I meant to add that this novel, and the reason why I am rereading it ten years later, contains two major predictions of Clancy’s. One was flying a passenger jet into a building as a weapon, which is how it ends. The other is a nice description of the follies of programmed trading and how the stock market can be taken down with the derivatives. Clancy is a very good futurist. The story is about a war with Japan and the new George Friedman book, The Next 100 Years, predicts a war with Japan later this century.