Red Rabbit

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.

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?

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.

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

With intricate plotting, authenticity and suspense, this novel offers classic Tom Clancy. When Op-Centre are called upon to combat a new threat to the safety and security of the free world, international intrigue and exciting action are sure to follow.

On the surface it seems a simple case: a group of African militiamen have kidnapped a priest and ordered all Catholic missionaries to leave Botswana. The Vatican thinks otherwise and at its urging the Op-Centre investigate to discover a plot to destabilise the government and seize the nation's diamond mines.

After years of fending off challenges from the world's most dangerous terrorists, Op-Centre has been brought to heel by the US Congress. A short-sighted committee has cut Paul Hood's budget, and the first victim is his friend Mike Rodgers. But General Rodgers may not be looking for work for very long.

The USA is under seige. Terrorist Henri Cazaux has been using large commercial aircraft to drop explosives on major US airports. When he unleashes a cargo of explosives on San Francisco airport, the national panic reaches all the way to the White House.

What would happen if members of the Roman Curia discovered that the Pope was about to publicly state that he had received a private revelation that the world was about to end - an apocalypse coming at any moment? Is he a madman, as his cardinals suspect, a mystic, or a fanatic grasping for an unholy power?

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.