 |
 |
Sign in/joinLanguage: English [ others ]
Over forty million books on members' bookshelves.
|
Loading... Clear and Present Dangerby Tom Clancy
LibraryThing recommendationsMember recommendationsLoading...
won't like
will probably not like
will probably like
will like
will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. kswolff | Mar 12, 2009 |  1   Typical Clancy military technothriller, this time battling South American drug lords. (  )santhony | Oct 2, 2008 | I'll do the same review for all Clancy's novels because they're all pretty much the same. Very long, very detailed, and after a while, very repetitive. If you stop after just a few of his books you'd probably give them 4 or 5 stars, but beyond that they start to grate. Especially where Jack Ryan is involved. I mean, Clancy spends hundreds of pages getting his details just right, the settings perfect etc., then he has Ryan dodging more bullets than James Bond! I finally threw my hands up and surrendered when Ryan becomes President. I can't remember what piece of crap that was in. I've given three stars as a compromise between my reactions when reading my first Clancy (brilliant) and last Clancy (doorstop). (  )ianw | Sep 15, 2008 | The second best Clancy book (  )tmstimbert | Jul 26, 2008 | Much more detail than the movie (of course). I particularly liked the description of the jungle battles and sneaking around. Very good, believable political / action novel. (  )Palunboy | Jun 26, 2008 | 0.063 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com (ISBN 0425122123, Paperback)At the end of the prologue to Clear and Present Danger, Clancy writes, "And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning--and, once decided, best unseen." In Clear and Present Danger nothing is as clear as it may seem.The president, unsatisfied with the success of his "war on drugs," decides that he wants some immediate success. But after John Clark's covert strike team is deployed to Colombia for Operation Showboat, the drug lords strike back taking several civilian casualties. The chief executive's polls plummet. He orders Ritter to terminate their unofficial plan and leave no traces. Jack Ryan, who has just been named CIA deputy director of intelligence is enraged when he discovers that has been left out of the loop of Colombian operations. Several of America's most highly trained soldiers are stranded in an unfinished mission that, according to all records, never existed. Ryan decides to get the men out. Ultimately, Clear and Present Danger is about good conscience, law, and politics, with Jack Ryan and CIA agent John Clark as its dual heroes. Ryan relentlessly pursues what he knows is right and legal, even if it means confronting the president of the United States. Clark is the perfect soldier, but a man who finally holds his men higher than the orders of any careless commander. Along with the usual, stunning array of military hardware and the latest techno-gadgets, Clear and Present Danger further develops the relationships and characters that Clancy fans have grown to love. Admiral James Greer passes the CIA torch to his pupil, Ryan. Mr. Clark and Chavez meet for the first time. Other recurring characters like Robert Ritter and "the President" add continuity to Clancy's believable, alternate reality. This is Clancy at his best. --Patrick O'Kelley (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
Abebooks |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In a nutshell: All the technology and machinery and weapons get highly detailed three-dimensional characterizations. All the humans are treated like cardboard cut-outs, either in sub-Tolkienish moral simplification (evil drug lords vs. heroic American gun-owning patriots) or Ayn Rand-in-miniature political soap-boxing (meaning all liberals are cowardly, back-stabbing effeminate wuss-buckets and all conservatives are all smart, be-muscled, flag-waving uber-patriots).
That being said, it is a well-written techno-thriller with its share of action, heroism, and stuff blowing up. (