Air Force and NATO allies, in the process completely annihilating two Chinese Shock-Army formations and severely damaging two others. Russia eventually repels the Chinese with help from the United States Army, U.S. China invades despite international assistance pledged to Russia. The operation includes attempting to murder the Russian President and his top-ranking advisor.In an attempt to dissuade China from invading Russia, President Jack Ryan persuades NATO to admit Russia and personally promises assistance to Russia's President Grushavoy. With its cash holdings dwindling due to recent military expansions, China decides to hasten its planned invasion of Siberia in order to access the newly discovered oil and gold fields. In reaction, most nations impose a trade boycott on the PRC. In the process, one of the on site policemen who mistakenly beleives his partner is being attacked puts a bullet through the cardinal's spleen.
Due to the quick actions of his former Spetsnaz Gru bodyguard/chauffer, he survives when his would be attackers mistakenly target another individual in an identical car who happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.A roving CNN news team in China captures on tape the murder of Cardinal Renato di Milo, the Papal Nuncio to Beijing, and a Chinese Baptist minister, Yu Fa An, while attempting to stop Chinese authorities from performing a forced late-term abortion on a member of Yu's congregation. But China decides to speed up its plan to invade Siberia, which had been delayed after the defeat of Japan in the book Debt of Honor.Plot SummaryIn the prologue Sergy Golovko, the chairman of the SVR and friend of President Ryan, is being chaufered to his workplace in an armoured white Mercedes S-600 when somebody shoots at him with an RPG7.
After Russia discovers oil fields rivaling those of the Persian Gulf in Siberia and gold deposits just as big, it looks as if the struggling Russian economy is on the road to recovery. Plot IntroductionIn the book Jack Ryan is President of the United States. If they fail.the consequences will be unspeakable.īlending the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, razor-sharp suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters, this is Clancy at his best-and there is none better.Glog text The Bear byTom Clancy The Dragon & If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same. For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops specialist John Clark, to find out the truth of the matter, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, or disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here? Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the potential assassins. Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn there's a revolution in Liberia the Asian economy is going down the tubes and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR-the former KGB-with a rocket-propelled grenade. In The Bear and the Dragon, the future is very near at hand indeed. Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.
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