Sum of All Fears

[RRAM]

thanks edited

[midnight Target]

Almost correct RRAMThe Jack Ryan Series:

The Hunt for Red October (1984) - Ryan is CIA analyst...you know.
Patriot Games (1987) - Jack foils the Irish terrorists, asked to join CIA by Greer, actually a prequel to Red October.
The Cardinal of Kremlin (1988) Star Wars, Jack saves a highly placed spy.
Clear and Present Danger (1989) - Jack is made Acting Dept. Director on Greers death, Cocaine is bad...mmmkay.
The Sum of All Fears (1991) - Terrorists get a bomb, Jack is Dept. Director, booom.
Debt of Honor (1994) Ryan comes out of retirement to be NSA. War with Japan. Sworn in as VP at the end of this book.
Executive Orders (1996) - Ryan is POTUS.
Bear & Dragon? - Struggling through it now....Clancy politics instead of good fiction.

[Sikboy]

You're going by publication date right Tah Gut? RRAM is going by story chronology I believe. Although I have no idea if his chronology is correct.


-Sikboy

[Eagler]

I think the decompression chamber "incentive" from Without Remorse could be used on our terrorist captives  ... just need a Clark to hold the "interviews"

[midnight Target]

Yes, but only the first 2 are out of order chronologically. See my edit above.

[Sikboy]

So RRAM had it right, except that where he's from the split the publication of the last two tomes, and he added Without Remorse, which while not a "Jack Ryan" book, is somewhat important to the series (although in that respect, I suppose Rainbow 6 should be in there too... I'm so confused lol)

-Sikboy
(who tried to read several but only thought "Red Storm Rising", and "Hunt for Red October" were very interesting)

[koala]

They're butchering the whole plot in the movie because it's not PC to implicate Arabs these days.

I won't be going to the movies for this one.

[Eagler]

Originally posted by koala
They're butchering the whole plot in the movie because it's not PC to implicate Arabs these days.

I won't be going to the movies for this one.

Or they don't want to shed anymore bad light on Israel as in the book wasn't the nuclear device off a lost Israeli weapon?

[weazel]

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[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Sikboy
So RRAM had it right, except that where he's from the split the publication of the last two tomes, and he added Without Remorse, which while not a "Jack Ryan" book, is somewhat important to the series (although in that respect, I suppose Rainbow 6 should be in there too... I'm so confused lol)

-Sikboy
(who tried to read several but only thought "Red Storm Rising", and "Hunt for Red October" were very interesting)

Doh!, yes he did. I stand as a testament to long term loss of short term memory. RRAM.

[Sikboy]

lol I have a headache now

-Sikboy

[AKDejaVu]

So... I still think Afleck is way too young to play Jack Ryan in Sum of All fears.

The same character can only be a young upcoming inteligence officer in so many movies.

AKDejaVu

[Mathman]

Without Remorse is my favorite Clancy.  After that, it is a toss up between Clear and Present Danger and The Hunt for Red October.

[mauser]

Agreed, Animal and DJV about Afleck.  When I first saw something on TV about the new movie and saw Ben Afleck as Jack Ryan I thought "wtf?!"  Dunno who would be a good substitute though.. Ford fits too well.

mauser

[Dux]

I'm not big on Affleck. I guess the Clancy movies have entered the Roger Moore phase.

I thought Baldwin was good as Ryan... at least at the point in his life when Red October happened. Ford is good in anything. (K19 looks great!)

Animal, I thought the actor who played Chavez in C&PD was perfect. That was the same character that becomes his son-in-law in Rainbow Six. But John Leguizamo is good, too. He played a convincing commando in Executive Decision (I think that's the title... Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal)