Who wrote the 1989 novel A Clear and Present Danger?
"Clear and Present Danger (film) Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 American spy thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce and based on Tom Clancy's novel of the same name. It was preceded by the 1990 film ""The Hunt for Red October"" and the 1992 film ""Patriot Games"", all three featuring Clancy's character Jack Ryan. It is the last film version of Clancy's novels to feature Harrison Ford as Ryan and James Earl Jones as Vice Admiral James Greer, as well as the final installment directed by Noyce. As in the novel, Ryan is appointed CIA Acting Deputy Director, and"
"of All Fears"", Clancy then used his next novel ""Clear and Present Danger"" (1989) as a way to introduce future President Fowler. Speaking of the consistency, Clancy said: ""The whole series really is a logical and connected network of plot lines which would continue to diverge and converge throughout the body of the work."" The novel was notable for detailing the process in making a bomb; however, certain technical details were altered, and Clancy made clear in the novel's afterword that a lot of information in his book can be found in the public domain. The book received positive reviews."
"now vows to hunt down and kill Ryan, no matter how long it takes or what he has to do. Eventually Ryan and his family are attacked in two separate, but simultaneous attempts. Ryan decides to rejoin the CIA so that he is able to learn more about Miller and his group of Irish revolutionaries and protect those he loves. Clear and Present Danger (1994) has Jack Ryan appointed as acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence, as Vice Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones) has become sick with cancer. When a family close to the President is murdered in their"
"the central character, Clancy lambasted the new screenplay as “really awful” and criticized its technical inaccuracies. “First things first,” Clancy continued, “""Clear and Present Danger"" was the No. 1 best-selling novel of the 1980s. One might conclude that the novel’s basic story line had some quality to it. Why, then, has nearly every aspect of the book been tossed away?” Regarding the different ending, in which Ryan testified before Congress about the covert operations instead of privately confronting the President, Ford said: ”We have softened somewhat the political bias [Clancy] brings to the subject, not because we’re bleeding-heart liberals, but"
"""Clear and Present Danger"" (1994), which stars Harrison Ford. Jones also appeared in at least two episodes of ""Murder, She Wrote"", which starred Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher - a crime writer who also solves murders. On July 25, 1994, Jones was a guest on ""100 Huntley Street"". Jones' first marriage to Mae Inez Entwisle ended in divorce in 1970. They had two daughters. He was married to actress Lory Patrick from 1973 until his death in 2015. Lory had a son, Michael Patrick, who was Jones' stepson. Jones became a devout born-again Christian in 1973 or 1974. His book"
"A Dangerous Encounter A Dangerous Encounter () is a 1985 novel by the German writer Ernst Jünger. The story is set in Paris in the late 19th century and follows a murder investigation in a decadent aristocratic environment. The book was published in English in 1993, translated by Hilary Barr. ""Publishers Weekly"" reviewed the book in 1993, calling Junger's writing ""shimmering"" and ""imaginative"", and praised his portrayal of the character Ducasse, saying that the character is ""the last practitioner of a gentlemanly decadence which itself is the faded reflection of a bygone social structure."" Describing the flow of the book,"
"Sum of All Fears"". Starting in 2007, the F-16 became one of two aircraft (along with the Cirrus SR22) to be featured in Google Earth Flight Simulator. The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet appears in the 1994 film ""Clear and Present Danger"" which was directed by Phillip Noyce. The jet drops a laser-guided bomb on a car at a drug lord's villa, being laser designated by a special forces team. Barrett Tillman's 1992 novel ""The Sixth Battle (novel)"" includes two mythical Forrestal class aircraft carriers opposing a post-Soviet Russian fleet in the Indian Ocean. Both air wings include two F-18 squadrons"
"barge and rescue Smith and Margolin before it is too late. The author quotes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's ""The Arrow and the Song"": ""I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth I know not where."" Deep Six (novel) Deep Six is an English-language adventure novel by Clive Cussler published in the United States by Simon & Schuster in 1984. This is the seventh book featuring the author's primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt. When a mysterious and extremely deadly poison spreads through the waters off the coast of Alaska killing everything it comes in contact with, including several scientists and"
