Debt of honor is a Romance of Tom Clancy published in 1994.

Short summary of the account

Jack Ryan, which left several years before the CIA, returns to the government to the station of Advising with Safety Nationale.
During this time, an industrialist Japanese puts the last key at his plan to paralyze America and to change the balance of the forces in favor of his country. This implies to destabilize the US economy, and to push back the US Navy…

This book became famous after the attacks of the September 11th, 2001. Indeed, at the end, Jack Ryan is named American Vice-Président. The Congrès of the United States is joined together for this nomination… which is stopped when a Japanese pilot crashe his plane (a Boeing 747) on the Capitole, killing the majority of the members, the President, etc Jack Ryan becomes President then.

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