John Clark
John Clark is a character that appears in The Sum of All Fears film and the video game of the same name.
Biography
In 2002, Clark worked as a CIA field operative. After CIA Director William Cabot and analyst Jack Ryan traveled to Moscow to meet Russian President Alexander Nemerov, Ryan noted the absence of three scientists listed on the facility's roster. After receiving reliable intelligence from a confidential secure informant inside the Kremlin, codenamed "Spinnaker", Cabot sends Clark to Russia to investigate. Clark tracks the missing scientists to a former Soviet military facility in Ukraine, where Cabot suspects they are building a secret nuclear weapon that Russia could use without any method to trace it back to them.
Ryan discerns that a crate from the facility in Ukraine was flown to the Canary Islands, then sent to Baltimore on a cargo ship. Ryan later discovered that the crate held a nuclear bomb and managed to warn Cabot in time to evacuate President J. Robert Fowler from the football stadium he had been attending. Despite this, Fowler was injured from the detonation and Cabot died of his injuries
Ryan learns from a radiation assessment team that the isotopic signature from the nuclear blast indicated it was manufactured in the U.S.; evidence which seems to exonerate Russia. In Syria, Clark tracked down Ghazi, one of the men who found the bomb, now dying of radiation exposure. He tells Clark that he sold the bomb to Derek Olson, who lives in Damascus. Ryan's colleagues at Langley infiltrate Olson's computer and download files that implicate Richard Dressler as the person who bought the plutonium and who is behind the nuclear attack. Ryan manages to reach the NMCC in the Pentagon and get a message to Russian President Alexander Nemerov saying that he knows that Russia was not behind the attack, while also asking Nemerov to stand down his forces as a show of good faith. Nemerov agrees to do so as Fowler follows suit. With the crisis averted, Clark finds and assassinates Olson. Meanwhile, several co-conspirators, including Dressler, are assassinated. Clark then recruits members of the FBI Hostage Rescue Team and has them find and kill the remaining conspirators.
Trivia
- In the video game adaptation, Clark's appearance is identical to his appearance in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Despite this, this version of Clark is different from the one depicted in the Rainbow Six video games.
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