Rainbow Six

Originally published in 1996, a thriller in which Jack Ryan is faced with crushing responsibilities when he becomes the new President of the US after a jumbo jet crashes into the Capitol Building in Washington, leaving the President dead, along with most of the Cabinet and Congress. From the author SSN.

Clancy's hero Jack Ryan fights to defend the USA against economic sabotage from the East. Called out of retirement to serve as the new National Security Advisor, Ryan soon realizes that the problems of peace are as complex as those of war.

A look at the operational art of war as practised in the Gulf conflict, as seen through the eyes of General Frederick M. Francks, Jr. General Francks commanded the ramour and infantry of VII Corps, the main coalition force that broke the back of Iraq's Republican Guard.

Jake Grafton, former Vietnam air-wing commander, has been assigned to the Pentagon. His orders are to lead the development of the navy's new top-secret attack plane. But he soon finds himself drawn into a hunt for the Minotaur - a hidden mole selling America's most precious defence secrets.

In this title, America is facing its worst nightmare - and Jake Grafton his most deadly challenge yet.

When Lieutenant Colonel Patrick McLanahan is offered the chance to test-fly a new B-2 bomber in strategic warfare training sorties, he jumps at the chance. This is McLanahan's chance to reconfirm his flying skills. By the author of Flight of the Old Dog and Hammerheads.

Terrorists working to stop the building of a power plant threaten to trigger an earthquake on California's coast line. An FBI expert warns that the individual behind the threat is sane, capable and serious. If he causes the earthquake millions of lives will be at risk.

A death at a funfair - and Bourne must face his nemesis... The third Jason Bourne novel.

President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis. Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn and in Moscow someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR with a rocket-propelled grenade. Even more disturbing may be the identities of the assassins. Were they the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB or something far more dangerous at work?

The old certainties of the Cold War have been swept away by the new tide of detente that has washed over the superpowers. But even if international superpower relations have changed, human nature has not altered very much. The new powder keg is the Middle East where this adventure story is set.