Tom Clancy, Patriot Games. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1987. True First Edition. ISBN 0-399-13241-4. Copyright page has full number line "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10". Boards are light gray with off-white cloth spine and gold lettering. Back of dust jacket has seven reviews, and ISBN 0-399-13241-4 on the bottom corner. The book is 9.25 inches tall, and approximately 6.5 inches across. This book is a true first state, having the following errors that were corrected at some point within the first printing runs: the last line on page 227 is repeated on the first line of page 228, the bottom of page 228 is missing the line "Information—it's all a battle for information. You have to know" and the last line on page 230 is repeated on the first line of page 231. Also, the bottom of page 232 is missing the line "I can't say."
The book being offered for sale is in very good condition and appears unread. The book boards are very good, the text block is very good with only a few yellowed age spots. Spine is tight. Dust jacket is very good and is not price clipped, displaying original price of $19.95. Very slight scuffing to top of spine edge of jacket, all as indicated by my pictures, which are of the actual book being offered for sale. The book is from the important estate of Dr. Charles ("Chaz") and Betty Montgomery of Tupelo, MS, book collectors of many years' standing.
Patriot Games is a thriller published July,1987, featuring Jack Ryan, the main character in several of Clancy's books. The novel focuses on Ryan being the target of Irish terrorist group Ulster Liberation Army for thwarting their kidnapping attempt on the Prince and Princess of Wales in London. It debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. The book is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguished the author's two previous bestsellers, The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising. Patriot Games puts us on the cutting edge of another type of war — the international battle of terrorism.
It is fall. Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets, historian, ex-Marine and CIA analyst Jack Ryan is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter, when a terrorist attack takes place before his eyes. Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot. It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns whose lives he has saved -- the Prince and Princess of Wales and their new young son -- and which enemies he has made -- the Ulster Liberation Army, an ultra-left-wing splinter of the IRA. By his impulsive act, he has gained both the gratitude of a nation and then enmity of hits most dangerous men -- men who do not sit on their hate. And in the weeks and months to come, it is Jack Ryan, and his family, who will become the targets of that hate.
A film adaptation, starring Harrison Ford as Ryan, premiered on June 5, 1992.
A beautiful, collectible copy!