When the US Treasury Department mounts an operation to seize and sequester these assets, the Cartel leaders retaliate by assassinating the FBI Director on his secret mission to get approval from the Colombian District Attorney for the covert in-country operations. It turns out that the murdered owner of the luxury yacht was, in fact, the chief agent in the money laundering of the Cartel's financial assets throughout the US and Europe. They are inserted by a single helicopter into the jungle near the Colombia coast, where they carry out surveillance of the Cartel's secret airstrips and report to a satellite communication link when a drug-carrying plane takes off for the US. In the meantime a crack team of Spanish speaking sergeants are recruited from the US Army's Light Infantry Divisions and taken to a remote training camp high in the Colorado Rockies.

The 'Pirates' are apprehended and taken back to Mobile, Alabama. Off the Caribbean coast, the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Panache discovers the brutal murder of the owner and family and seizure of a sixty-foot luxury yacht. It is an election year and he has failed to keep his election promise to do something about drugs coming in from Colombia. The story begins in the Oval office at the White House, where the President authorizes a series of clandestine actions against the Colombia Drug Cartel operations. The narrative ranges from discussions in the Oval office between the President and Directors of the CIA and FBI, to close combat operations by US soldiers in the Colombian jungle and the exploits of the helicopter crews and CIA operatives who provide them support. But while they expect danger from without, the greatest threat of all may come from within.This is the fictional account of US covert actions against the Colombian Cartel drug trade.

With the help of field officer John Clark, Ryan intends to find out what’s really going on. ambassador and the visiting head of the F.B.I., their actions trigger a covert response from the American government-a response that goes horribly wrong.As the newly named Deputy Director of the CIA, Jack Ryan should be privy to operations like the one in Columbia, but he's been left completely in the dark. In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan gets caught in a war between the United States and a Colombian drug cartel and uncovers a shocking conspiracy.When Colombian drug lords assassinate both the U.S.

Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy