Based upon the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst,
is thrust right in the middle of a power struggle within the Colombian
drug cartel after one of the President's "life long" friends is
murdered, apparently in retaliation for stealing money as part of a
money laundering scheme for the cartel. Jack is then appointed acting
Deputy Director of Intelligence, CIA, upon the terminal illness of
Admiral James Greer, former DDI, and quickly gets in over his head due
to his political naivete. The situation rapidly deteriorates when some
of the presidents men convince the President to conduct covert actions
against the cartel, in direct violation of congress. Felix Cortez, the
security chief of Ernesto Escobeda, the "victim" of the missing money,
is one of the cartel boss's. Cortez tries to play both sides, appearing
to inform Escobeda about the CIA's involvement in the covert operations
against him, while trying to orchestrate a coup to take over the
cartel, with Cortez as it's sole boss. James Cutter, the President's
National Security Advisor, makes his own deal with Cortez, with the
Presidents knowledge, and halts communications to the covert troops
still in Columbia, through the Deputy Director of Operations, CIA,
Robert Ritter. Ryan ends up going to Columbia to rescue the covet ops
troops with the help of field agent John Clark, but not before some
fence mending between the two, being that Ritter blamed Ryan for the
comm outage, with Clark's men subsequently being captured by Cortez's
mercenaries.
Summary written by: Bill Walch {TheWalchs@aol.com} |
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