Patriot Games Summary
Tom Clancy

Patriot Games Summary

Patriot Games by Tom Clancy, written in 1987, is a book that covers the issues of terrorism, specifically the "Irish" issue in terms of their wish for independence from England and the lengths to which some of the people are willing to go in order to achieve their goal. Jack Ryan is an Irish-American who teaches Naval History at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He, his wife, Cathy, and four-year-old daughter Sally are in London for a working vacation in The Mall just outside of Buckingham Palace when a terrorist attack sets off a grenade underneath a vehicle and gunmen shoot the driver and front seat passenger. Ryan, a former Marine, reacts without much thought. He knocks down one of the attackers and shoots the other. The people in the back of the car turn out to the Prince and Princess of Wales and... View more of the Patriot Games Summary