Jack Ryan Jr operates at the sharp end of global politics - where a gun is the diplomat's weapon of last resort.

So after the President of the United States finds his plan to keep the Russians out of Eastern Europe mysteriously thwarted, he needs to know who defeated him and why.

Despatched to Poland, Jack is on the lookout for enemies in both low and high places. What he doesn't expect to find is a conspiracy that circles around the globe right to the President's own back door in Washington DC.

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