BOOK                                           REAL LIFE
August 1985-        Jack Ryan takes a trip to          Two terrorists capture a TWA
                            London and stops a group      airliner with 133 aboard but all
                            of terrorists.                           hostages are released.

Fall 1985-             Jack goes to court against        A retired U.S. Naval Officer is
                            one of the terrorists that          convicted of espionage and being
                            he stopped.                            a spy.

December 1985-    Jack returns home from          The U.S. makes it mandatory
                            recovering from an                to have the budget- balancing
                            injury he obtained.                 bill put into use.

Christmas 1985-   The terrorist Jack caught          59 people were killed as the
                           escapes from custody              Egyptian forces storm down
                           and is on the loose.                  an airplane.

January 1986-      The terrorists are planning         The Challenger Space Shuttle
                           to attack in America for           explodes in at launch killing all
                           the first time ever.                   seven of its crew members.

March 1986-        Jacks family is attacked             Haley's comet, which only comes
                           by the terrorists but                 once in a while passes over the
                           they survive it.                         Earth for researchers to study it.

Spring 1986-       Jack finds out were the ULA      The nuclear power plant in Russia
                          terrorist camp is but when it      called Chernobyl leaks radiation
                          is attacked everyone is gone.      and shocks the world of its disaster.

June 1986-          Jack invites the Prince of           The Supreme Court votes to make
                          Whales to his house, the            abortions legal again after being
                          man he saved in Britain.            made illegal.

July 4, 1986-       Jack has the party but gets          Jerry A. Whitworth, an ex- naval
                          attacked by the terrorists            radioman, is guilty of being a
                          but they all escape.                     soviet spy.

July 5, 1986-       All the terrorist get caught          They discovered that Jerry A.
                         and jack’s wife has their              Whitworth was part of the Walker
                         baby too.                                   family spy ring.
 

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