"Itself) in the German fantasy film ""Faraway, So Close!"", directed by Wim Wenders. Dafoe then co-starred in the spy thriller ""Clear and Present Danger"" (1994), an adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel of the name starring Harrison Ford as CIA operative Jack Ryan. Dafoe played John Clark, a CIA agent conducting a covert operation against a drug cartel in Colombia with Jack Ryan. Dafoe portrayed the poet T. S. Eliot in the drama ""Tom & Viv"" (also in 1994), which tells the story of Eliot and his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, who was played by Miranda Richardson. The film"
"Preserve and Protect Preserve and Protect is a 1968 political novel written by Allen Drury. It is the third sequel to ""Advise and Consent"", for which Drury was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960, and is followed by two alternate sequels of its own, ""Come Nineveh, Come Tyre"" (1973) and ""The Promise of Joy"" (1975). ""Advise and Consent"" and its sequels had been out of print for almost 15 years until WordFire Press reissued them in paperback and e-book format in 2014. After winning his party's nomination in ""Capable of Honor"", newly elected U.S. President Harley Hudson dies"
"Uncommon Danger Uncommon Danger is the second novel by British thriller writer Eric Ambler, published in 1937. In his autobiography, ""Here Lies"", Ambler explains the original title was ""Background To Danger"", but his British publisher disliked the word 'background', so it was published in all English-speaking countries except the US as ""Uncommon Danger"". Bessarabia has been a contested area between Russia and Romania since the Great War. It contains important oil fields. A Russian double-agent (Borovansky) has stolen Russian plans for a possible attack on Bessarabia. If these are made public it will whip up anti-Russian feeling in Romania and"
"Danger Key Danger Key is the sixteenth novel in the long-running Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels. Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE – a secret arm of the US intelligence services. The book was first published in 1966 (Number A183F) by Award Books part of the Beacon-Signal division of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation (New York, USA), part of the Conde Nast Publications Inc. The novel was written by Lew Louderback., Copyright was registered on 1 February 1966. The novel is set in March 1966. A CIA agent"
"Fear (Hubbard novella) Fear is a psychological thriller-horror novella by L. Ron Hubbard first appearing in ""Unknown Fantasy Fiction"" in July 1940. While previous editions followed the magazine text, the 1991 Bridge edition reportedly restores the author's original manuscript text. The novella is ranked 10th on Modern Library 100 Best Novels - The Reader's List. University professor James Lowry is a disbeliever in spirits or witches, or demons, so much so that he publishes an article in a newspaper denying the existence of them. He is warned of the possible repercussions by his friend Tommy Williams. That same afternoon his"
"1991 video game based on the novel, which is a global management simulation developed for Amiga. In a 1994 survey of wargames, ""Computer Gaming World"" gave the title one-plus stars out of five, stating that it ""utilized intensive bar graphs as a replacement for action and entertainment"". After the release of ""Clear and Present Danger"" (1994), a film based on the book was planned before it was deemed too difficult to adapt, resulting in producer Mace Neufeld purchasing the rights to ""The Sum of All Fears"". Harrison Ford was set to reprise his role as Jack Ryan, co-starring with William"
"and demons. J. Lanier Burns faults the novel in its weak understanding of personal responsibility for evil and sin, and a correspondingly poor sense of God's sovereignty. This Present Darkness This Present Darkness is a Christian novel by well-known suspense, horror, and fantasy author Frank E. Peretti. Published in 1986 by Crossway Books, ""This Present Darkness"" was Peretti's first published novel for adults and shows contemporary views on angels, demons, prayer, and spiritual warfare as demons and angels interact and struggle for control of the citizens of the small town of Ashton. It is critical of Eastern and New Age"
"its technical accuracy, which led to Clancy's meeting several high-ranking officers in the U.S. military. Clancy's fiction works, ""The Hunt for Red October"", ""Patriot Games"" (1987), ""Clear and Present Danger"" (1989), and ""The Sum of All Fears"" (1991), have been turned into commercially successful films with actors Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck as Clancy's most famous fictional character, Jack Ryan; his second most famous character, John Clark, has been played by actors Willem Dafoe and Liev Schreiber. All but two of Clancy's solely written novels feature Jack Ryan or John Clark. The Cold War epic ""Red Storm Rising"""
