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The Sum of All Fears

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The Sum of All Fears	comment	The Sum of All Fears is the fifth Ryanverse book written by Tom Clancy. It was published in 1991, just days before the Moscow uprising, and takes place at roughly the same time, being the seventh book chronologically. Russian politics in the aftermath of the destruction of the Berlin Wall is a main element of the book.The title is based on an anecdote recounted in the foreword: when you get a group of already hostile people together, their fears are amplified, to the point where the slightest misstep can set them on a course for war.The story actually begins in 1973, during the Yom Kippur War. Israel, in its darkest hour, contemplates releasing its nuclear weapons against the Egyptian and Syrian armies, but rescinds the order once things turn for the better. However, in the chaos of battle, one of the fighters carries a nuclear bomb into battle and gets shot down, losing its warhead in the countryside where it disappears.Three years after the drug interdiction fiasco in Columbia, Jack Ryan is now the Deputy Director of the CIA, but is essentially the de-facto Director of Central Intelligence. He constantly bickers with the administration, especially the National Security Advisor Elizabeth Elliot. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is falling apart, which no one is entirely happy about, and a new crisis erupts in Israel.The book follows several factions, from Ryan and the CIA, to Andrey Narmonov, now the President of the Soviet Union, to Ismael Qati, a terrorist leader who discovers the missing nuclear bomb from the Yom Kippur War and is determined to use it to achieve his means.It was the fourth book of the series to be turned into a film.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_112d3380	comment	Retired Bad Ass: Though not technically retired: due to the downsizing of the CIA under Fowler, Ryan had to pull some strings to have Clark and Chavez transferred to the Domestic Protection Service as his bodyguards. They both excel in the role, but all three recognize that it's a holding pattern until they're able to get back into the Operations Directorate, possibly under a new President. They do get into actual spy operations at the end of the novel, which helps them get into place to capture the terrorists when they try to escape.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_121865ac	type	Noble Savage
The Sum of All Fears / int_121865ac	comment	Noble Savage: Subverted. Marvin Russell believes wholeheartedly that his ancestors were a tribe of proud, noble warriors who lived an idyllic existence in harmony with nature. And he disregards any history book that claims otherwise as nothing more than lies made up by the white man.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Sum of All Fears / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Andrey Illych Narmonov continues his role as the Jack Ryan series' stand-in for Mikhail Gorbachev. Also Mahmoud Haji Daryaei for Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran. Also possibly averted with Muammar Qaddafi, Libya's then-dictator, who's referred to obliquely as "our friend the Colonel." Likewise the Prince of Wales, who's never referred to by anything but his title. In the DVD commentary for the film adaptation, Tom Clancy mentions that President Robert Fowler was based on 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Sum of All Fears / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Ryan experiences a drawn-out, stress-induced breakdown - one of the few times in the series that he has not been up to the task at hand. This is due to finding himself working for a hostile administration without much in the way of support. At the very end of the novel, after stopping Fowler from launching a nuclear strike on Iran, Ryan decides to leave government service basically immediately. It isn't until Debt of Honor, years later, that he recovers. Despair Event Horizon: Fowler, after discovering that he had very nearly ordered a nuclear strike on an innocent city, realizes that he has lost the moral right to govern the United States, and resigns in disgrace, leaving Roger Durling to succeed him as President.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Sum of All Fears / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Continuing from the the previous book, we see the Fowler administration come to fruition, and it shows. The book also features a variety of deconstructions for the series itself, including Jack Ryan crumbling under stress as the DDCI. It's also the first time in the series that the United States get attacked on a large scale, too.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Sum of All Fears / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Oleg Kadishev, the leader of the main legislative opposition to the Soviet administration, is secretly a CIA asset. Sensing weakness in President Narmonov, he feeds false information to the CIA implying that there may be a coup against him in the works by the hard-line leadership of the Red Army and KGB, hoping that this will lead the West to encourage his own rise as an alternative. When a nuclear bomb goes off in Denver, President Fowler and Elizabeth Elliott both conclude that the coup must have taken place, and that the Denver attack was planned by the new Soviet regime. It's impossible for Narmonov to calm down the situation, because Fowler refuses to believe that the man on the other end of the red line even is Narmonov. A minor example: soon after the Jerusalem Treaty, Ryan hears the news that an Arab youth was arrested for the attempted mugging of a Jewish citizen in the city. Under the new laws governing the Jerusalem microstate, he's given the choice of a trial under Israeli or traditional Islamic law, and chooses the latter, since he wants to be tried by his own people. Unfortunately, the Koran takes a very dim view of both robbery and assault, and he's executed in very short order.