Debt of Honor - Tom Clancy [473]
"But I am sure of this: America is much harder to destroy than people are. My dad was a cop, as you heard. He and my mom were killed in a plane crash, but there are still cops. A lot of fine people were killed only a few minutes ago, but America is still here. We've fought another war and won it. We've survived an attack on our economy and we'll survive this too. "I'm afraid I'm too new at this to say it properly, but what I learned in school is that America is a dream, it's—it's the ideas we all share, it's the things we all believe in, most of all it's things we all do, and how we do them. You can't destroy things like that. Nobody can, no matter how hard they might try, because we are who and what we choose to be. We invented that idea here, and nobody can destroy that either.
"I'm not really sure what I'm going to do right now, except to make sure my wife and children are really safe first, but now I have this job. and I just promised GOD I that I'd do it the best way I can. For now, I ask you all for your prayers and your help. I'll talk to you again when I know a little more. You can turn the camera off now," he concluded. When the light went off, he turned to Special Agent Price.
"Let's get to work".
[01 feb 2002—scanned by anonymous]
[01 dec 2002—proofed for #bookz]
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1—Alumni
2—Fraternity
3—Collegium
4—Activity
5—Complexity Theory
6—Looking In, Looking Out
7—Catalyst
8—Fast-Forwarding
9—Power Plays
10—Seduction
11—Sea Change
12—Formalities
13—Winds and Tides
14—Reflections
15—A Damned, Foolish Thing
16—Payloads
17—Strike One
18—Easter Egg
19—Strike Two
20—Strike Three
21—Navy Blue
22—The Global Dimension
23—Catching Up
24—Running in Place
25—All the King's Horses
26—Catch-up
27—Piling On
28—Transmissions
29—Written Records
30—Why Not?
31—The How and the What
32—Special Report
33—Reversal Points
34—All Aboard
35—Consequences
36—Consideration
37—Going Deep
38—The River Rubicon
39—Eyes First
40—Foxes and Hounds
41—CTF-77
42—Lightning Strikes
43—Dancing to the Tune
44—…from one who knows the score…
45—Line of Battle
46—Detachment
47—Brooms