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Summary: Another Thriller by the Master!!!
Review: Either you are a fan of Tom Clancy or you are not. Those who enjoy Clancy are not going to be able to put this book down, as President Jack Ryan faces his biggest crisis as President. The Chinese government is stirring up trouble, in Russia and in trade talks with the United States. An international incident erupts when the Beijing police kill 2 clergymen live on CNN, then are seen again by an international audience oppressing religious freedom. The Chinese go to war against the Soviet Union, not thinking the United States will do anything. The United States, though, goes to the aid of the Soviet Union, who had just been invited into NATO. Two old enemies of the Cold War are now on the same side, trying to avert a Third World War, and then, the book tenses up for an explosive climax. Although a lot of the readers' reviews of this are negative, at best, this book is typical Tom Clancy, and to Clancy fans, it's exactly what the doctor ordered!!
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Summary: Tom Clancy must be getting tired of writing about Jack Ryan.
Review: I was looking forward to this book just like the rest of the reviewers. Unfortunately I was diappointed as well, it took me about six months to finish this book, when I could normally finish a Tom Clancy book in about a week. You just had the feeling the Mr. Clancy was not having fun with this, and that he was just writing another Jack Ryan book just to keep his fans happy. The last good Jack Ryan book was Debt of Honor. I also had the feeling that he was on a soap box, with pages exposing his political views. This is not meant to be critical, I am just about as conservative as Mr. Clancy,but it seemed to detract from the book. I think he did this because he never did write a book he was planning to write,"Reality Check" several years ago. I can only hope that his next book he enjoys more, I have heard that he is planning on writing another Jack Ryan novel, but it is supposed to be different. After that lets hope he puts the Ryan series to rest, unless there will be more books with him after he leaves the White House. But I think it will be best if he invents new characters, and it will be better if we as his readers allow him to write something other that a Ryan book, it is not really not fair for us to constrain in that way.
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Summary: Good book but not Clancy's best
Review: I am a loyal Clancy reader and I count the days(or should I say years) between each book. This book follows in the basic Clancy mold. However I felt that this was not his best work.There was very little in the way of action, the bad guys did not do much of anything until the very end, and even then it was not much at all. It was mostly one sided,would of been nice to see a bit of action. We all know that Clancy is quite capable of that(Red Storn Rising for example). The worst part by far was the ending, what the heck was that with Ryan? This was a fairly big letdown from his previous book, Rainbow Six. I hope the next novel will have more of the Rainbow crew. Fans of Clancy will find this one to be a decent book, but will know that it is not one of his best.
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Summary: Getting Predictable
Review: I thought this book was well written, with several interesting parts. Tom Clancy kept me reading this book for several hours at a time. But, his books seem to be getting more and more predictable, almost like he's running out of ideas. It seemed easy for me to guess what the ending would be like by about half way through the novel. I still thought the book was full of action, and recommend it to any one else, but either get it at a library or wait until it's out on paperback. Still, I hope Clancy comes out with a new book soon, his action sequences can't be beat!
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Summary: Tom is the best.
Review: I'm a fan of Tom Clancy, I like his writing and his techno-thriller style. This book is so good you cannot stop reading. Greetz,
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Summary: When did "Clancy Do Dallas"?
Review: I was extremely disappointed that Mr. Clancy had to resort to sweeping out the gutter to replace the English language. Maybe a English 101 class would help. This is the first time I did not want to have my son read a Mr. Clancy book. If he is being paid by the word, then I understand. That would clear up the constant repeating of the same sentence again and again and again. At least Mr. Clancy did not come up with a fourth or fifth name for Ryan.
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Summary: didn't finish it
Review: I didn't like all the f-words he used even when it wasn't called for. I spent 3 yrs in the Air Force and worked in public until retirement and still think filthy talk is uncalled for to get your point over .LOOKS LIKE i WILL JUST HAVE TO QUIT READING HIS BOOKS.ijfishcatcher
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Summary: Tom, you're tight
Review: I am a 14 year old high school student and i've read all of the Clancy novels. while this one may not be his best (i like Red Storm Rising more), it was still a good book. there were the usual details on weapons but i think it should have had more action.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: I thought this was a pretty good book... some of the other reviews were, well... a bit harsh to say the least. I liked it though i thought it was quite exciting and kept me interested just about the whole time. Although at times it seemed a bit biased but nothing that bad, and i was very happy to find the boys from rainbow making an appearance. Well thats about it for me.
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Summary: A Bland Hiccup from a Norrmally Spectacular Author
Review: Normally I begin a Tom Clancy novel resigned to the task of slogging through the initial 250 pages of exposition, knowing the story will eventually grab me by the throat and drag me through a wild ride of high-tech action, political intrigue, and vivid characters. I waited...and I waited...but it just never happened.I have five essential gripes with this book: 1) How many countries are we going to go to war with? This time China, last time Iran, before that it was Japan. I can't wait for the next book, "Polar Bear Rising" in which we send stealth fighters to bomb the bejeesus out of Canada. The lack of a cold war has obviously emptied Clancy's bag of ideas. 2) I really do believe that a President who whines that much about how much he hates being president should be either shot or impeached. Okay, Tom, the best politicians are the blue collar everyman types who reluctantly accept the burden of office for the greater good. We get it. We don't need to hear our otherwise brave hero whine about being stuck in the job in every scene like an eight year-old forced to go to summer school. 3) There's nothing wrong with a political novel. There's nothing wrong with a novel espousing political beliefs. But if it's written by Tom Clancy I expect him to understand his subject as well as he understands spies and military hardware. His observations were the thin, vapid pablum of talk radio and his political scenarios were tenuous to say the least. 4) This guy is the best selling novelist in America. Why do all his characters (even some of the Chinese ones) talk like potty-mouthed factory workers? Characters like Jack Ryan are suddenly so profane and vulgar as to become unsympathetic. I've seen Clancy do better and I'm amazed a novel that took two years to write reads like it was slapped together a week before he sent it to his editor. 5) The plot was entirely predictable, the resolution being visible hundreds of pages in advance. I remember hating Steven Segal movies because he struts through the film kicking the snot out of everyone and never faces an opponent he can't humiliate with the wave of a hand. This book struck me the same way. I kept waiting for the agent in China to get discovered, but everything went according to plan. I kept waiting for China to pull some ace out of the hole in Siberia, but everything went according to plan. I kept waiting for the spy who tried to kill Golovko to shake his surveillance or try something unexpected, but everything went according to plan. I could go on, complaining about repeated phrases and poor sentence structure. (If I read one more time about our Navy giving them "one hell of a bellyache...) I just expected so much more from an author whose work I've loved so very much in the past. The Bear and the Dragon was a huge disappointment.
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