Tom Clancy · 1991 · thriller

Tom Clancy's 1991 thriller. An Israeli nuclear bomb, lost in the deserts of the 1973 war, is unearthed decades later by terrorists who rebuild it and smuggle it into the United States. When it detonates at the Super Bowl in Denver, the world lurches toward all-out nuclear war - and Jack Ryan must expose the plot before Washington and Moscow destroy each other.

1. 1
   The Golan

   In a farmer's field near the Golan Heights, lost since an Israeli jet went down in the 1973 war, a nuclear bomb is dug from the earth by terrorists who dream of setting the superpowers at each other's throats.

2. 2
   Denver

   Rebuilt and smuggled across the ocean into America, the weapon is carried to Denver and hidden at the Super Bowl, where its detonation kills thousands and, by design, points the blame straight at the Soviet Union.

3. 3
   Washington

   As Washington and Moscow slide toward nuclear war on hair-trigger alert, Jack Ryan races against the machinery of Armageddon itself, fighting to prove the blast was a terrorist trick before the missiles fly.