Chapter 24, Ground Rules Summary

Team KNIFE has met up with the remnants of the BANNER team, Chavez realizes they will have to fight, but Captain Ramirez is still trying to avoid detection. Clark and Larson are on the road in the area but don't have any radios with which to contact the ground teams. Clark kills three Cartel soldiers when they stop him and Larson. He sets fire to the soldiers' truck, and he and Larson use Larson's plane to leave Colombia and catch a ride from the US base in Panama to Washington D.C.

Using the safe combinations he has found in Admiral Greer's office, Jack Ryan photocopies all the files on the covert operations being run by Ritter. After studying the copies most of the night, he goes to his friend Dan Murray in the FBI for help. A team...