On Saipan, a dangerously power-hungry Japanese businessman, who still blames the United States for the suicide deaths of his parents at the end of World War II, plans and sets into motion his revenge. Off Sri Lanka, the Indian Navy is playing hide and seek with a U.S. carrier battle group while unrest builds on the island. In the headquarters of the major American stock clearinghouse, a computer wizard brings a very special computer program on-line for the first time. These are just the first in a series of incidents that will precipitate the world into another global conflict. Beginning with a fatal car accident in the U.S., caused by faulty gas tanks on two Japanese-made cars, events quickly spiral out of control.
Old enemies are friends, friends are enemies, and war has been transformed.
As always, Tom Clancy spends almost as much ink instructing as he does entertaining. By the time you reach the unexpected climax of Debt of Honor , you will have had an introduction into currency trading, world finance, the stock market, economics, Asian business, and intelligence operations among others. Clancy does not go in for bashing Japan, but makes it clear just how far even a small number of extremely powerful, wealthy individuals can go when driven to control their nation. Debt of Honor may be Tom Clancy's best yet.