Governmental rhythms dilated in comparison with tight rhythms of action that become more and more dynamic.
Anti-narcotics shoot on the home of drug traffickers who are not inside; women and children also die.
Jack Ryan investigates the type of weapons that lead back to US weapons and the traffickers discover through other people that the US has been attacking the home of traffickers in Colombia.
Representatives connected to the narcos ask an American representative to annihilate the anti-narcos. "Everything is right or wrong," says Jack Ryan when he tries to find out who authorized the shooting.
He finds out that it was the US president who authorized the CIA.
Anti-narcos are isolated in communications and are massacred. Jack Ryan finds out and orders everything to be recorded.
One of the infiltrators warns the captain that Ryan has discovered everything and ordered to close the satellite.
The captain captures Ryan and when he understands he wants to help him he asks for a helicopter.
They find a single survivor.
Ryan proposes in return Felis Cortez, who wanted to do business with the US government. Another narcos bursts and kills the chief narcos and a sniper rescues Ryan from the distance and Captain Clark enters the room. They go to free the two prisoners who are in bad condition.
With many difficulties they manage to escape with the helicopter.
Ryan accuses the president, demonstrating for justice that he wants to attack even the highest plans of the government.
A reflection on justice that is extremism to the two poles: "right or wrong" as Jack Ryan says and in this thriller there are no middle ways because any compromise is a corruption that leads to the death of other people.