target drone (specified in the book as a buffalo hunter) discovers Air Force Colonel Robin Zacharias as a prisoner of war in a secret camp administered by the NVA. Kelly is gravely wounded by a shotgun blast, while Pam is recaptured and later tortured, gang-raped, and killed. One of them recognizes Pam and pursues them in a car chase. Kelly takes them scouting through the neighborhood where her pimps work. Weeks after recovering, Kelly and Pam go to Baltimore for follow-up treatment. Kelly, along with the help of doctors Sam and Sarah Rosen, helps rehabilitate her from barbiturates. They quickly become lovers, and over time Kelly discovers her full name, Pamela Madden, and that she is a runaway who became a drug mule and prostitute she has recently escaped from her drug-dealer/pimp Henry Tucker. In 1970, former Navy SEAL John Kelly, who recently lost his pregnant wife, Patricia, in a car accident, picks up a hitchhiker named Pam on his way to his home on Battery Island in the Chesapeake Bay. The book debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list. Putnam's Sons paid $14 million for the North American rights, a record for a single book. Without Remorse introduces Clark as former Navy SEAL John Kelly and explains how he changed his name. Set during the Vietnam War, it serves as an origin story of John Clark, one of the recurring characters in the Ryanverse. Without Remorse is a thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and published on August 11, 1993.

Without Remorse by Tom Clancy