300th Blog!!!!! Tom Clancy Week: Patriot Games

Hello you wild and wacky kids to Day 2 of Tom Clancy Week and my 300^th blog!!!!  Yeah I am shocked too but there it is.  So let’s make this a good one for the late great Clancy and your reading attention span.  What say we follow the Ryan clan as for as England for a vacation…or is it?  Who would have predicted an assassination attempt on one of the Royals via a splinter radical group of the IRA?  Well about anyone that has read some Clancy knows that actions and consequences are always going down around the world so grab your fish and chips, mind the traffic and dodge some submachine gun fire.  This is Patriot Games.

 

O' Paddy Wagon. hehe.

Paddy O’Neil: The day that I sell out my countrymen, will be the day that I put a bullet through my own spoiler.

Now a professor of Naval Academy tactics and military history Doctor Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford of American Graffiti, Star Wars, Force 10 from Navarone, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner and Witness), his surgeon wife Doctor Cathy Ryan (Anne Archer of Falcon Crest, Fatal Attraction, Narrow Margin, Body of Evidence and The Art of War) and daughter Sally (Thora Birch of Parenthood, Hocus Pocus, Now and Then, American Beauty, Dungeons & Dragons and Ghost World) have made their way to Buckingham Palace to see the sights when a cadre of armed men shoot at the cousin of the Queen, Lord Holmes.  Moving his wife and daughter to safety; Jack then takes on the armed gunmen with guts and determination ending up killing one of the gunmen a boy of 15.  Jack is wounded and the local authorities come in to secure the scene.  

Football disagreement English and Irish.

Jack after released from the hospital testifies to what he saw and did in court seeing the man was hosing a car down with lead, Sean Miller (Sean Bean of Black Beauty, GoldenEye, Ronin, Don’t Say a Word, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hitcher and Silent Hill) sentenced to rot on Albany Prison when his prison convoy is ambushed by his team, springing him.  His commanding officer Kevin O’Donnell (Patrick Bergin of Robin Hood, Highway to Hell, Love Crimes, The Island on Bird Street and One Man’s Hero) tells them they are off to hide out in North Africa to plot the next attack on Lord Holmes. 

Soon after arriving at home Cathy and Sally are attacked on the way back after school in Maryland.  With his wife and daughter surviving the assault Jack takes back his old office with the CIA under his mentor Admiral Greer (James Earl Jones of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Star Wars, Conan the Barbarian, The Flight of Dragons and Clear and Present Danger) O’ Donnell’s crew gets wind of this schedule change and they plan to wipe them all out.  Miller consumed by grief wants Ryan and his family dead for the life of his brother and O’ Donnell gives him his blessing to get him back in the game afterwards.   Jack is knighted on behalf of the realm and saving Lord Holmes is treated to dinner with him and the Ryan family invites him to visit their home and enjoy dinner with them.  

Thinking coming to work in a fedora and a whip, fellas.

What will happen next???   Well go watch the film already. ;)  Thank you all for giving this blog a look over and as always I appreciate the comments, compliments and suggestions!