"Fear as ""a classic tale of creeping, surreal menace and horror"". Everett F. Bleiler found ""Fear"" to be ""a superior psychological mystery in sensational terms."" It has also warranted positive comments from authors ranging ""from Ray Bradbury to Isaac Asimov"". Fear (Hubbard novella) Fear is a psychological thriller-horror novella by L. Ron Hubbard first appearing in ""Unknown Fantasy Fiction"" in July 1940. While previous editions followed the magazine text, the 1991 Bridge edition reportedly restores the author's original manuscript text. The novella is ranked 10th on Modern Library 100 Best Novels - The Reader's List. University professor James Lowry is"
"played Félix Cortez, a former colonel of Cuban military intelligence in the Tom Clancy thriller, ""Clear and Present Danger"", co-starring Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe and Anne Archer. The film debuted at number one in the box office, earning a reported $20.5 million in the United States. ""Clear and Present Danger"" was a great success and was nominated for two Academy Awards. Later in 1994, Almeida starred in the romantic comedy ""Only You"", in which he plays a suave Italian businessman named Giovanni. According to ""The New York Times"", the film director and producer Norman Jewison said: ""I interviewed many actors"
"on June 5, 1992 and spent two weeks as the No. 1 film, grossing $178,051,587 in worldwide box office business. The next installment in the film series, ""Clear and Present Danger"", also starred Ford and Archer. Retired CIA analyst Jack Ryan is on vacation with his family in London. They witness a terrorist attack on Lord William Holmes, Minister of State for Northern Ireland. Ryan intervenes and is injured, but he kills one of the assailants, Patrick Miller, while his older brother Sean Miller looks on. The remaining attackers flee, as Sean is apprehended by the police. While recovering, Ryan"
"they continued, ""If the second half of the novel devolves into a rather unsatisfying francophonic Holmes and Watson riff, its beginning is a clear indication of Junger's talent. ""Kirkus Reviews"" called it ""a polished tale from the prolific Jünger, a 97-year-old author who's acclaimed in Europe but little known here"", and wrote: ""Delicately mannered and full of nuance, this is certainly subtle--but a side effect of its careful, quiet understatement is that it seems over before it's really begun"". A Dangerous Encounter A Dangerous Encounter () is a 1985 novel by the German writer Ernst Jünger. The story is set"
"This Present Darkness This Present Darkness is a Christian novel by well-known suspense, horror, and fantasy author Frank E. Peretti. Published in 1986 by Crossway Books, ""This Present Darkness"" was Peretti's first published novel for adults and shows contemporary views on angels, demons, prayer, and spiritual warfare as demons and angels interact and struggle for control of the citizens of the small town of Ashton. It is critical of Eastern and New Age spiritual practices, portraying meditation as a means of demonic possession. This book sold in excess of 2.5 million copies worldwide and remained on the CBA top best"
"Threat Vector Threat Vector is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and co-written with Mark Greaney, and published on December 4, 2012. A direct sequel to ""Locked On"" (2011), President Jack Ryan and The Campus must prevent a Chinese expansionist government from enacting war in the South China Sea. The book debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. President of China Wei Zhen Lin has been dealing with mounting political opposition over his country's economic recession. He tries to commit suicide in order to avoid his inevitable arrest when he is prevented by General Su"
"The Princess and the Queen The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens is a novella by George R. R. Martin, published in the 2013 Tor Books anthology ""Dangerous Women"". Set in the Westeros of Martin's ""A Song of Ice and Fire"" series, 200 years before the events of ""A Game of Thrones"" (1996), it chronicles the ""continent-burning warfare"" (called the ""Dance of Dragons"") that explodes between Targaryen Princess Rhaenyra and her stepmother, Queen Alicent. The work is presented as the writing of the fictional Archmaester Gyldayn, also the ""author"" of Martin's 2014 novella ""The Rogue Prince"","
"Red Alert (novel) Red Alert is a 1958 novel by Peter George about nuclear war. The book was the underlying inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film ""Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"". Kubrick's film differs significantly from the novel in that it is a black comedy. Originally published in the UK as Two Hours to Doom, with George using the pseudonym ""Peter Bryant"" (Bryan Peters for the French translation, ""120 minutes pour sauver le monde""), the novel deals with the apocalyptic threat of nuclear war and the almost absurd ease with which it"
