Patriot Games
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Patriot Games (1987) is a book by Tom Clancy. It is chronologically the second book (after Without Remorse) featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan, the main person in almost all of Clancy's novels.
Plot
Ryan saves the Prince of Wales from a breakaway Irish terrorist group, the Ulster Liberation Army, who go after Ryan and his family, partially as an act of revenge, but partially because they seek to undermine public (and specifically American) support for the IRA. The ULA tries to kill his wife, and daughter, while they are driving home. His wife is okay, but his daughter is in the emergency room for a very long time. Then, the ULA tries to assassinate Ryan again, this time while the Prince and Princesses of Wales are visiting. Nobody is hurt, but they are all shaken up. Then, at the end, Jack's wife gives birth. The book's title is a reference to The Patriot Game, an anti-British Irish Nationalist song, popular among the IRA.
The novel was adapted as a feature film in 1992. See Patriot Games.
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