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''[[The Sum of All Fears]]'' is a best-selling thriller novel by [[Tom Clancy]], and part of the Jack Ryan series. It was the fourth book of the series to be turned into a film. An interesting historical note is that this book was released just days before the Moscow uprising in 1991, which finally signaled the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Russian politics in the aftermath of the destruction of the Berlin Wall is a main element of the book.▼
| title = The Sum of All Fears
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| author = Tom Clancy
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| elevator pitch = Arab terrorists get their hands on a nuclear bomb and try to set it off within the United States, and a burned out Jack Ryan is the [[Only Sane Man]] in a dangerously paranoid U.S. administration.
| genre =
| franchise = Jack Ryan
| preceded by = Clear and Present Danger
| followed by = Debt of Honor
| publication date = August 14, 1991
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The title is based on an anecdote recounted in the foreword: when you get a group of already hostile people together, their fears are amplified, to the point where the slightest misstep can set them on a course for war.
The movie stars [[Ben Affleck]], [[Liev Schreiber]], and [[Morgan Freeman]], and is notable for changing the villains from Arab terrorists to Neo-Nazis while advancing the timeline to 2003.
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* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Both Fowler and Elliot go into full BSOD mode when they realize how close they came to starting [[World War Three]]. Fowler resigns his presidency immediately afterwards and Elliot gets taken to a mental hospital.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Elizabeth Elliot, made worse because of her relationship with President Fowler. She becomes his most trusted advisor but her paranoid insecurity causes her to lead him to the brink of nuclear war. She has a full on breakdown afterwards.
* [[Shoot the Builder]]: When terrorists assumed that the bomb that the bomb was finished, they killed the nuclear engineer. They shoulda allowed him to triple check everything first.
* [[Super Bowl]]: Where the terrorists plan to detonate their nuclear bomb.
* [[Torture Always Works]]: Subverted. The terrorists [[False-Flag Operation|lie about who]] their backer is, when they are subjected to torture. They had intended to do this all along.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Subverted. Unlike most other villains Clancy writes, the ones in this book are quite honest with themselves. Qati and Bock admit to themselves they just want revenge. Elliot makes no bones about her pursuit of power and her own vendettas, and even the characters who aren't so much evil as they just [[Jerkass]]es are quite honest with themselves about their own motivations.
* [[Western Terrorists]]: The Warrior Society.
* [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]: Lampshaded by various characters, who find it hard to do this over the sweeping political changes that drive the conflicts of the book.
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* [[Your Days Are Numbered]]: Qati, the leader of the terrorist group, is dying of cancer. He views the bomb plot as his [[The Last Dance|last chance]] to strike a devastating blow against America. His cancer meds are a [[Chekhov's Gun]] that clue Clark into seeing through the [[False-Flag Operation]].
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