CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER is the

phenomenal new international bestseller from the

author of The Hunt For Red October, Red Storm Rising,

Patriot Games and, most recently, The Cardinal Of

The Kremlin, which was hailed by critics as his

finest novel to date. Terrific characters, the

authentic feel of espionage, a superlative rendering

of modern warfare wrote Bob Woodward in the

Washington Post. With his four previous novels

Tom Clancy has, in the space of five years, joined the

very top rank of international superselling authors,

and his novels have become bywords for uncanny

authenticity linked with nerve-stopping excitement.

Now, in his fifth novel, Clancy delivers yet again,

with a story as explosive and compelling as today s

headlines.

At what point, the novel asks, does criminal activity

begin to threaten the security of the nation? When

can a nation respond to such activity as it would to

an enemy? These are the questions Jack Ryan must

consider when he hears the shocking news:

Colombian drug lords, tired of being harassed by

U.S. law enforcement agents, have assassinated the

American Ambassador and the visiting head of the

F.B.I.- and that is just the beginning. Their message

is clear: leave us alone.

But they have pushed too far. Someone steps quietly

over the line they have drawn, deploying covert-

action teams in Colombia. At home, too, men

armed with the most sophisticated tools their

country can devise begin to take the fight to the

enemy. But does anyone know who the real enemy

is, and how much action is too much? Who is doing

what? Which lines have been crossed? Ryan and his

dark side , a shadowy field officer known only as

Mr Clark, must find out. They expect danger from

without. But the greatest danger of all may be

from within.