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The book starts with Jack being on vacation with his family in London and being present to foil an assassination attempt on what turns out to be the Prince and Princess of Wales (changed to a more generic British noble in the movie adaptation), which turns him and his family into a target of an Irish terrorist group, which Jack joins the CIA to both defend his family and put an end to their terrorism.

 

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* [[Adaptation Decay]]: The movie, while making understandable changes to compress the book to fit in a 90 minute movie, also tries to change a few elements to make the movie more action oriented, resulting in most of Jack's CIA scenes being omitted as well as completely changing the ending, which omits the conclusion of the book in favor of a more generic ending.

* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: Dennis Cooley, a mild mannered bookshop owner, is in reality the key link in a courier chain for intelligence leaked from the highest level of the British government, but despite an easily exposed past with possible ties to the ULA's leader and a Communist family, the Brits find it incredibly hard to pin him down on any legal wrong since they cannot find evidence of deliberate wrongdoing on his part. {{spoiler|In fact, they never find it, even after Cooley flees London due to fear he has been exposed, and only get confirmation of his guilt post mortem at the book's end}}.

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