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ALSO BY TOM CLANCY
The Hunt for Red October
Red Storm Rising
Patriot Games
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Clear and Present Danger
The Sum of All Fears
Without Remorse
Nonfiction
Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship
Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment
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This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary: the settings and
characters are fictitious and not intended to represent specific places or living persons.
Copyright (c) 1994 by Jack Ryan Limited Partnership
All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof,
may not be reproduced in any form without permission.
Published simultaneously in Canada
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clancy, Tom, date.
Debt of honor / by Tom Clancy.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-399-13954-0 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-399-13960-5 (limited edition)
i. Ryan, Jack (Fictitious character)-Fiction. 2. Intelligence
service-United States-Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.L245D43 1994
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This book is printed on acid-free paper.
For Mom and Dad
A man's character is his fate
-Heraclitus
Acknowledgments
Carter and Wox for the procedures,
Russ, again, for the physics,
Tom, Paul, and Bruce for the world's best cartography,
Keith for the airman's perspective on it,
Tony for the attitude,
Piola and her friends on Saipan for local color,
And Sandy for one hell of a ride in a snake.
DEBT OF
Prologue
Sunset, Sunrise
In retrospect, it would seem an odd way to start a war. Only one of the
participants knew what was really happening, and even that was a coinci-