Dec 11, 2009

Clear and Present Danger | Characters

Some of the characters are familiar from earlier Clancy novels: Judge Moore, director of the CIA; Bob Ritter, director of field operations; Admiral Greer, director of intelligence analysis; Jack Ryan, who succeeds Greer; and Clark, the mysterious field agent. Both Moore and Ritter find themselves in a moral no-man's-land. Their jobs require them to be faithful to the president, but they think that what they have been ordered to do is wrong. They find themselves keeping secrets from their own subordinates and following the orders of Vice Admiral Cutter, whom they know to be a fool. When...