Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam war. One of them has always been obsessed with birds – but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?

CIA analyst Jack Ryan discovers that an Islamic terrorist group is constructing a nuclear warhead. Jack must thwart the plans of the terrorists to create a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia by detonating a nuclear weapon during a football game in Baltimore attended by both the U.S. President and Russia’s new President.