Over the course of seven novels, Tom Clancy's "genius for big,
compelling plots" and his "natural narrative gift" (The New York Times
Magazine) have mesmerized tens of millions of readers and established
him as one of the preeminent storytellers of our time. Without Remorse,
however, goes beyond anything he has ever done. Its hero is John Kelly,
a man well familiar to Clancy's readers by his code name, Mr. Clark. In
The Sum of All Fears, he hunted down nuclear terrorists. In Clear and
Present Danger, he led aerial raids against drug lords. In The Cardinal
of the Kremlin, he spirited away a KGB chief's family by submarine. But
nothing will ever be as deadly - or as personal - as the danger he must
face in Without Remorse. John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam
veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six
months before, when he befriends a young woman with a decidedly
checkered past. When that past reaches out for her in a particularly
horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and, assembling all of his old
skills, sets out to track down the men responsible, before it can happen
again. At the same time, the Pentagon is readying an operation to rescue
a key group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. One
man, they find, knows the terrain around the camp better than anyone
else they have: a certain former Navy SEAL named John Kelly. Kelly has
his own mission. The Pentagon wants him for theirs. Attempting to juggle
the two, Kelly (now code-named Mr. Clark) finds himself confronted by a
vast array of enemies, both at home and abroad - men so skillful that
the slightest misstep means death. And the fate of dozens of people,
including Kelly himself, restson his making sure that misstep never
happens. Men aren't born dangerous. They grow dangerous. And the most
dangerous of all, Kelly learns, are the ones you least expect... As
Clancy takes us through the twists and turns of Without Remorse, he
blends the exceptional realism and au
