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and opportunistic CIA agent (codename SPINNAKER). His false reports to the CIA unfortunately reinforces the narrative that
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Durling. At the beginning of the book, she finally achieves the position using a sex scandal against Dr. Charles Alden, and nearly derails Ryan's plan by withholding a new radar system from Israel to coerce them to accept the deal. Holding a grudge on Ryan from their first encounter (depicted in
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Germans disguised as Soviet soldiers. The terrorists are trying to begin a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The East Germans hope that the war will eliminate both superpowers and punish the Soviets for betraying
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game, and moreover, the same database entry is also found in many of the sequels. That entry mentions in passing that "the Denver, Colorado atomic detonation in 1989". That information might not be canonical, since the book is set
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Goodley rethink his initial opinions of Eliot and
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1983:The Teeth of the Tiger
1766:"The Sum of All Fears"
1590:, which is a tactical
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2052:Full Force and Effect
1649:Greenberg, Martin H.
1588:video game adaptation
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2427:Novels by Tom Clancy
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2345:The Sum of All Fears
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1509:Mark 39 nuclear bomb
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1313:The Sum of All Fears
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1085:juvenile delinquency
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199:The Sum of All Fears
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