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Clear and Present Danger (1994) More at IMDbPro »

Jack Ryan is back and this time the bad guys are in his own government. When Admiral James Greer becomes sick with cancer, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. Almost before he can draw a breath in his new position, one of the president's closest friends and his family are murdered in their sleep by what appears to by drug cartels. Ryan is called in to investigate, but unknown to him the CIA has already sent a secret field operative to lead an illegal paramilitary force in Colombia against cartels. Things get even more complicated when his team is set up and he loses and agent in the field and a friend of his wife's, who was the murdered agent's secretary is murdered that same day. Ryan must then risk not only his career, but his life to expose the truth behind the mystery. Written by SindyMac

Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, is thrust right in the middle of a power struggle within the Colombian drug cartel after one of the President's "life long" friends is murdered, apparently in retaliation for stealing money as part of a money laundering scheme for the cartel. Jack is then appointed acting Deputy Director of Intelligence, CIA, upon the terminal illness of Admiral James Greer, former DDI, and quickly gets in over his head due to his political naivete. The situation rapidly deteriorates when some of the presidents men convince the President to conduct covert actions against the cartel, in direct violation of congress. Felix Cortez, the security chief of Ernesto Escobeda, the "victim" of the missing money, is one of the cartel boss's. Cortez tries to play both sides, appearing to inform Escobeda about the CIA's involvement in the covert operations against him, while trying to orchestrate a coup to take over the cartel, with Cortez as it's sole boss. James Cutter, the President's National Security Advisor, makes his own deal with Cortez, with the Presidents knowledge, and halts communications to the covert troops still in Colombia, through the Deputy Director of Operations, CIA, Robert Ritter. Ryan ends up going to Colombia to rescue the covet ops troops with the help of field agent John Clark, but not before some fence mending between the two, being that Ritter blamed Ryan for the comm outage, with Clark's men subsequently being captured by Cortez's mercenaries. Written by Bill Walch {TheWalchs@aol.com}

When an American businessman who's a good friend of the President's is killed along with his entire family. And the killings appear to be the work of a Columbian Drug Cartel. Upon hearing of this the President tells his National Security Adviser that he wants him to start a Black Op against the Columbians. At the same time the President orders every Agency to find out why his friend was killed. So CIA Deputy Director James Greer who as soon as receiving the order gets sick and asks his protégé Jack Ryan to fill in for him. Jack finds himself working with Robert Ritter whom Greer tells him not to trust.And Ritter is the one Cutter asks to handle the operation. Jack eventually finds out that the businessman may have been doing business with the Columbians and may have embezzling from them. When Ritter puts the plan in operation the Columbians are wondering who is after them. So the Cartel's Intelligence man Felix Cortez tries to find out and is also plotting to remove the head of the Cartel and take over. And when one of Ritter's operations kills a girl Ryan starts to look into it. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com

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