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Clear and Present Danger is about the US government secretly plotting against the Colombian drug cartel. Airforce secretly shooting down planes that are smuggling drugs into the US, special ops forces secretly dropped into Colombia killing off the big players. People start catching wind of what the US is doing, shit hits the fan. Lots of CIA/FBI/military stuff.
Another good one by him is Debt of Honor where the US is secretly at war with Japan. A japanese airline pilot takes revenge on the US by crashing his plane into the State Capitol during the swearing-in ceremony of the new VP (the old VP was impeached), killing the President and all of Congress. The new VP was VP for all of 2 minutes before he suddenly becomes the President.
The sequel to that one is Executive Orders, where the new President has to build up the entire US government from scratch. Other countries start taking advantage of US's vulnerability. Stock market takes a shit. Hussein is assassinated and Iraq & Iran join together to form a new country to - along with India and China - bring down the US. The old impeached VP tries saying the new Pres isn't really Pres, that he (the old VP) was never officially impeached. That one was really, really good. Lots of different things happening at once.
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