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Sum of All Fears / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Many of the problems surrounding the response to the nuclear attack on Denver are a result of this. The entire plot of the book is made possible by the Israeli Defense Force having lost a nuclear weapon over the Negev desert in the chaos of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, which they never bothered to report even to their closest allies. That an Israeli nuclear weapon was lost in the first place also falls under this trope. Only those air and ground crewmen directly involved in the planned nuclear strike were aware of their mission. Consequently, when all of said personnel were killed or wounded shortly after being ordered to stand down, one nuclear bomb was inadvertently left aboard an aircraft in the confusion. When other crewmen - unaware of their colleagues' orders - came to rearm the planes for conventional missions, they mistook the bomb for a drop tank and left it in place. Information from ground zero which proves that the yield was far below what NORAD estimated, and thereby couldn't have been Russian, almost doesn't reach those in the need to know because President Fowler ordered Denver to undergo a communications blackout to prevent a national panic. Ryan's inability to keep his cool results in Fowler cutting the CIA out of the loop. Shortly thereafter Ryan gets information that proves the Russians weren't involved in the attack but now the U.S. President will no longer listen to him. On an unrelated note, Ryan's support of the family of the man who died on an ill-fated classified mission to Colombia looks from the outside like a sugar daddy relationship with a mistress, and nearly helps destroy his marriage. The poor communication comes from Ryan going through his family's lawyer and accountant to set up a behind-the-curtain corporation to let the man's widow and children own and get income from a convenience store they run without involving Cathy in the process. He and the widow are friends and she assigns him no blame for her husband's death, and she and her kids know that he's the one behind helping them out, so there really is no reason why Ryan had to keep it a secret from his wife. A somewhat long-term one, setting up the plot in Executive Orders. Daryaei, the leader of Iran, meets Jack Ryan at the end of the book, and we're later told that he came away with the impression that the man was a nonentity, "an assistant, nothing more" and a weak man for refusing to drop a nuke on Iran. Daryaei's eventual plan to release a biological weapon in the United States and use the ensuing chaos to conquer its allies in the Persian Gulf is based largely on this misreading, as he doesn't expect Ryan (now President of the United States) to have the strength to react decisively. He is, of course, very badly mistaken.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: John Clark interrogates a pair of Arab terrorists and breaks their fingers to get information to help track down those responsible for their attack. The terrorists promptly finger a non-guilty party.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Prince Ali Bin Sheikh of the Saudi royal family. Unofficially referred to as a "Prince-Without-Portfolio,"note "Minister-Without-Portfolio" is a term for a cabinet member who doesn't have an assigned purview, such as Foreign Affairs or Agriculture. It's usually a sinecure, but can also be a position for a politician who shapes policy without any official responsibilities tying him down he's the de facto foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, as well as (probably) the person in charge of their secret service. He's instrumental in getting the Jerusalem Treaty passed.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: It's not made clear in this book under what circumstances President Fowler leaves office, whether he resigns or is forced out by Congress and his Cabinet. Later novels clarify that he voluntarily resigned after realizing how badly he screwed up.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: You didn't think he spent all that time talking about those logs for nothing, did you?
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The Sum of All Fears / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
The Sum of All Fears / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Deconstructed. While Ryan really is struggling to give his superiors the best information they need, several of his less hot-tempered friends point out to him that his willingness to be confrontational in an administration that's already none too fond of him isn't doing himself or his profession any favors. At one point, he publicly disagrees with a policy the President is suggesting during a cabinet meeting, and is shot down immediately. Scott Adler later tells him that one of the cabinet members (who unlike Ryan is actually supposed to comment on policy, and is close enough to the President that his advice might have stuck) was prepared to make the same objection: Ryan confronting the President simply got in the way.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
The Sum of All Fears / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Played almost entirely straight (he just barely manages not to need them) when the explosives specialist in the terror cell realises that the mysterious object found in a farmer's field is not in fact an electronic-jamming pod as he'd first thought, having established that it's not a conventional bomb, but is actually a nuclear warhead (that he had just spent the last few hours hammering). Understandably, this is not in any way Played for Laughs.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
The Sum of All Fears / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: A stressed-out Jack withdraws from Cathy, leading her to believe that he's having an affair. Add to that a mishap with a perfume bottle, and a news leak by vindictive bitch Elizabeth Elliot about "a senior intelligence official"...
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The Sum of All Fears / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Sum of All Fears / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: In a somewhat dark example, President Fowler muses early in the book that he doesn't have it in him to give the order to use nuclear weapons and is glad he lives in a world where this kind of action is no longer necessary. After the Denver attack and he learns the "truth" that Iran was behind it, his knee-jerk reaction is to order a nuclear strike on the city where the Ayatollah lives.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: The terrorists' plan in the event of their capture is to implicate another country for the Denver bombing, to cause the expected revenge bombing by the US to cause a massive uprising by the Arab world. On top of that, their original plan was to convince the US that the Soviet Union nuked Denver in hopes of causing a war that would destroy both countries.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_2f69c343	type	Resigned in Disgrace
The Sum of All Fears / int_2f69c343	comment	Resigned in Disgrace: The end of the novel implies that President Fowler resigns from office after realizing he almost helped start World War III and then compounded that mistake by almost nuking an innocent city for revenge. Later books confirm this. Charles Alden is forced out after it's revealed he had an improper affair with a student while he was a professor. He dies of a stress-induced aneurysm before the resignation takes effect, however.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Sum of All Fears / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Marvin Russell is under the impression that he, Qati, and Ghosn are planting a very large conventional bomb at the Super Bowl rather than a nuclear warhead. When the idea of nukes comes up, Marvin mentions that he's glad they're not using one because that would cause too much destruction for his tastes. This is a big part of why Qati and Ghosn murder him after they've planted the bomb.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_31e92640	type	Japan Takes Over the World
The Sum of All Fears / int_31e92640	comment	Japan Takes Over the World: A minor background element for most of the book is that the U.S. government is increasingly unhappy with Japan's cutthroat trade policies and looking to push back against them, which among other things leads to CIA surveillance on its Prime Minister. This leads to them discovering an extreme case of political corruption, in which the Japanese are planning to bribe the President of Mexico to break his trade treaty agreements with the United States in favor of newer ones more favorable to Japan. At the end of the book, this gives Washington the political leverage to force the Mexican government to play along with an urgent CIA operation, which leads to the capture of the terrorists responsible for the Denver nuclear attack.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_3618ebb9	comment	Elizabeth Elliot, however, plays this trope entirely straight. A relic of the New Left movement from The '60s, she's a fountain of a Straw Feminist, judging potential hires on their race and gender despite qualifications. This political correctness is largely hypocritical and performative, given her dismissiveness towards Clark and (Mexican-American) Chavez (treating Ryan's friendship with them as "like being friends with the furniture.") She holds military personnel in extreme contempt, considering them Dumb Muscle at best, and isn't shy about saying so. She's at least a bit of a Conspiracy Theorist, noted to a have written a book about the CIA's pervasiveness that Ryan considers delusionally paranoid. She's dismissive of the national security aspects of her job, declining to sit in on war games and simulations. Naturally, she's also wrong in all of her predictions, and completely useless when a real crisis rolls around. It borders on Artistic License â€“ Politics, as while people with her anti-military, anti-CIA politics certainly exist in Washington, it would be highly unusual for them to rise to the position of National Security Adviser, in either party.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_38ac6c7d	type	Former Regime Personnel
The Sum of All Fears / int_38ac6c7d	comment	Former Regime Personnel: The False Flag Operation that was part of the terrorists' plans to get the US and the Soviet Union fighting one another was assisted by several former agents of the East German Stasi, who also arranged for the technical expert to work on the nuclear bomb they had acquired.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Sum of All Fears / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Capt. Harry Ricks is a Bad Boss whose insistence that his crew follow his directions to the letter ends up destroying his boat.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
The Sum of All Fears / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Liz Elliot holds a personal grudge against Ryan from their first meeting in Clear and Present Danger, abusing her powers to get back at him and try to destroy his marriage. This gets extended later to Cathy Ryan, who, after discovering that the circumstantial evidence of her cheating husband was actually him keeping his promise to take care of Buck Zimmer's family, turns around to publicly humiliate Elliot at a party.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
The Sum of All Fears / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Dr. Ben Goodley, the new hire foisted on the CIA by Elizabeth Elliott. She's effectively planning to use him as her mole in the agency, especially when it comes to digging up dirt on Ryan. After a few months in place developing an appreciation for the CIA and Ryan, Goodley decides he's not interested in this role, and admits everything to Ryan. Who, nevertheless, maintains his invitation to the man to join the CIA on a full-time basis.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: President Fowler. He's a jerk towards Ryan from the get-go, but he's also an honest politician who despises corruption, hates child exploitation, and values his underlings. Even when he's putting Ryan out to pasture, Fowler is willing to give him a glowing send off out of respect for his meritorious service.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_4efe80e1	type	Lazy Bum
The Sum of All Fears / int_4efe80e1	comment	Lazy Bum: Marcus Cabot likes his position as head of the CIA better than actually doing the work, and delegates all the work to Ryan while he relaxes, on the occasions when he doesnâ€™t call in sick.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: A sizable portion of the novel consists of Elliot trying to ruin Ryan's career and marriage because he objected to her bad manners in Clear and Present Danger. It makes more sense when you figure out that she's a petty, vindictive bitch. Qati's motivation for trying to spark a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia is that he's angry the U.S. helped end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_5230d420	comment	Cosmopolitan Council: The government of Jerusalem after the treaty, a troika made up of one Christian, one Jewish, and one Muslim religious leader, to represent each of the three religions to whom the city is historically significant.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Marvin Russell. He's a terrorist, but also a sincerely friendly and witty man.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_53f8ebb4	comment	The Driver: John Clark is Jack Ryan's and, noticing his charge's deteriorating condition, tells Cathy the truth.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_58d31a8b	comment	Body Motifs: A rather odd one, given the book's subject. If a female character pops up at any point, her naked breasts will be described or referenced.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_608b84cc	comment	25th Amendment: Roger Durling's final scene is him getting comfortable in the Oval Office with Arnie Van Damm addressing him as "Mr. President". It's heavily implied, and later confirmed in subsequent novels, that Fowler resigned from the presidency after having a mental breakdown.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: The terrorists impersonate TV network service personnel to get their bomb (disguised as a commercial VCR) into the Denver Skydome. Later, their German terrorist accomplices get onto a Soviet army base in East Germany by donning Soviet officer uniforms, and pretending to be there for a surprise inspection.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_63b12059	comment	Villainous Friendship: Gunther Bock, German Marxist, is friends with Ismael Qati, Palestinian terrorist leader. Qati even slept with Bock's wife without Gunther minding. Also Ghosn forms a friendship with Marvin Russell and regrets having to kill him to cover their tracks. Qati, on the other hand, doesn't care as Marvin was a "heathen".
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The Sum of All Fears / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Petra and Gunther Bock are unrepentant Western Terrorists, but they genuinely loved each other and their two daughters.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
The Sum of All Fears / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Elizabeth Elliot, made worse because of her relationship with President Fowler. She becomes his most trusted advisor but her paranoid insecurity causes her to lead him to the brink of nuclear war. She has a full on breakdown afterwards.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
The Sum of All Fears / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: When Captain Rosselli relinquishes command of USS Maine, his final act is to tour the ship and say good-bye to his men. By the end, he's openly crying. Admiral Mancuso is understanding, while Captain Ricks is disdainful and only cares about the condition of the sub's equipment.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_67b24bc8	type	Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell
The Sum of All Fears / int_67b24bc8	comment	Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell: The motivation for the villains. With Eastern Europe liberated and the Cold War essentially over, extreme-left Western Terrorists like the Bocks who used to rely on the USSR for support are left high and dry. Their Arab Nationalist allies in the Middle East, like Qati and Ghosn, are facing a similar problem: not only have they lost Soviet patronage, but the Jerusalem Treaty championed in the book by the Fowler administration risks ending the Arabâ€“Israeli Conflict that they've been fighting their whole lives. With both groups left without a patron and without a cause, they resolve to stage a False Flag Operation to destroy the peace between America and Russia and, hopefully, in the Middle East as well.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_67e9df66	type	Empty Quiver
The Sum of All Fears / int_67e9df66	comment	Empty Quiver: Forms the basis of the plot, with a nuclear weapon lost during the 1973 Arabâ€“Israeli War.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_68a91d1c	type	Honest Advisor
The Sum of All Fears / int_68a91d1c	comment	Honest Advisor: discussed at length. Jack Ryan's relationship with Ben Goodley, the Washington Fellow (a very high-end version of an intern) assigned to CIA, is built on this. The man is already a rising star in International Relations academia, one whose conclusions Ryan often disagrees with. However, his analytical skills are first-rate, so Ryan welcomes him abroad, shows him the ropes of the job, and often uses him as a sounding board to push back against his own assumptions and beliefs. He also tries to instill this ethos in Goodley, explaining that it's critical in the intelligence work to seek out opposing viewpoints and avoid becoming a prisoner of your own beliefs. Ryan himself tries to perform this role in the Fowler administration. This is very much against their wishes, as Fowler dislikes Ryan and doesn't care for his advice, but he's too popular both on Capitol Hill and with the CIA rank-and-file to be easily gotten rid of. Ryan notes that this unwillingness to seek out and hear opposing viewpoints is easily Fowler's biggest flaw, far more than any actual policy disagreements he has with the man.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_69d46274	type	Justice by Other Legal Means
The Sum of All Fears / int_69d46274	comment	Justice by Other Legal Means: The German police detective handling Petra Bock's case deliberately drives her to suicide.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_6aa5bcb8	type	Vice President Who?
The Sum of All Fears / int_6aa5bcb8	comment	Vice President Who?: Discussed. Roger Durling, after delivering the state of California during the election, is relegated to backwater assignments away from the limelight. The sad part is Durling is a much nicer and more reasonable man than President Bob Fowler. It's what makes him a pretty good successor when Fowler resigns.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_6c75e0e4	type	Beware the Silly Ones
The Sum of All Fears / int_6c75e0e4	comment	Beware the Silly Ones: Under the peace treaty, Jerusalem is converted into an independent polity similar to the Vatican, complete with its own police force of Swiss Guards, wearing the same Renaissance-era costumes that make their Roman counterparts the butt of so many jokes. Few such jokes are heard in Jerusalem, however, after one of the Guards chases down a purse snatcher and subdues him with a single judo chop.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Sum of All Fears / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: A German detective intentionally goads Petra Bock into committing suicide by reminding her that she will never see her two daughters again and she will die inside prison. Later he watches her hang herself through a hidden camera in her cell. He does this because of a case he investigated where Petra slowly tortured a man to death over several days.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_6d6af605	type	Take Me Out at the Ball Game
The Sum of All Fears / int_6d6af605	comment	Take Me Out at the Ball Game: The nuke is detonated at the Super Bowl, killing thousands and sparking fear in President Fowler* and Liz Elliot that the bomb may have been targeted at him specifically.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
The Sum of All Fears / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: Deconstructed, see Hyper-Competent Sidekick below. While Ryan makes a valiant effort at running the CIA when the actual director is too lazy to do so, it's simply too much stress for one person to handle, especially when they haven't got the credibility that comes from rank to help them do it. In a moment of Brutal Honesty, Clark points out that Ryan might be very valuable when he's at his best, but at his present levels of stress and exhaustion, his intern could take over most of his duties without a noticeable drop in quality.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Sum of All Fears / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: The possibility of the Denver nuclear explosion being a terrorist attack is kept open throughout the crisis, at least by CIA, because the explosion was smaller and cruder than what you'd expect from a first-tier nuclear power like (the main suspect) the Soviet Union. Turns out, the nuke was Israeli-made, and if it had gone off properly would have looked exactly as destructive and sophisticated as a Soviet nuke: Jack Ryan himself admits that he wouldn't have bothered looking for other suspects. Thankfully, its activation by the terrorists was just shoddy enough to lead to a "fizzle" detonation, thus averting World War III.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Sum of All Fears / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Qati's insistence on killing his collaborators who have outlived their usefulness directly screws him and his organization in two ways. Killing the engineer results in the fusion stage of the bomb fizzling which lets the US identify the source of the plutonium, and killing Russell results in his body being discovered and the terrorists tracked.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_7cfeef98	type	Narrative Filigree
The Sum of All Fears / int_7cfeef98	comment	Narrative Filigree: Chapter 35, 'Three Shakes', consists of several pages covering microseconds, describing the nuclear weapon's detonation step-by-step.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_8077793f	type	Open Secret
The Sum of All Fears / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: The White House staff and press are easily able to tell that President Fowler and Liz Elliot are sleeping together. The press reasons that so long as the personal relationship doesn't harm the professional one, they'll keep it to themselves. It comes back to bite the entire world in the ass when it does become a problem at the worst possible time.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Sum of All Fears / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: A contributing factor to the Denver crisis. Soon after the nuclear explosion in Denver places the entire military on high alert, a U.S. Navy carrier in the Mediterranean shoots down a flight of MiGs in their general vicinity which they assume are Soviet planes coming to attack them. The possibility that they came from nearby Libya is dismissed because the Libyan air force has neither the training nor the equipment for long-range nighttime operations over the water. Turns out, they were Libyan MiGs: the flight was part of a training operation meant to remedy precisely these shortcomings.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Sum of All Fears / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Marvin Russell gets murdered by Qati and Ghosn once they finish planting the bomb.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_90d60f4a	type	And Some Other Stuff
The Sum of All Fears / int_90d60f4a	comment	And Some Other Stuff: In the afterword, Clancy admits to fudging "some" details of the workings and construction of nuclear weapons, in an effort to not help anyone with unkind intentions involving nukes (though he also acknowledges, if somewhat cynically, it probably won't actually stop anything).
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The Sum of All Fears / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
The Sum of All Fears / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: The US and USSR come within seconds of all-out nuclear war.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Sum of All Fears / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Mostly averted. The Christian, Jewish, and Muslim clerics presented in the book are mostly treated as honest and honorable people (indeed, they have to be for the Jerusalem Treaty to work). Mahmoud Haji Daryaei, however, the religious leader of Iran, plays this trope fairly straight. The book also alludes to some Jewish radical leaders and American televangelists who are less than pleased at the agreement with what they view as "infidels." (The fact that most of the Christians involved are either Catholic or Eastern Orthodox rather than American-style evangelicals doesn't help their case, as far as the televangelists are concerned).
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The Sum of All Fears / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Sum of All Fears / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Subverted. The nuclear scientist hadn't actually finished his work on the bomb yet. Because of that, its effect is significantly lessened, and provides the vital clue that keeps the US from launching its arsenal at Russia. Played straight with the terrorists' U.S. accomplice, whom they murder once their device is planted.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_92e0fc5c	type	Hotline
The Sum of All Fears / int_92e0fc5c	comment	Hotline: Played realistically in that instead of the stereotypical "red phone" with national leaders directly conversing, it's a teletype connection with translators on both ends. Using this form of communication causes the U.S. and the Soviet Union to edge closer to nuclear war because the U.S. President, after hearing reports of a possible coup d'Ã©tat in the Soviet Union, believes he's talking to someone other than the Soviet Premier.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_95b7e807	type	Middle Eastern Terrorists
The Sum of All Fears / int_95b7e807	comment	Middle Eastern Terrorists: Qati and Ghosn, Palestinian nationalists affiliated with the real-life PFLP. Though also assisted by a couple of Western Terrorists (see below).
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The Sum of All Fears / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Sum of All Fears / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: It's pointed out a few times that Fowler and Ryan share many characteristics and traits, notably their honesty and integrity. However, because Fowler's main focus was on domestic issues (as opposed to Ryan being a foreign specialist), and due to him getting off on the wrong foot with both Fowler and Elliot, they end up personally butting heads throughout the whole novel.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_9970d26b	type	Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality
The Sum of All Fears / int_9970d26b	comment	Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: Elliott is upset when an influential Jewish rabbi boycotts the peace process and gathers some loud public support. She suggests to Ryan that the CIA "do something about him..." Ryan laughs and tells her she sounds like something from a bad movie, and if she knew anything about how the CIA actually operates, she'd know that it doesn't just reach out and kill inconvenient people like The Mafia - and even if it did, the procedure is a little bit more formal than an administration official whispering behind her hand.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Sum of All Fears / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: A small one to Patriot Games. It's noted that the villains of that book, last seen being taken into custody by the police, were finally executed by the State of Maryland not long before the events of this book. The Prince of Wales and MI6 director Sir Basil Charleston are also seen again for the first time. The defection of Chairman Gerasimov at the end of The Cardinal of the Kremlin and the resulting turmoil in the KGB has created some openings, which have allowed Sergey Golovko, the KGB officer and Friendly Enemy Jack Ryan made during that book, to move into a senior management position in the organization. In addition, when setting up a quid pro quo with a Washington Post reporter to find out who's been leaking slanderous information to the media about the CIA, Clark has to promise him an exclusive with the details of the Gerasimov defection. Several to Clear and Present Danger. For one thing, Ryan's promise to take care of the family of the pilot who died in Colombia nearly destroys his marriage, as his wife finds out about this family and first assumes he's having an affair. For another, Ryan's friendship with Clark and Chavez has led him to move heaven and earth to keep them in CIA service despite the reductions-in-force at the end of the Cold War. Finally, the Fowler administration only took power thanks to a deal made behind closed doors between his predecessor and congressional leaders to avoid a political scandal. Given that Fowler's disastrous management of the Denver crisis nearly leads to World War III (twice), Ryan has ample reason to regret having gone along with that.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
The Sum of All Fears / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Three examples. National Security Advisor Elizabeth Elliot attempts to ruin Ryan's career in order to make the CIA her puppet. Capt. Harry Ricks is a Bad Boss whose insistence that his crew follow his directions to the letter ends up destroying his boat. Arguably the worst, however, is Oleg Kirilovich Kadishev, the leader of the main opposition party in the democratizing Soviet Union, who's also a CIA asset. He uses his connections in both governments to help his own rise to power by passing along false information. This leads to a massive misreading of the Soviet political situation by the U.S. government, which ultimately nearly culminates in nuclear war. (See Gone Horribly Right below for more details).
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The Sum of All Fears / int_a0390164	type	It's for a Book
The Sum of All Fears / int_a0390164	comment	It's for a Book: While doing the research for the novel, Clancy was able to get the specifications for all the machinery needed to build a nuclear bomb delivered to his doorstep. He then pointed out in his author's notes that it's all commercially available within the U.S.* The process for making a nuclear weapon has been public for decades. The limiting factor is the nuclear material: uranium and plutonium. This is not a failing of national security, however, but rather due to the nature of scientific discovery, which is lampshaded in the novel several times: what takes the work of the most brilliant minds of a generation is the work of a technician once the process is perfected.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Sum of All Fears / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Both Fowler and Elliot go into full BSOD mode when they realize how close they came to starting World War III. Fowler resigns his presidency immediately afterwards. Elliot, on the other hand, collapses into paranoic rambling and suffers a mental break, ultimately requiring hospitalization, and later books make it clear she never fully recovers.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
The Sum of All Fears / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: While Elliot is digging for dirt on Ryan, her investigator mentions that, on top of everything else, he seems to have a genuinely friendly relationship with Clark and Chavez, his protection detail. Elliott is at a loss to understand this, comparing it to "being nice to the furniture"; in the first place, she knows nothing about the covert mission in Columbia that bonded the three men together, and in the second, it's beyond her ken that Ryan honestly doesn't see Clark or Chavez (or anyone else, for that matter) as social inferiors.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
The Sum of All Fears / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: Deconstructed with acting chief of NORAD and the CINC-SAC. They both get really into countering the perceived Soviet aggression after the Denver attack, but they also come to realize just how bad things have gotten and try to calm down President Fowler. It doesn't work.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Sum of All Fears / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Just about everyone has this reaction when they're informed that there's been a nuclear explosion in Denver.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Sum of All Fears / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: It's revealed in The Teeth of the Tiger that all the effort to end the Israeli-Arab conflict will, once again, be for nothing as the Jerusalem Treaty later falls apart.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Sum of All Fears / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: A purse snatcher is caught in Jerusalem by one of the Swiss Guards after accosting an elderly widow. Under the new laws in effect under the treaty, he has the option of being tried by Jewish or Arab law. Since he is an Arab, he elects the latter, expecting a more sympathetic court - which, since his victim died of her injuries, subjects him to execution by decapitation. note Excluding the "extra-legal" methods used against terrorists, Israel has abolished capital punishment for "ordinary" crimes, including homicide; the only official capital crimes in Israel are treason, genocide, crimes against humanity and crimes against the Jewish people; the last capital sentence was issued in 1988 to former concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk, and Israeli prosecutors have not requested the death penalty since the 1990s.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
The Sum of All Fears / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: Qati, the leader of the terrorist group, is dying of cancer. He views their plot as his last chance to strike a devastating blow against America. His cancer meds are a Chekhov's Gun that clue Clark into seeing through the False Flag Operation.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_b7413fda	comment	Did the Earth Move for You, Too?: A throwaway joke made when the terrorists are digging up an unexploded nuclear bomb.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: A minor case when when discussing changing Soviet politics. The Western based media is used to using the phrases "left" and "right" to refer to reformers and conservatives respectively, and now applies these terms to the politics of the Soviet Union. The confusion comes in because in the Soviet context, the "left" wing is the one of the communist hard-liners, while the people arguing for liberalization have always been denounced as "right"-deviationists from Party orthodoxy.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: The novel was written prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, but set chronologically afterwards. Oops. Though Narmonov is pretty clearly written as a Gorbachev expy. It isn't so much a matter of assuming that the USSR would continue, but not being able to predict exactly how it would fall apart.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Captain Harry Ricks is a combination of this and Drill Sergeant Nasty. An interesting example, he's continually described as the probably the most proficient engineer in the entire Navy, who can design a nuclear reactor and an engine on the back of a napkin. He gets hit with The Peter Principle when he's put into a leadership position when his interpersonal skills are nowhere near as good as his technical onesnote He may even be in a kind of Peter Principle bubble, as while in command of a sub his skills are outpaced to where they should be, his ultimate goal isn't to be in charge of the Navy, but to be the Director of Naval Reactors, the guy in charge of designing and testing nuclear equipment, setting safety standards, and overall being the Navy's top nuclear engineer. It would be a perfect landing spot for him, except for the part where he's in a position to screw things up royally for years in the process of getting there.. He sees his crew as interchangeable parts for his engineering puzzle of the perfect sub and when one of his "pieces" doesn't act the way he thinks it should or has a mind of it's own, he reacts badly. He also starts trying to develop tactics and does reckless stunts on his sub because he thinks his boss, Admiral Mancuso, wants to see energetic go-getters as his captains. He gets in way over his head when his sub hits floating debris while tracking a Russian sub during the story's climax and comes apart at the seams. He dies when the sub is later struck by a torpedo, but manages to get most of the crew off beforehand.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_bf3e372	comment	Torture Is Ineffective: The terrorists who nuked the Super Bowl are captured by Clark and Chavez. Clark uses some Fingore on them to get information on their backer, and after holding out for a while, the terrorists finger the nation of Iran. The catch is that they had planned this as an attempted Xanatos Gambit: if the US does retaliate against Iran, they will have "made an enemy out of all Islam".
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The Sum of All Fears / int_c39a5ef0	comment	Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Lampshaded by various characters, who find it hard to do this over the sweeping political changes that drive the conflicts of the book.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_cafdaf4e	comment	Trust Password: Used in a way, when Ryan gets on the text-based Hotline with the Russian President, Andrey Ilyavich Narmonov. Ryan asks him if he still makes his own fires in the dacha, a Call-Back to their in-person meeting in Russia in The Cardinal of the Kremlin. Narmonov responds by asking him questions about the incident that only Ryan would know.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Deconstructed. Since DCI Cabot is an incompetent, lazy asshole, Ryan has to run the CIA by himself. The stress of having to do so and deal with a hostile presidential administration puts him on a path to a nervous breakdown which is only prevented, accidentally, by President Fowler asking for his resignation. John Clark and Domingo Chavez qualify as well: with the CIA being downsized, Jack has both of them moved to the Diplomatic Protection Service to serve as his personal bodyguards, and to keep them in government service so their obvious skills won't go to waste. Clark takes it upon himself to help Jack stave off a nervous breakdown, and both of them also help save Jack's marriage (without his knowledge) by giving some classified information to Cathy Ryan. In recompense, Jack gets them in on an actual espionage mission (bugging the plane of the President of Japan, on his trip from Mexico to the US), which inadvertently gets them in a prime position to capture Qati.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_d3540d32	comment	Life Imitates Art: It's mentioned that local wags near the Strategic Air Command HQ joked that the relatively new (at the time) Command Center was made so that the actual place matched up with the common Hollywood depictions of the facility, which were better than the original structure. invoked
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The Sum of All Fears / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: Petra and Gunther Bock, Marxist terrorists from West Germany associated with the (real-life) Red Army Faction. Marvin Russel, a Native American terrorist member of the (fictional) Warrior Society.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_d779d7a5	comment	Oh No You Didn't: When Admiral Mancuso is gently and patiently trying to tell Captain Ricks that his micromanaging, authoritarian leadership style is simply not working and is killing morale on his boat, Ricks brusquely throws it back in his face and says his career has been one of continual progression and he's not changingnote Likening the reports of morale issues to an "Alcoholics Anonymous" meeting: he doesn't have a problem because he gets results. If he had a problem, he wouldn't get results, and trying to get him to admit to a problem (alcoholism/morale) when there's just normal operation (drinking/results) is bullshit. Ricks instantly realizes he'd gone too far and tried to soften his comment, but the flash of anger that crossed Mancuso's face let him know it was too late. Mancuso reflected internally that one of his older relatives had been a Mafia Godfather on Sicily during the early part of the 20th century, and that man would have blown a hole in Ricks for being so insolent. Mancuso knew he couldn't do that, but he could make certain Ricks was never promoted again. With how Navy fitness reports and reporting groups work, with a group of a dozen captains and only the top three to possibly be promoted, it would be very easy for Mancuso to slot Ricks in at #4, no matter how good he performs, and still not give him any points on which to argue later on.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_da910c25	comment	Authentication by Newspaper: The wife of one of the engineers working on the bomb is killed, to keep her from telling where her husband is. To prove that she's dead, they make a videotape of the execution, with a news program on the TV in the corner acting as a time stamp.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: Marcus Cabot, Ryan's direct superior, is portrayed as a lazy boss who does nothing noteworthy but to cause trouble for Jack. Due to his general incompetence, Ryan is essentially the one who runs the CIA.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Played straight with President Fowler for most of the novel, but then subverted after the nuclear attack on Denver. A combination of Elliot's paranoia, his drinking, and his mistrust of the CIA in general and Ryan in particular compromises his judgment and hence his responses to the crisis. Vice President Durling plays this straight for the entire novel. Secretary of Defense Dennis Bunker is explicitly identified as one of the most reasonable members of the Fowler administration, respected by both generals and grunts. Likewise Secretary of State Brent Talbot. Pity they both die at the Super Bowl. Charles Alden, Fowler's first National Security Adviser, is one as well, who puts a lot of effort into helping the Vatican Treaty go through. Unfortunately, the press exposure of his affair with one of his former grad students, followed by a stroke, leaves his position open for Elizabeth Elliot, who is very much not this trope.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Fowler, after discovering that he had very nearly ordered a nuclear strike on an innocent city, realizes that he has lost the moral right to govern the United States, and resigns in disgrace, leaving Roger Durling to succeed him as President.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_e0e8cce6	comment	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: It's mentioned that Arnie Van Damm started his career as a left-wing believer, but two decades of working in government cured him of that. Now he equally distrusts ideologues from both ends of the political spectrum.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: John Clark uses this; also a case of Mutilation Interrogation by way of Fingore. It fails in that the badguys were planning all along to lie under interrogation to falsely implicate Iran in their bomb plot.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: Mostly averted. While the author and the main character both lean conservative, the (liberal) President is stressed to be honest, hardworking, intelligent, patriotic, and with an impressive background as a mob prosecutor and Governor of Ohio. His main flaws are his arrogance and his inexperience in foreign policy. His Vice-President has most of the same qualities while lacking the flaws. Most of his cabinet is superbly qualified for their positions. Ryan himself, meanwhile, is noted to have strong relationships with both the Democratic and Republican legislators responsible for the intelligence oversight committees, both of whom are similarly shown in a positive light. Elizabeth Elliot, however, plays this trope entirely straight. A relic of the New Left movement from The '60s, she's a fountain of a Straw Feminist, judging potential hires on their race and gender despite qualifications. This political correctness is largely hypocritical and performative, given her dismissiveness towards Clark and (Mexican-American) Chavez (treating Ryan's friendship with them as "like being friends with the furniture.") She holds military personnel in extreme contempt, considering them Dumb Muscle at best, and isn't shy about saying so. She's at least a bit of a Conspiracy Theorist, noted to a have written a book about the CIA's pervasiveness that Ryan considers delusionally paranoid. She's dismissive of the national security aspects of her job, declining to sit in on war games and simulations. Naturally, she's also wrong in all of her predictions, and completely useless when a real crisis rolls around. It borders on Artistic License â€“ Politics, as while people with her anti-military, anti-CIA politics certainly exist in Washington, it would be highly unusual for them to rise to the position of National Security Adviser, in either party.