Times Book Review “A brilliant describer of events.”— The Washington Post “No one can equal his talent for making military electronics and engineering intelligible and exciting...He remains the best!”— Houston Chronicle Informationen zum Autor A little more than thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Years before, he had been an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel. His first effort, The Hunt for Red October —the first of the phenomenally successful Jack Ryan novels—sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it “the perfect yarn.” From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He passed away in October 2013. Klappentext Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski! THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK RYAN NOVEL "A harrowing tale…Clancy keeps you riveted with political intrigue and military maneuvering [and] sends you rushing headlong to the book's stunning conclusion."-USA Today Bestselling author Tom Clancy takes a bold! incisive look at what our nation's leaders are calling "the new world order." The time and place: a world at peace! where yesterday's enemies are tomorrow's allies. The players: Jack Ryan as the new U.S. President's National Security Advisor! and his CIA colleagues! John Clark and Domingo Chavez. The crisis: a shocking chain of events in which the wages of peace are as fully complex-and devastating-as those of war. "[Debt of Honor] traces the financial! political! military! and personal machinations that drive America into the next major global war…A SHOCKER."-Entertainment Weekly Prologue Sunset, Sunrise In retrospect, it would seem an odd way to start a war. Only one of the participants knew what was really happening, and even that was a coincidence. The property settlement had been moved up on the calendar due to a death in the attorney's family, and so the attorney was scheduled for a redeye flight, two hours from now, to Hawaii. It was Mr. Yamata's first property closing on American soil. Though he owned many properties in the continental United States, the actual title transfer had always been handled by other attorneys, invariably American citizens, who had done precisely what they had been paid to do, generally with oversight by one of Mr. Yamata's employees. But not this time. There were several reasons for it. One was that the purchase was personal and not corporate. Another was that it was close, only two hours by private jet from his home. Mr. Yamata had told the settlement attorney that the property would be used for a weekend getaway house. With the astronomical price of real estate in Tokyo, he could buy several hundred acres for the price of a modestly large penthouse apartment in his city of residence. The view from the house he planned to build on the promontory would be breathtaking, a vista of the blue Pacific, other islands of the Marianas Archipelago in the distance, air as clean as any on the face of the earth. For all those reasons Mr. Yamata had offered a princely fee, and done so with a charming smile. And for one reason more. The various docume...

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Praise for Debt of Honor

A heart-stopping climax. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Breathtaking. Los Angeles Times
 
[A] crackling good read. The Washington Times

More Praise for Tom Clancy

He constantly taps the current world situation for its imminent dangers and spins them into an engrossing tale. The New York Times Book Review

A brilliant describer of events. The Washington Post

No one can equal his talent for making military electronics and engineering intelligible and exciting...He remains the best! Houston Chronicle

Product details

• Authors: Tom Clancy
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.08.1995
• EAN: 9780425147580
• ISBN: 978-0-425-14758-0
• No. of pages: 990
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 180 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Berkley Books; Jack Ryan; A Jack Ryan Novel; JACK RYAN; A Jack Ryan Novel
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage