A formative episode in the life of the Clancy’s character John Kelly, known as “Mr Clark”. In Vietnam, special operations veteran Kelly was known as “the snake” – the man whose footsteps no one ever heard. Now, in 1970, back in the USA, footsteps were all around him.
Ben Tyson is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest handsome family man, admired by men and desired by women. But sixteen years ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam. There, in 1968, the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity – and together swore never to tell the world what(…)
A fanatical militia roam the northern seas, ready to take on all comers in the name of a self-proclaimed vision of France. To track down the maverick militia and bring them to justice is a task for the agent they call “The Butcher”.
Paul Chavasse was set for a quiet evening when he noticed the old women standing in the shadows opposite the house. The message from the past that she conveyed was to have dramatic and far reaching consequences, involving a daring adventure in Chinese-occupied Tibet.
For Karen Burns, a talented young photographer, it was only natural to go to New York to chase her dreams. And it was only normal–just to pay the rent while she waited for her big chance–to work as a nanny for a young power couple, an attorney and his socialite wife, watching their two children.(…)