Clancy takes a bold look at what our nation's leaders are calling "the new world order". A world at peace, where yesterday's enemies are tomorrow's allies. The players are National Security Advisor Jack Ryan and his CIA colleagues. The crisis is a chain of events in which the wages of peace are as complex and devastating as the wages of war. 1994年初版、『日米開戦』（文春文庫刊）の題で邦訳出版。ジャック・ライアン シリーズ作。