Rating: 
Summary: ok
Review: I just finished this book last week and im gonna switch to Teeth Of The Tiger probably next week and well i think that this book was like exciting (yeah for the last 168 pages) and the other estimated 450 was just plain talking. 3 stars is good but not that good (AKA major flaw) but overall it was a kinda a dissapointment. and the last part went kinda fast. like in one page it was all over. anyway if your a die hard Clancy Fan and you've already read this book and you think the same way... cool.Compared to the other Clancy Masterpeices such as Rainbow Six, and Hunt For Red October, (besides red rabbit the only others ive read.) This book was awsome if you are some political guy but un fotunatly (i cant spell that) im not. To all the very exciting and incredible books that were before this one were reportidly SO MUCH BETTER. I swear The Theeth Of The Tiger has to be WAY better than Red Rabbit. Tom I thank you for trying.
Rating: 
Summary: give it up
Review: Take a recycled character that calls his wife "babe" incessantly. Mention every other page that he was in the Marine Corps, had Marine training, etc. Then put him into a situation where the outcome is already known. I think Clancy's gotten enough mileage out of Jack Ryan and it's time for him to move on. By far the worst book he has written.
Rating:
Summary: Good story, bad politics.
Review: I haven't finsihed it yet, but like 'The Bear and the Dragon' (which I enjoyed) this is shaping up to be an engrossing book with a good plot and more character-driven than his classic 'action' stories such as 'Hunt for Red October' and 'Red Storm Rising'. If only he'd lay off the pro-American propoganda, repeatedly stating how corrupt the Russian government is and how socialism is a ridiculous concept, compared to good 'ole Capitalism. He even has a go at the UK, whilst completely ignoring any US shortcomings, which are all too obvious to those on this side of the Atlantic. Still, a good book, despite the fact that sometimes whilst reading it you have to think to yourself 'Uh oh - here he goes again!'. And I've just read the bit where the British surgeons leave a patient on the operating table whilst they just pop to the pub for lunch, have a couple of pints before going back to finish the op! ("I say Clive, fancy a pint?" "Don't mind if I do, Charles") - standard practise in the socialist NHS, apparently. By the way, Mr Clancy, the clock tower on the Houses of Parliment is called St Stephen's Tower, not St Mary's.
Rating:
Summary: An utter waste of time
Review: I can only add, to what has already been written, the following: it was my immediate impression that this achingly slow and pained story had rested on Tom Clancy's office shelf for nearly 20 years and was brought out merely to fulfill an obligation to the publisher. the story is so lacking in suspense and so full of never resolved plot defects that it is truly hard to believe that this tome was written by the same hand that crafted stories the likes of "Cardinal of the Kremlin" et al. Frankly, I was hoping and praying that some of the idiotic plot twists would SOMEHOW get resolved or explained but that was not to be. too bad, I hope I am able to stomach another run at his latest work.
Rating:
Summary: Waste of time
Review: What were you thinking, Tom? This book was definitely inferior, and a waste of both time and money. Boring!
Rating:
Summary: Save a bullet for me
Review: At least that's what I told my wife if she ever saw me pick up a Tom Clancy book again. What a painful experience. There have been a lot of comments about the profanity in the dialogue but stupidity would be a larger concern. I have heard more intelligent conversations late at night at local beer joints than in these hallowed halls of government. It took Clancy (and us) 600 plus pages to get through a story that LeCarre would have made brilliant in half that space. Tom is like an aging ball player who has hung around too long. Hang it up partner and thanks for the memories.
Rating:
Summary: Tom Clancy is losing it
Review: Sorry Tom, but it's time for you to retire. For more than one reason, for all that matters. Two things come to mind after having read Red Rabbit. First, Tom Clancy is, as a true patriot should, taking the side of the american government in the conflict about how the international political game should be played in the post 9/11 world. It's a pity that Red Rabbit draws more attention to Tom Clancy's political views than to the story he's telling on the side and it's sure to scare off many of his european fans. Second, the depth, or rather the lack of it, of Tom Clancy's background research on european culture and history confirms the image we europeans have about americans being intellectually superficial. After having read the entire Jack Ryan saga and having been a die-hard Tom Clancy fan for his accurate analysis and background information, Red Rabbit has destroyed the image that I had of Tom Clancy as a thourough researcher and an impartial writer. Just curiosity and my hope that this was a mere slip of Tom's pen will make me read The Teeth of the Tiger after this. As for the book: the explanation of how a patriot's eyes are opened to see the truth behind his country's lies and how he turns on his own country because it is crossing a line of tolerable behavior carries a more interesting and important lesson than Tom's analysis and story-telling of the conspiracy theory around the attempted assasination of Pope John Paul II by Ali Agda. I am sad. Tom Clancy is no more.
Rating: 
Summary: Clancy Slipping!
Review: The quality and readibility of the books of Tom Clancy keep
getting worse and worse.This book is just plain bad.The Russians
decied to assassinate the Pope.His opposition to their policies
and actions make him a marked man.The Russians bring in a hired
killer in the form of Agca.The Americans discover the plot and rush to stop it.No shots are fired until deep in the book.Then
the book finally comes to an end.This book does not even compare
with the quality writings that we have enjoyed in the past.Those
were the good old days. I hope that Tom Clancy rediscovers his
old self.
Rating:
Summary: Not ready for reading
Review: I remember the night I started reading his earlier book, Red October. I was down on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Dawn the next day found me literally holding my eyes open with my fingers to get to the end. That will not happen to anyone with this book. It is simply too formulaic. While Frederick Forsythe could turn an even less successful attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle into the very suspenseful Day of the Jackal, Clancy has much less luck with the attempt on the life of the Pope. The idea actually has the potential for Clancy to have made a much better story, but he wastes it on showing how much he knows about the arcane world of spies and counter spies and on how much he thinks America is better than Soviet Russia was and how many hot stocks Ryan can identify before they take off. Sort of John O'Hara of the Big Board. There was never a willing suspension of disbelief and this book badly needed at least one, or two.
Rating:
Summary: Shouldn't have started
Review: Despite the numerous poor ratings, I gave this a shot. Like so many others, I was very disappointed. It's not an action story - there's three shots fired around page 625. It's not a spy story - every "spy-like" effort goes perfectly and there is little ... actually no ... intrigue. Everyone has a bad day, and I'll give Tom Clancy another chance on his next book. But once I started I felt compelled to finish in the hope that it would get better. It didn't. If you are looking for classic Clancy fiction, take my advice - skip this one.
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