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Bob Fowler and Elizabeth Elliot make a good Ahab And Jezebel allegory. On his own, when he listens to competent advice and doesn't have a Toxic Friend Influence whispering in his ear, he's still somewhat arrogant and out of his depth, but can be a halfway decent Reasonable Authority Figure. Unfortunately, Elliot does her best to corrupt him into being as venal, paranoid, and selfish as she is, and his nobler qualities greatly suffer as a result.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_e621b159	comment	A-Cup Angst: When Cathy suspects that Jack may be cheating on her, she begins to feel insecure about her physical appearance. While examining herself in the mirror she notes that, while she is slender and pretty, she does have small breasts.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Harry Ricks, newly minted commander of USS Maine, is a hardcase engineer with a bad case of Miles Gloriosus when it comes to actual command. His subordinate tries to rein him in, only to be accused of disloyalty. His superior officer then tries to gently break the news of his poor leadership to him, and instead gets backtalk and disdain. Elizabeth Elliot, Fowler's National Security Adviser, is worse, attempting to ruin Ryan's life on the basis of a petty vendetta and driving Fowler to the brink of nuclear war through sheer paranoia.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: Happens quite a bit as a result of the Denver attack. CINC-NORAD was killed in the attack leaving his two-star subordinate in charge. Ryan, Dan Murray, and Captain Rosselli are the most senior officers present at their respective agencies, leaving them to advise President Fowler. Roger Durling becomes president after Fowler has a mental breakdown and resigns.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Ayatollah Mahmoud Haji Daryaei, the religious dictator of Iran, twice. At the beginning of the book, he's name-dropped in the middle of a paragraph describing the various Jewish, Christian, and Muslim voices opposed to the Vatican Treaty, but with no particular significance. At the end of the book, however, the terrorists reveal him to be the mastermind behind the Denver nuclear attack. (This turns out to be a lie, meant to incite an American nuclear attack on Iran that would destroy the fledgling peace in the region). Daryaei appears in person at the end of the book, having a brief conversation with Jack Ryan regarding his role in stopping the President from nuking Iran. He later goes on to be the main antagonist in Executive Orders.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_f494af54	comment	Defcon 5: Averted. After the nuclear bomb goes off in Denver, President Fowler orders the military to DEFCON 2, and then to DEFCON 1 after the attack on US troops in West Germany.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Gunther Bock genuinely cannot understand why the East Germans overthrew their "perfect socialist state" to reunite with the evil, capitalist West. Ayatollah Daryaei cannot understand why Jack Ryan would have prevented his President from nuking a city in Iran, dismissing the notion that an "unbeliever" could possibly be concerned about the mass civilian deaths that would have resulted from it.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_f9671119	comment	Death Equals Redemption: While not exactly a villain in this case, Harry Ricks apologizes to his XO for the way he commanded USS Maine shortly before they're hit by one of Admiral Lunin's torpedoes. Thankfully, it ends better for most of the rest of the crew.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: The villains of the novel. German Marxist terrorists looking to bring back the Cold War, and Palestinian nationalist terrorists looking to bring back the Arabâ€“Israeli Conflict. Carol Zimmer's family is a nonviolent and much more tragic example. She's the daughter of a Laotian Hmong chieftain, whose entire tribe was wiped out when the North Vietnamese conquered their land. She only survived thanks to the U.S. Army pilot who brought her out and later married her.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: Invoked by Golovko, while the SVR is examining evidence that the East Germans were attempting to start their own atomic bomb project, while "forgetting" to inform their Soviet patrons.
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The Sum of All Fears / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil is Petty: Elizabeth Elliot. She holds a grudge against Jack Ryan over one blunt conversation at a political convention when they met in the previous book, which is reinforced by her disapproval of his politics and his refusal to break or bend the rules for her or the President's convenience. As a result she spends much of the book trying to destroy him, first by using a Washington Fellow as her mole at the CIA to dig up dirt on him, then by trying to disgrace him publicly by leaking information to the press implying that he's having an affair (in the process nearly destroying his marriage).
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The Sum of All Fears / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: President Fowler and Liz Elliot's relationship demonstrates that, while they are assholes to Ryan, very deep down they are good people. Subverted when Elliot makes sure her disgraced predecessor gets his deserved credit for bringing about the Jerusalem Treaty. The only reason she does so is to screw Ryan out of getting any recognition for all the work he did behind the scenes.
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The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	Prevent the War / int_b3e0e2e0
The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	Reading The Enemy's Mail / int_b3e0e2e0
The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	Resigned in Disgrace / int_b3e0e2e0
The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic / int_b3e0e2e0
The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	Sacred Hospitality / int_b3e0e2e0
The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	Shoot the Builder / int_b3e0e2e0
SuperBowl	seeAlso	The Sum of All Fears
The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	Surprise Inspection Ruse / int_b3e0e2e0
The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	The Coup / int_b3e0e2e0
The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	The Great Politics Mess-Up / int_b3e0e2e0
The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	The Loins Sleep Tonight / int_b3e0e2e0
TheSumOfAllFears	seeAlso	The Sum of All Fears
The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	Torture Always Works / int_b3e0e2e0
The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	Two-Keyed Lock / int_b3e0e2e0
The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	Western Terrorists / int_b3e0e2e0

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