Patriot Games

Patriot Games (1987) is a novel by Tom Clancy. It is chronologically the second book (after Without Remorse) featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan, the main character in almost all of Clancy's novels. It is the indirect sequel to Without Remorse. The title comes from an Irish Rebel Song called The Patriot Game, an Irish ballad about the Border Campaign in Northern Ireland.

Plot summary

Ryan saves the Prince of Wales and his family from a breakaway Irish terrorist group, the Ulster Liberation Army, who go after Ryan and his family, partially as an act of revenge, but primarily because they seek to undermine public (and specifically American) support for the PIRA. The ULA plans a strike against Jack Ryan and his family. The assassin sent to kill Ryan is intercepted before he manages to complete his task, but Ryan's wife, Cathy, and daughter, Sally, are hurt by the terrorists. This convinces Jack to take an offer the CIA had given him, to start working as an analyst in Langley, Virginia. Later, the Prince and the Princess of Wales come to visit Ryan in America. This gives the ULA another opportunity to conduct another operation to weaken the support for the PIRA. They plan an operation, involving the killing of Jack Ryan and his family, kidnapping the Royal Family, and assassinating senior PIRA leaders—so the leader of the ULA could take over.

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

The novel was adapted as a feature film in 1992. See Patriot Games. It stars Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan.

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