Chapter 23, The Games Begin Summary

Ramon and Jesu, the two pirates who committed such brutal murders on board the yacht are mysteriously stabbed to death in the jail in Mobile, Alabama. The Patterson brothers are among the convicts in the showers at the time the double stabbing takes place, but there is no reliable account as to what happened. The break in and robbery of a police car, in Mobile, leads to the disappearance of the evidence which would incriminate the Patterson brothers in their own murder case.

Jack Ryan confronts his senior and fellow Directors at the CIA about their role in Colombia. He suddenly realizes the implications when Judge Moore assures him that the Agency has not used car bombs in Colombia. He now knows that this is a deliberate partial truth designed to cover up the agency's role in...