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Summary: Cardinal of the Kremlin
Review: I thought that this was a great way for Clancy to tie together some loose ends. The way hetells about the escape certainly seemed realistic.
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Summary: another 5 star book by Tom Clancy
Review: It's amazing how Clancy combines technical facts and thrilling action into one book, tieing you into the world of spys and counter-spys. A high placed informer in the Kremlin itself get's discovered by the KGB. Both sides try to get him first now. It all ends in a dramatically deliverance from the most feared prison of "Mother Russia". While in the same time The Soviets' high security military project starts to burn. A real masterpiece of modern literature and a must-have for every Clancy or Spy Novel fan
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Summary: Great Story Almost Hacked to Death
Review: David Stiers does a great job with the voice characterizations of this Tom Clancy best seller; you will have no problem keeping the multitude of characters straight. My biggest disappointment was in how far down they had trimmed the rendition. For those of you who have not read the book the audio will be very good, but you will find the characters lacking depth and the story literally whizzing along without really being that riveting. Still, the audio is crisp and clear in a car environment and will be entertaining. 3 hours.
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Summary: Too long-winded!
Review: I know just about every Tom Clancy novel has turned into some blockbuster movie, and I can understand why. All of his books are really pretty good overall, but they are too long-winded in one area: descriptions of airplanes, trains, submarines, etc. I get kind of lost when he goes into describing what some piece of equipment looks like from the inside out.However, this book was really good if for nothing else than the spy thrilling part of it. I'm a spy-thriller lovin' kind of gal. I didn't want to put the book down for fear the CARDINAL would get killed. I would not recommend this book for someone who does not like descriptive talk on transportation vehicles, but if you like a good spy story, this is the one to buy.
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Summary: One of Clancy's Best
Review: I believe this book was one of Clancy's best. I'd say it's my second favorite after "Without Remorse"
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Summary: An Excellent Story - True Clancy Brilliance!
Review: When I first read the summary of this book many years ago and was considering reading it, I wasn't sure if this would interest me as much as Clancy's other books had such as 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'Patriot Games'. From the first few chapters this book had my interest! It carries with it a brilliant plot that unfolds as you go involving the world of cold war espionage. A Russian patriot never suspected by his fellow comrades is one of the CIA's oldest informers, and also their most ellusive, even to them! It is a wonderful story filled with intrique that will keep you reading to the end. I really enjoyed this one.
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Summary: Near The Top
Review: With CotK, Tom Clancy hit a new level of his writing. While CotK is more in the "technothriller" vein that Clancy seemed to start (and has now eschewed), it is still an excellent novel for those unfamiliar with the technical issues at hand. The treatment of the major protagonist, Mikhail Filitov, is above average for Clancy; we see a broken man looking on his past to strengthen him for the present, for at his age, the future means very little. Jack Ryan is, of course, a major player, but he is still in the more enjoyable (and fallible) phase of his character's career. This book isn't the best by Clancy in my opinion -- _Without Remorse_ holds claim to that title -- but CotK is pretty high up there. It's a worthy read if you're new to Clancy and want some backfill on the story.
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Summary: Clancy's best fictional work
Review: This novel represents the best of what Tom Clancy has to offer: exciting, fairly clever plot filled with intrigue and suspense. As with others of Clancy's early books, he leaves out female characters (which he is completely inept at portraying in any event) and does a good job of getting us to root for Jack Ryan at the turn of every page. Very readable.
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Summary: A little slow but good international intrigue
Review: This book moves a little slowly, but the international intrigue and the political manuevering are fascinating. Clancy does have a major problem that does show up in this book. He tries to slip in characters from previous books into each book and ends up with contrived and pointless subplots. The whole subplot with the Russian captain from the Hunt for Red October is needless and boring.
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Summary: A Little Different for Clancy
Review: I love Clancy's work, but this one was a little different for me. I had to read it three times to fully appreciate it. It doesn't have all the action of his first three novels, but it still makes you think. It still has action, but you have to wait until the end. Still a very good book!
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