Technothrills: Peace in Eastern Europe has not soothed the fevered imagination of Tom Clancy. In The Sum of All Fears he has unleashed on the planet a band of leftist terrorists with a cache of stolen nuclear weapons. That plot, plus the Clancy touch with technology, has put his new book on the list at No. 9 this week. WEEKS FICTION ON LIST 1 THE KITCHEN GOD'S WIFE 9 Amy Tan, Putnam, $22.95 2 THE FIRM 25 John Grisham, Doubleday, $19.95 3 MAXIMUM BOB 4 Elmore Leonard, Delacorte, $20 4 LOVES MUSIC, LOVES TO DANCE 16 Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $21.95 5 PASTIME 5 Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $19.95 6 OUTER BANKS 7 Anne Rivers Siddons, HarperCollins, $19.95 7 STAR WARS: HEIR TO THE EMPIRE, Vol. I 13 Timothy Zahn, Spectra/Bantam, $15 8 BEAST 10 Peter Benchley, Random House, $21 9 THE SUM OF ALL FEARS 2 Tom Clancy, Putnam, $24.95 10 PARADISE 8 Judith McNaught, Pocket Books, $19.95

NONFICTION 1 PARLIAMENT OF WHORES 10 P.J. O'Rourke, Atlantic Monthly Press, $19.95 2 CHUTZPAH 10 Alan Dershowitz, Little, Brown, $22.95 3 IRON JOHN: A BOOK ABOUT MEN 38 Robert Bly, Addison-Wesley, $18.95 4 WHEN YOU LOOK LIKE YOUR PASSPORT PHOTO, IT'S TIME TO GO HOME 5 Erma Bombeck, HarperCollins, $19.95 5 TOUJOURS PROVENCE 10 Peter Mayle, Knopf, $20 6 FINAL EXIT 2 Derek Humphry, Hemlock/Carol, $16.95 7 FIRE IN THE BELLY: ON BEING A MAN 10 Sam Keen, Bantam, $19.95 8 WEALTH WITHOUT RISK 129 Charles J. Givens, Simon & Schuster, $19.95 9 DO IT! LET'S GET OFF OUR BUTS 11 John-Roger and Peter McWilliams, Prelude/Bantam, $20 10 BOSS OF BOSSES: THE FALL OF THE GODFATHER: THE FBI AND PAUL CASTELLANO 8 Joseph F. O'Brien and Andris Kurins, Simon & Schuster, $22.95