Tom Clancy · 1996 · thriller

Tom Clancy's 1996 thriller. Sworn in as president amid the smoking ruins of a decapitated government, Jack Ryan faces catastrophe on every side - a deliberate Ebola epidemic seeded across America, and a new United Islamic Republic under a fanatical ayatollah in Tehran that hurls its armies at Saudi Arabia. Ryan must hold a reeling nation together and win a war in the Persian Gulf.

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   Washington

   Thrust into the presidency when an airliner destroys the Capitol and nearly the whole U.S. government, Jack Ryan struggles to rebuild a shattered administration as unseen enemies move to exploit America's sudden weakness.

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   Tehran

   In Tehran, a ruthless ayatollah welds Iran and Iraq into a single United Islamic Republic and looses a biological plague on America, meaning to paralyze it while he seizes the oil heart of the Middle East.

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   The Persian Gulf

   As UIR armor rolls toward Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Ryan pours a thin American force into the Persian Gulf to stop them - a desperate desert battle that will decide whether his crippled nation stands or falls.