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We would like to thank Jeff Rovin for his creative ideas and his
invaluable contributions to the preparation of the manuscript.
We would also like to acknowledge the assistance of Martin H.
Greenberg, Larry Segriff, Robert Youdelman, Esq., Tom Mal on,
Esq., and the wonderful people at The Putnam Berkley Group,
including Phyl is Grann, David Shanks, and Elizabeth Beier. As
always, we would like to thank Robert Gottlieb of The Wil iam
Morris Agency, our agent and friend, without whom this book
would never have been conceived. But most important, it is for
you, our readers, to determine how successful our col ective
-Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik
CHAPTER ONE Thursday, 9:47 A.M., Garbsen, Germany
Until a few days ago, twenty-one-year-old Jody Thompson didn’t
Back in 1991, the young girl had been too preoccupied with
boys, phones, and acne to pay much attention to the Persian
Gulf War. Al she remembered were TV images of white flashes
tearing through the green night sky, and hearing about Scud
missiles being fired at Israel and Saudi Arabia. She wasn’t
proud of how, little she recal ed, but fourteen-year-old girls have
fourteen-year-old priorities.
Vietnam belonged to her parents, and al she knew about
Korea was that during her junior year of col ege, the veterans
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