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Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan Novels)
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Tom Clancy
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Razio Yamata is one of Japan's most influential industrialists, and part of a relatively small group of authority who wield tremendous authority in the Pacific Rim's economic powerhouse. He has devised a plan to cripple the American greatness, humble the U.S. military, and elevate Japan to a position of dominance on the world stage. Yamata's motivation lies in his desire to pay off a Debt of Honor to his parents and to the country he feels is responsible for their deaths: America. All he needs is a catalyst to set his plan in motion. When the faulty gas tank on one Tennessee family's car leads to their fiery death, an opportunistic U.S. congressman uses the occasion to rush a new trade law through the system. The law is designed to squeeze Japan economically. Instead, it provides Yamata with the leverage he needs to put his plan into action. As Yamata's plan begins to unfold, it becomes clear to the world that someone is launching a fully integrated operation against the United States. There's only one man to find out who the culprit is: Jack Ryan, the new president's National Security Advisor.
Razio Yamata is one of Japan's most influential industrialists, and part of a relatively small group of authority who wield tremendous authority in the Pacific Rim's economic powerhouse. He has devised a plan to cripple the American greatness, humble the U.S. military, and elevate Japan to a position of dominance on the world stage.
Yamata's motivation lies in his desire to pay off a Debt of Honor to his parents and to the country he feels is responsible for their deaths: America. All he needs is a catalyst to set his plan in motion. When the faulty gas tank on one Tennessee family's car leads to their fiery death, an opportunistic U.S. congressman uses the occasion to rush a new trade law through the system. The law is designed to squeeze Japan economically. Instead, it provides Yamata with the leverage he needs to put his plan into action. As Yamata's plan begins to unfold, it becomes clear to the world that someone is launching a fully integrated operation against the United States. There's only one man to find out who the culprit is: Jack Ryan, the new president's National Security Advisor.
Debt of Honor (1994) is a novel by Tom Clancy. It is a continuation of the series featuring his character "Jack Ryan". In this installment, Ryan has become the National Security Advisor when the Japanese government (controlled by a group of corporate tycoons, called the Zaibatsu) goes to war with the United States. In an attempt to cripple the U.S. Navy (as part of a grand plan involving China and India to radically alter the global power balance), the Japanese attack American submarines and ships and occupy American-held Pacific islands. Simultaneously, the Japanese cabal engineers the collapse of the American stock market. Thus, America is both economically and militarily at a disadvantage, which Japan hopes to exploit.
Again, with the derring-do of various parts of the armed forces, under the wise direction of the President (with Ryan's advice), the U.S. prevails over the forces of evil.
After the real-life September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks, the book will be largely be remembered for its disturbingly prophetic conclusion, in which an embittered Japanese airline pilot crashes his Boeing 747 into the U.S. Capitol building during a joint session of Congress with the President attending. This paves the way for Ryan, who has just been appointed Vice President, to become President in the next book, Executive Orders.
Average Customer Rating:
Great Read, 5 Stars
Japanese industrialists have a debt to pay. Their parents where killed when the americans landed on saipan and are determined to ruin america as we know it. They cripple are stock market attack 2 aircaft carriers and sink 2 submarines. It ends in war. The last chapter is worth the price of the book alone. It is the 8th book in the Jack Ryan Series. Wonder why it isn't a movie yet.
Solid book that presages some of China's thinking on "Unlimited Warfare"
Japan is the improbable enemy in this novel, making the book a bit dated. Replace "Japan" with "China" and the thesis holds together rather well in 2005.
Nevertheless, "Debt of Honor" is a well-written, well-researched and imaginative novel. It describes how economic warfare can be merged with military and information operations to create tremendous havoc in today's world. In this regard, "Debt of Honor" is worth reading for any student of world affairs - or for any person facing a few transcontinental flights.
The most boring book I have ever read
I thought Tom Clancy was a great writer after reading Hunt For Red October and Red Storm Rising. But this novel I found virtually impenetrable. It takes hundreds of apges for anything to actauly happen. Japanese men soaking in hot tubs discussing economics isn't my idea of a gripping read. And for the family killed in a car accident to we really need to know that the baby "did a job" beforehand? To me that's simply pointless detail that slows down the narrative to a crawl. And at 1000+ pages that style of writing is going to really wear a reader down. In all truth I skipped about half this book out of tedium.
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