Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy - Without Remorse

A Jack Ryan series of books. The book starts off with John Kelly and two other UDT men performing a maritime demolition of an oil-rig irreparably damaged by Hurricane Camille. The team set off a small explosive to scare away any fish, before neutralizing the oil-rig. While on his way home after the job, Kelly's pregnant wife Patricia (Tish) is killed in a car accident caused by a trucker whose brakes have gone out while trying to stop at a red light while driving down a hill.

Next to be introduced is Colonel Robin Zacharias, a devout Mormon and United States Air Force pilot, who is shot down along with his co-pilot John Tait during a bombing mission over North Vietnam. Tait is killed but Robin is captured and taken to a secret prison camp where the NVA beat him into unconsciousness and smear blood from Tait across Robins' face, which they then photograph so they can report him as KIA. Robin sees other prisoners in the camp all of high rank and all of whom have been reported dead by the North Vietnamese government. Among the prisoners are some who possess highly-classified knowledge, beyond the scope of the Vietnam conflict.

IMDB reports that Without Remorse is to be made into a movie and is expected to be released in 2008.

I loved this book and have read it numerous times - I can't wait to see the film.