Hey! The dates in this book don work out! Whats going on here?
Yes, there are time/date conflicts in the books. It is fiction, folks, so not everything has to match the “real world” perfectly. Clancy has stated that there are three irreconcilable time conflicts in Without Remorse alone (I haven’t figured them out myself). That’s likely to happen in fiction.Back to TopB15 — Ryan’s Intelligence StarsIn the first chapter of Sum of All Fears, the National Security Advisor remarks that Ryan has “Two Intelligence Stars, the submarine business… and the thing with Gerasimov.” The text then says “Jack actually had three. But the decoration for the third was locked away in a very safe place, and was something so secret that even the new President didn’t and wouldn’t ever know.”It is often wondered what the third star is for. The first is obviously for bringing in Red October in HFRO. The second is for arranging Gerasimov’s defection in COTK. The third, most secret one, is for Ryan’s rescue of the US troops in Colombia during CAPD.
