Clancy is back. I must admit when he first did a Jack Ryan JR novel I felt like it was not worthy of Tom Clancy's pedigree.It seemed to have a rushed ending and a stopping point that was not like him but more like what you would expect from one of the Lord of the rings movies, come back next year...
Oh boy, although I like the stories about Junior, this one was a letdown. There are always a lot of characters in Tom Clancy novels, but this was ridiculous. Some of them are known by more than one name, so you never know if the person they're talking about now is the same as in the last chapte...
Thought I needed to have a dose of Tom Clancy. Really didn't like this....everyone involved in all the operations are killed...except for the hero...former navy seal and one undercover spy who is sleeping with the Head of the Drug Cartel's son....so I'm sure she will be the hero's love interest ...
In this next book by Tom Clancy, he departs on a tangent from the Jack Ryan saga to follow John Clark, as he did earlier in his book Without Remorse. As part of the new post–Cold War world, terrorism is rising to be a major area of threat, as evidenced from Clancy's two earlier books, and also fr...
Alright, another huge anthology by Larry Niven, so there is bound to be some "old friends" from other collections and anthologies. This will be another review-in-progress, so expect short reviews as I read the shortstories and excerpts (yeah, this anthology has short bits from a few of his novels...
HE OPERATES OUTSIDE OF EVERY LAW ... AND KILLS IN THE LINE OF DUTY.Few know he exists. But when millions of American lives are at stake, Third Echelon special operative Sam Fisher is the man to depend on. He handles covert missions either too sensitive or too risky for even the CIA or FBI. And he...
WHEN IT COMES TO AMERICAN FREEDOM, ONE MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW. He is quiet, invisible, deadly --- and the newest weapon on the front lines of a technologically advanced war. As part of a top-secret initiative called Third Echelon, National Security Agency special operative Sam Fisher has been give...
This is one of the coolest book I ever read. I kind of bit disappointed when I find out that it's not Tom Clancy who write this book, but some fellow writer named Raymond Benson a.k.a David Michaels. Reading the book, I immediately hooked by the easy-flow narration and perhaps also because I love...
I first heard of Tom Clancy in 1990, when a coworker told me about this author who'd become the darling of military specialists (sonar guys on submarines, for example) because his books displayed an in-depth understanding of their work.So I read The Hunt for Red October, which was fairly satisfyi...
So bad yet so good...Tom Clancy has long been a hit and miss author for me. I should say that a lot of it has to do with his incredibly detailed and dense descriptions of everything military. He earns a lot of kudos for his intense knowledge of his subject matter and his ability to base his ficti...
I remember being intrigued by nothing more than the name - "Tom Clancy" - as far back as my earlier years of High School (I guess it was because I associated his name with such videogames as Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six). I picked up one of his books once and read a few pages ... before decidin...
SUBJECTIVE READER REVIEW FOLLOWS:I've become a Clancy fan, and Debt of Honor--in its totality--may be one of the best novels ever written. I will quickly caveat that statement by saying that Clancy is one of the most prolific writers in history, as I had to ready 500 pages to get to the point whe...
Estimados lectores, debo reconocer que Tom Clancy [TC] me encanta. El autor de La caza del Octubre Rojo me parece uno de los escritores más verosímiles que existen. Vale que está hiperespecializado en escribir sobre Defensa Nacional, en cualquiera de sus sabores, desde los marines al FBI, pero es...
Reading this was entirely an exercise in reading something that lies way outside my comfort zone. Why is it outside my comfort zone? Well, it's not aimed at me for a start; I'm a woman, and I'm not American. I knew what I was taking on; it's a thriller, by a mega-bestselling author who special...
Fairly dry. I don't know what I was expecting exactly, but it did provide good insight into how a carrier group functions, at least 10 years ago. There is of course the typical Clancy Rah-Rah military tone as well as continual reminders that we don't fund the military enough, which I find laugh...
In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBP the Net Force.When web service is disrupted across the world, a new nation makes its presence known. Terror...
“The Bear and the Dragon” is 1137 pages long. It could have been less than 600 if Clancy had left out the political propaganda. The book’s focus is anti-China rhetoric. President Jack Ryan’s trusted SecTreas calls them “little slant-eyed fucks” and “Chink bastards”. SecState uses “our little y...
Seperti Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing,Airborne merupakan salah satu buku di dalam siri Tom Clancy: A Guided Tour (buku kelima). Pada buku kali ini,Tom Clancy menghidangkan kepada para pembaca bagaimana sebuah unit tentera unik,kumpulan tentera yang dipanggil Airborne a...
Writer’s style is not engaging or entertaining for me. He’s probably good for military technical buffs.This guy is a popular best selling author. But not for me. I assume his fans are those who love to think and talk about military technical stuff - with a story to go along with it. The autho...
I really do get disappointed by the commercialism of the 'Tom Clancy' authors these days. While it is undoubtedly a legitimate technique to utilize the worlds and characters created by other authors, this particular work will never be anything like a Clancy at its best.As these series develop the...
