A blast from out of the past . . .
After a mission goes wrong Jack Ryan heads to Barcelona for some required R&R. In a restaurant he bumps into old friend Renee Moore - but they have barely time to talk before a bomb blows the place apart.
Dying in Jack´s arms, Renee gasps a final word: ´Sammler´. Unsure who or what this is but not a believer in coincidences, he decides to investigate both Renee´s reasons for being in Spain and the bombing itself.
Soon, Jack is on the trail of a secretive organisation intent on bringing the world´s great powers to the brink of war . . .