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It's great. I read this book when I was really young and wanted to check it out again, great book and awesome price
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This novel is a very fitting end to the journey of Jack Ryan. While we hear a little about him in The Teeth of the Tiger, and he stars in Red Rabbit, this marks his final chronological appearance in the series. After the events of Executive Orders, the bar was set high, but Clancy delivers. This book feels much longer, and I found myself staying up late night after night to read it for for 28 days, and I read very fast. He could easily have spun this into two books, there was so much going on from beginning to end. I easily have 40 hours into this book, and I enjoyed every minute. I was especially pleased with his character development. Many characters have been carried over from the last novel, but many have also developed over several novels. Having recently read "The Cardinal of the Kremlin" (1989) it was pleasing to see characters much further along in their respective careers, here Clancy seems to be aware of the passing of time for characters in his world, even if they have not been in all of his novels. To see Sergey Golovko as Chairman of the KGB or General Bondarenko in charge of a whole army, where both were previously low level employees of their respective services was very well done. I have to say, I don't think this book would be very complete without the preceding books, but all of them are worth reading. It's hard to be objective about that after reading them all. Perhaps it might be a enjoyable book full of unimportant references you miss, but I feel the others are needed. I can't think of anything I dis-liked about this novel, except knowing at the end that there would be no more for me to read. That was pretty sad after reading the first 10 books back to back over the last 6+ months on a nightly basis. If you liked any of the Jack Ryan novels this is a must read. Tom Clancy is my favorite author, and this book has only reinforced that belief. You won't be disapointed.Read full review
Tom Clancy is and always has been a masterful writer. The bear and the dragon is quite timely in that China's aggression is clearly what's driving a lot of the drama in the world today!
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Clancy has really developed this character and I love what he has done with John Clark.
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This book was just terrible. It had too many subplots and one of them took up 100 pages to express his opinion on abortion, which had nothing to do with the story. He comes up with highly improbably scenarios, a Japanese technician allowed to work in the inner sanctum computers of the Chinese heirarchy, no Tom, some hatreds and predjudices never die and that is one of them. I doubt you ever were in China, and if you were, never left the confines of the hotel area. Your characters are bad, terrible dialogue and some of them as just right out of the funny pages. I cannot give a rating lower than poor, but I do know that I won't run out of paper to start my campfires anytime soon, this almost 1000 page waste of trees will find a use eventually.
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