Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan)
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (517 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1455832324 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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S. The sudden and surprising assassination of three American officials in Colombia.Many people in many places, moving off on missions they all mistakenly thought they understood.The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected finish lines were things that, once decided, were better left unseen. response."The issues raised are real ones, and a jump ahead of the headlines." —The New York Times"Rousing adventure.… A crackling good yarn." —The Washington Post. Tom Clancy's thriller is based on America's war on drugs…and the covert—and shocking—U
Other recurring characters like Robert Ritter and "the President" add continuity to Clancy's believable, alternate reality. Several of America's most highly trained soldiers are stranded in an unfinished mission that, according to all records, never existed. --Patrick O'Kelley. The president, unsatisfied with the success of his "war on drugs," decides that he wants some immediate success. 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 underst
A must-add to your Clancy audio library. There's a lot going on in this novel and I am glad that I was finally able to add it to my audio library collection. I have listened through it a few times already. I always seem to hear some detail that I didn't catch the first time. The characters are familiar from the earlier Clancy books, but they remain engaging and the author continu. PlainAcres said Better than the movie!. I had seen the movie so thought I would be bored by the book. Couldn't put it down. The plot holes in the movie are not in the book. Clancy spins a pretty good yarn Clancy is a fun read most of the time. He seems to know his subject matter quite well, but is sometimes too anxious to show his expertise. The result it a pretty good story, but much longer than it need be. The rush to bring too many stories into one gets tedious at times. It is an easy book to put down and come back to later.