"Sweet Danger Sweet Danger is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in October 1933, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in the United States by The Crime Club as Kingdom of Death; later US versions used the title The Fear Sign. It is the fifth adventure of the mysterious Albert Campion, aided as usual by his butler/valet/bodyguard Magersfontein Lugg. When Averna, a tiny but oil-rich principality on the Adriatic Sea, becomes a vital port after an earthquake, Albert Campion is called in to track down proof that the land belongs to an aristocratic family, believed long"
"danger. A Fine Dark Line A Fine Dark Line is a 2002 novel by American writer Joe R. Lansdale. The story is set in Dumont, Texas in 1958. This novel was issued as a limited edition by Subterranean Press and as a trade hardcover and a trade paperback by Mysterious Press. Both hardcover editions are now out of print. A trade paperback was published by Mysterious Press on October 1, 2003. The story is told through the eyes of Stanley Mitchell, a thirteen-year-old boy, the younger of two children. The Mitchells are the owners and proprietors of the only drive-in"
"but does not specify how or on which side, and the situation does not resolve itself before the end of the novel. Preserve and Protect Preserve and Protect is a 1968 political novel written by Allen Drury. It is the third sequel to ""Advise and Consent"", for which Drury was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960, and is followed by two alternate sequels of its own, ""Come Nineveh, Come Tyre"" (1973) and ""The Promise of Joy"" (1975). ""Advise and Consent"" and its sequels had been out of print for almost 15 years until WordFire Press reissued them in"
"attention of Hollywood studios – ""Dead Calm"" (1988) which launched the career of Nicole Kidman. Moving with his young family to the United States in 1991, Noyce directed five films over the following eight years, of which ""Clear and Present Danger"", starring Harrison Ford, was the most successful, critically and commercially, grossing $216 million. After 1999's ""Bone Collector"" starring Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington, Noyce decided to return to his native Australia for Stolen Generations saga"" Rabbit-Proof Fence"", which won the AFI Award for Best Film in 2002. He has described ""Rabbit-Proof Fence"" as ""easily"" his proudest moment as a"
"Game of Danger Game of Danger is a 1962 thriller novel by Lois Duncan. Teenager Annie and her young brother Rob receive a phone call from their mother instructing them to leave their home in the middle of the night with an important letter. The two arrive at the bus terminal at 2 AM and leave for the home of a family friend at their mother's urging; meanwhile, newspaper headlines regarding Annie and Rob's father and his alleged communist ties begin to circulate. The children's embarking leads them on an odyssey to uncover the truth. A review published by ""Kirkus"
"Sudden Threat Sudden Threat is the first book of the Threat Series written by A.J. Tata. Along with the U.S. Armed Forces, CIA paramilitary operative Matt Garrett faces growing Islamic extremism, the reemergence of the Empire of the Sun in the Global War on Terror, and a secret group of ""defense politicos"" in Washington D.C. Tata dedicated this book to three of his fallen comrades. He had served with them during his time in the United States Army. Two of the soldiers were killed in Iraq. The other was killed in Afghanistan. ""Sudden Threat"" has gotten mostly negative reviews. W.H."
"and a 'safety net' preventing disorder and chaos. The Safety Net The Safety Net () is a 1979 novel by Heinrich Böll. An English translation by Leila Vennewitz was published in 1981. The story centres on Fritz Tolm, an aging art historian turned newspaper publisher, who is elected as the head of the ""Association"", which is a secretive ""power centre"" in West Germany composed of bankers, industrialists and high-ranking members of the media. He replaces the steel magnate Pliefger. In particular it explores the way that he is subjected to a huge amount of security as a result of his"
"The Bear and the Dragon The Bear and the Dragon is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on August 21, 2000. A direct sequel to ""Executive Orders"" (1996), President Jack Ryan deals with a war between Russia and China, referred respectively in the title as the Russian Bear and the Chinese Dragon. At over 1,028 pages, it is Clancy's longest novel. The book debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. In Moscow, SVR director Sergey Golovko survives an attack on his way to work, when a car identical to the armored white Mercedes"
"True Faith and Allegiance True Faith and Allegiance (stylized as Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance, Tom Clancy: True Faith and Allegiance, or Tom Clancy’s True Faith and Allegiance in the United Kingdom) is a political thriller, written by Mark Greaney and released on December 6, 2016. In the book, President Jack Ryan and The Campus must contain a massive intelligence breach that has been responsible for a series of terrorist attacks on American military and intelligence personnel. ""True Faith and Allegiance"" is Greaney’s last book in the Jack Ryan series, which is part of the Tom Clancy universe. It"