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Summary: Contrived and Cliche Ridden
Review: This was a terrible book. Right-thinking fascists blow the daylights out of horrible, menacing tree huggers. The characters were so unreal it was hard to finish the book. It would have been much better to portray the trained killers (the supposed heroes)as tortured ambivalent souls rather than caring family men. Caring family men do not become covert operatives, stroking their guns for a living. Also Clancey allows his own disdane for environmentalists to show through and often allows his characters to preach to the reader.
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Summary: Clancy at his worst.
Review: As a long-time Clancy fan, I was deeply disappointed with this latest effort. The plot was lame, the ideology was shallow (and endlessly repeated) and the characters nanometer thin. Looks to me like Clancy has gotten so big for his britches that he has demanded publication of his first draft without meddling by a copy editor -- and that was a big mistake.
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Summary: Thank goodness for public libraries!
Review: This book was absolute, long-winded drivel. Time for clancy-San to come up with some new characters. I usually enjoy Clancy's work because of the attention to detail that he gives the readers, but that attention to detail, not to mention character developement, is glaringly lacking in this novel.I have been waiting for Clancy's work to improve since he wrote "The sum of all fears" but I have been consistently let down. I didn't even bother to buy this one, I got it from the library. Good thing, I would have been really angry if I had spent 30 dollars for it. The thing I hated most about this book is that Clancy creates an aura of greatness around the "Rainbow" (stupid name) organization, whenin reality they weren't doing anything that a good polce S.W.A.T. Team couldn't do with a tenth of the assets. Absolute garbage.
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Summary: The latest Clancy is heavy going.
Review: Having read all of the previous Jack Ryan/John Clark novels I was looking forward to this, but was in many ways disappointed. The story doesn't really come together and move at the usual Clancy pace till around page 550, which makes the first two thirds of the book very heavy going. Also, we learn nothing new about John Clark, yet one of the subtler pleasures of the previous novels was the gradual unfolding of his character. The plot is, in part, a rehash of Executive Orders and is weaker than Clancy's usual standard. Finally, while I always realized the man is right wing, it's now begining to get in the way of his writing - feral greenies indeed! And check out the jacket photo - the man's begining to think he's John Clark (or is that Jack Ryan?!).
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Summary: Classic Clancy! Yet another plausible ride of your life.
Review: Clancy has a great opener for the set up to the story. Many will remember the mid 70's and through the 80's as hostage ridden. This story will take you into the world of the terrorist like no other. Clancy delivers a high impact ride through the world of those who would terrorize and those whom the terrorist themselves fear. As a military officer some would say that I am biased to this type of reading as it is a story line that is of great military interest, however, Clancy does his homework and has your attention from start to finish with a storyline that reaches global proportions and has you guessing. The reader is not just treated to the story of what is going to happen, but all the behind the scenes detail that rounds out the story, bringing it to a greater level of reality. A great read.
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Summary: Alright Tom!!! Where's the movie?
Review: I just got through reading Blind Mans Bluff and Lady President and decided to pick up Rainbow Six. Very impressive work Mr. Clancy. I especially like the way you stick to details and the idea that we must always keep fighting for freedom.
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Summary: Another preachy tome
Review: The Hunt for Red October was a great read, and I probably can't expect Clancy to reach that height when he's expected to crank out a 700-page tome every twelve months. But this was the worst product he's produced. It appears to be ready made for Hollywood. Maybe he's tired of scriptwriters butchering his product and has prepared a ready-for-Hollywood text, but this is trite and preachy. While trying to get into his characters' heads, he has become an apologist for the Conservative Agenda. This time the enemy are enviromentalists. If he keeps up with this trend, I expect Jack Ryan to have an affair with an intern in the next book. Well, maybe he can get some good material from the Starr Report.
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Summary: All right, could have been better
Review: Not Clancy's best, but still good. I would have liked more development of the characters, both good and bad. They were too black or white. As a special forces soldier, I know that we have a spectrum of people serving and our potential enemies also run the gamut. I recommend a few other books: Coonts latest, Andy McNabbs-- BRAVO TWO ZERO is real good about the SAS; Bob Mayer's SF books like CUT OUT or ETERNITY BASE; Joe Dalton's THE OMEGA MISSILE. All those guys, unlike Clancy, actually served in the military so there's an extra edge of realism to their books. DE OPPRESSO LIBER
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Summary: CLANCY DOES IT AGAIN!!!!
Review: From what I've seen, this hasn't gotten the best of reviews in some places. Why a lot of people didn't like it is obvious to me: Clancy deals with very complex issues and writes very complex books. Many people don't like complex because they think it's confusing. But if that is the case, don't knock it. This is the best book of the year.
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Summary: Not Clancy's best but entertaining.
Review: This book could have benefitted from some serious editing. The repetitive passages of environmental talk really got boring. Some exciting action made it worth the time to read, but I found the ending very unsatisfying with many loose ends not properly resolved. Tom needs a really tough editor!
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