The Sum of All Fears
The book The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy, is part of the Jack Ryan series. It was the fourth book of the series to be turned into a film.
The book is about a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear weapon made from an old Israeli bomb. Jack Ryan at the time DDCI (Deputy Director of Central Intelligence) has to prevent a nuclear exchange between Russia and the USA.
The book began with this quote:
- "Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears." — Winston Churchill
It was turned into a film in 2002, starring Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman. While the basic plot was the same, there were significant changes from the book, including the identity and ideology of the terrorists. The original terrorists in the novel were Muslims, but in the movie, they are changed to neo-Nazis. Additionally, Jack Ryan is a low-level analyst in the movie, whereas he is the head of the CIA in the book.
On the film there is this sentence:
- "You do not fight the Russians and then the Americans. You put the Russians fighting the Americans." —
It is interesting to note the prescience of Tom Clancy. The book was written several years before 9/11 yet it describes in detail the reality of terrorism in America. It is also interesting to note that the movie was made after 9/11, which may be the reason that the identity and ideology of the terrorists was modified from Muslim extremists to Neo Nazis.
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