Debt of Honor
First edition cover
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| Author | Tom Clancy |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Jack Ryan universe |
| Genre | Techno-thriller |
| Publisher | Putnam |
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1994 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 766 (hardback edition) 990 (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | (hardback edition) |
| OCLC | 30739194 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3553.L245 D43 1994 |
| Preceded by | The Sum of All Fears |
| Followed by | Executive Orders |
Debt of Honor (1994) is a thriller 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 known as the Zaibatsu) goes to war with the United States. One of the sub-plots in this novel (on occupying the Siberian "Northern Resource Area") would later form part of the main plot of Clancy's later novel The Bear and the Dragon.
In New York City, Japanese industrialist Raizo Yamata purchases a controlling interest in an American mutual fund group. He flies to Saipan and visits Banzai Cliff — the site of his parents' suicide during the American invasion of the island at the close of World War II — to buy a large tract of land.
Meanwhile, in eastern Tennessee, a car accident involving two Japanese-made vehicles leads to the deaths of six people. Revelations about manufacturing and shipping errors that led to the deaths stir long-standing resentment against Japan's protectionist trade policies. As trade negotiations between the United States and Japan grind to a halt, Congress passes a law enabling the U.S. to mirror the trade practices of the countries from which it imports goods. The bill is immediately used to reciprocate Japan's non-tariff barriers, cutting off the U.S. export markets upon which the Japanese economy depends.
Facing an economic crisis, Japan's ruling corporate cabal, led by Yamata, decides to take military action against the U.S. Along with covert support from China and India, they plot to curtail the American presence in the Pacific and re-establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In the wake of these developments, Jack Ryan is recruited as National Security Advisor by President Roger Durling. Meanwhile, CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez are sent to Japan to reactivate a former KGB commercial spy network (codename THISTLE) in order to gain intelligence.
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