Ex-CIA agent Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) is forced back into service when he saves the lives of the English minister to Northern Ireland and his family from a terrorist attack killing one of the perpetrators in the process. The dead man s brother also a member of an IRA splinter faction vows revenge on Ryan and his family and pursues them to the United States. Ryan knows it is only a matter of time till he comes face to face with his nemesis and that only one of them will come out alive. Based on Tom Clancy s bestselling novel.