Written by Tom Clancy - Audio book performed by John Rubinstein - Abridged Fiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 6 hours

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (1999)

The end of history. The new world order. Fine phrases, but as Jack Ryan is about to discover, history isn't dead yet --- and only the nature of the threat is new.

On the Pacific Island of Saipan, a wealthy Japanese businessman regards his newly-bought land with satisfaction. In the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka, a foreign navy begins a series of highly unusual exercises. At the headquarters of America's major stock clearing corporation, an engineer brings a customized computer program on-line for the first time, and smiles at his own private joke. Three seemingly unrelated incidents---but all just the first links in a chain of events that will stun the world.