The Sum of All Fears: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

The book The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy, is part of the Jack Ryan series. It was the fourth book of the series to be turned into a film.

The book is about a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear weapon made from an old Israeli bomb. Jack Ryan at the time DDCI (Deputy Director of Central Intelligence) has to prevent a nuclear exchange between Russia and the USA.

The book began with this quote:

"Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears." — Winston Churchill

It was turned into a film in 2002, starring Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman with a change in the identity and ideology of the terrorists. The original terrorists in the novel were Muslims, but in the movie, they are changed to neo-Nazis.