The president's (Donald Moffat) friend is killed in the Caribbean. And the president wants to seek revenge. He indirectly orders forces to Columbia. In this movie the head of the CIA (James Earl Jones) is diagnosed with cancer. Consequently Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) is shoved more into the spotlight. The president wrangles him to go to Columbia. They have discovered accounts in the name of the president's deceased friend where he was laundering drug money. The Columbian drug lord is Ernesto Escobedo (Miguel Sandoval) and his henchman is Felix Cortez (Joaquim de Almeida). Clark (Willem Dafoe) is tasked with putting together a team to go to Columbia. These men are good at their job and cause Escobedo some headaches. James Cutter (Harris Yulin) as security advisor and Robert Ritter (Henry Czerny) as his underling put the program together. The even direct a plane dropping a bomb on a meeting of cartel leaders.
Eventually Ryan, as the deputy director of the CIA, figures out what is happening. Part of this is that a secretary (Ann Magnuson) of the US. government has inadvertently been feeding information to Cortez. Cortez kills her. Ryan's wife (Anne Archer) notices that her death coincides with other happenings, and they realize it is tied with the Columbian issue. Cortez is tracked and a conversation intercepted he has with Cutter. The President, Cutter and Ritter kill the programs with no extraction. Ryan decides to go down to Columbia and get the U.S. service men out if he can. He and Clark are to the rescue.
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