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Summary Of Without Remorse By Tom Clancy

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Without Remorse is the fourth book written in Tom Clancy’s best selling Jack Ryan series that have sold millions of copies around the world. The plot starts off with John Kelly. He is demolishing an oil rig damaged in Hurricane Camille with an Under Water Demolition Team. In the process of driving to pick him up, his pregnant wife Patricia is hit and killed by an eighteen wheeler. At the same time, Air Force Colonel Robin Zacharias is shot down in his F-105 in North Vietnam during a Wild Weasel strike. Robin is captured and reported Killed In Action. He is transported to a secret POW camp run by the Northern Vietnamese. Every one of the high ranked prisoners has top secret technological information and has thought to have been killed, …show more content…

Kelly takes Doris to the Rosen’s head nurse Sandy O’Toole house to put her into rehab. Sandy and Kelly fall into an interesting love affair. After awhile of rehab, Doris Brown is given to her family with the information to tell no one what happened. Putting Billy into a long and horrendous torture with a homemade pressure chamber to make a realistic example of extremely deep water circumstances. Under the pain he gives up the data Kelly wants to eliminate the remaining gang members. Kelly leaves him to die of serious decompression sickness. Before Kelly can do anything with this new information, he must leave for his mission in …show more content…

Admiral Greer and CIA officer Robert Ritter try to recruit Kelly to join the brach of intelligence. However, at this time the police are getting a lead on him. Ritter obliges to help Kelly get rid of his crimes in exchange for an illegal part time op of Ritter’s. The spy has been mis-identified as a secretary to the National Security Advisor. As a member of the wealthy upper class, he is labeled politically untouchable and so he for that reason cannot be charged with treason. Under the new alias of John Clark, Kelly kills the supposed spy, at the same time leaving the real spy in place. The spy happens to be a Senate aide and anti-war activist. To identify the spy, Ritter had leaked 3 different false stories to those he thinks leaked the

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