Tom Clancy Week: Clear and Present Danger

How do avid readers and welcome back for Day 3 of Tom Clancy Week.  You might be wondering if I have enough films for this week and well yes that would be correct.  There all nerves are calmed.  Shh, shh, shhh…  Moving right along I think it is time for some scandalous behavior from the government…kinda like taking their marbles and going home.  Will Jack Ryan be able to pull our fat out of the fire?  This is Clear and Present Danger.

Miss my bullwhip.

Ritter: Spoiler! The world is gray, Jack!

Our favorite desk jockey Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford of Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Patriot Games and Cowboys & Aliens) is back with the CIA and his boss Admiral Greer (James Earl Jones of End of the Road, Claudine, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Conan the Barbarian, Patriot Games and Field of Dreams) is giving the reigns of director of the CIA to Jack as he is the only man he has ever trusted.  Not long on his watch, the Coast Guard find a clipper finding the corpses of an American banker and his family murdered in their beds with several Columbians armed with AKs surrendering immediately.  Must be the 50 caliber that will skuttle the ship they are worried about.

Hey, Jimmy Johns. We need 4 club sandwiches, chips and cokes please.

President Bennett (Donald Moffat of The Thing, One Life to Live and the Unbearable Lightness of Being) finds it was a close personal friend that was skimming close to $650 million in cash from a Columbian drug cartel. National Security Advisor James Cutter (Harris Yulin of Scarface, Another Woman, Narrow Margin and Cutthroat Island) confabs with the President who tells him these cartels represent a danger to the U.S. and must be dealt with immediately; giving an unofficial nod of approval bring the hammer down on the men responsible for his friend and family’s death. 

As Jack takes over for Greer he is asked to go before Congress and plead for $70 Million in the on-going operations in Columbia.  Congress and Jack are blissfully unaware that the funding with be for a black-ops mission.

Jack out of the loop for his Boy Scout ways starts to hear chatter about explosions and crops being destroyed in Columbia but no direct case workload coming through his office.  Old instincts kick in as the Deputy Director of Operations Ritter is not communicating with him Jack starts digging around.  Ritter links up with an older agent, John Clark (William Dafoe of Platoon, The English Patient, The Boondock Saints and Spider-Man) to run point with a special forces team. 

Sir, can we break for lunch? I'm thinkin' Arby's

 

With Columbian cartels losing patience with these attacks on their people and crops, the head of the cartel turns to his intelligence officer, former Colonel Cortez (Joaquim de Almeida of Desperado, Behind Enemy Lines,The Lovebirds and Three 60) of Cuban Intelligence is digging into his own investigation into the possibility of US soldiers in Columbia.  Can Jack save the soldiers, terminate this operation and bring the wrong doers before justice? 

Well go look up the movie.  It is a pretty decent thriller after all.