Politicians can be scary; they get an overdeveloped sense of self importance and they wield a lot of power. This thriller is a prime example of what could happen if a conspiracy with enough political clout attempts a takeover of the United States government.Op-Center’s function is crisis managem...
Entre l'Inde et le Pakistan, 700 kilomètres d'une frontière sous très haute tension : la " ligne de contrôle ". Ici, une étincelle peut déclencher une guerre. Au moment où les Attaquants, l'unité spéciale de l'Op-Center, lancent sur place une mission secrète de reconnaissance, un attentat est com...
Dear page dwellers: Generally speaking, although I read many works, I rarely review the well-known authors, and I especially don't review older works. It just so happens, though, that I revisited one of Tom Clancy's better known books recently, on my off time, and I was reopened to the military f...
I am reviewing the novel Tom Clancy's Net Force Night Moves which is a very good book which I bought from kindle. This story I think is science fiction and is set in the near future but that is 2010 but this is quite an old book. The plot revolves around a world that is reliant on super computers...
The book starts with three events: a freighter of Chinese illegals being destroyed off the coast of America, A South African sugar mill blowing up, and the bombing of a "gentleman's club" in Taipei, China. Paul Hood, Op Center's boss, is canned quickly one morning by the president, and given an u...
Somehow, people like this book. Other people complain about the slow plot, or the level of detail, or the lack of action. I was perfectly fine with all of this, and in fact, I quite liked the idea that injuries were taken seriously and meant that people were out of action for a long time. The thi...
Tom Clancy has started this series - Net Force - but it has deteriorated into a series of incoherent books that do not show anything similar to what Mr. Clancy offered in the golden era of his career. I believe most books after the initial one were written by others. This one is about a lot of se...
SUBJECTIVE REVIEW FOLLOWS:This was a long and entertaining book, but not one of Clancy's nail biters. The storyline, of the two superpowers having at each other without resorting to nukes is almost borderline hard to believe due to the heavy casualties both sides are imposing on each other. The g...
Tom Clancy is a highly respected author. Just putting his name on a book sells about a million copies. For the life of me I can’t see why. In fact, I’m beginning to question all the super popular books. Dan Brown turned out to be basically terrible. Clive Cussler leans so heavily on the worst sex...
The Cardinal of the KremlintThe Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy recounts a fictional story of political intrigue and espionage between the United States of America and the United Soviet Socialist Republic (U.S.S.R.) during the Cold War era. The book is 547 pages long, and was published by G...
4 of 5 stars for the book Net Force #8: Changing of the Guard by Tom Clancy (Audio edition). Let's start with the fact that I am a big fan of Tom Clancy and a fan of the Net Force series. I have been reading the series in sequence as there are continuing characters and sub-story-lines. The main f...
Part of the youth culture out here, where you might be over the hill at twenty-five. "MJ. So tell me about this beach picture." "Oh, it was a terrible shoot! First thing was, Todd--that's Todd Atchinson, the director?--was having a major crisis and he ran out of Paxil and was a bear to work with....
Ryan said to his Secretary of the Treasury, George Winston.“Mr. Pres—”“Goddammit, George!” The President nearly spilled his coffee with the outburst.“Okay.” SecTreas nodded submission. “It’s hard to make the adjustment ... Jack.” Ryan was getting tired of the Presidential trappings, and his rule ...
Seronga watched helplessly as Bishop Max died. The clergyman’s head jerked back, even as his body was propelled forward. The first thing that died were his eyes. Seronga could see the light go out of them. A moment later, the bishop fell face down on the tile floor. Blood ...
The first thing Herbert did as he entered the long, marble-rich foyer was to look for security devices. There were motion detectors in the corners and a keypad beside the door. Obviously, they were not on now. There were no cameras here, only outside. That was good. If he were left alone, chances...
Carruth couldn’t put his finger on it, but it felt . . . off, somehow. He had the information Lewis had given him, codes, orders, specific and detailed directions, same as always. The gate-check had gone smooth as silk. The sun was shining, felt almost like spring was in the air, getting close to...
After four miles they pulled into a town, this one a quarter the size of Söderhamn. “Forsbacka,” Brian read from the map. The Citroën pulled off the main road, then took a series of lefts and rights before pulling into the driveway of a mint-green saltbox house. Dominic passed the house, took a r...
Certainly this was justice, but that irritated Howard even more. "Leave him!" Howard yelled as he ran. "That bastard is mine!" Tyrone stepped in and delivered a solid kick to the fallen judge's ribs. It sounded like somebody dropping a watermelon, thoo-wock! Even as he drew near to the trio, Howa...
It had been a productive time. Seurat had stayed another day in D.C., then gone home, and Locke had stuck around and done research, a bit of social engineering, and had learned some disturbing information. None of which was nearly as disturbing as what was happening in his...
He planned on calling David to let him know that he had positively identified Ross, but the rain clouds had completely obscured the moon and taken every bit of the natural light Ethan planned on using to traverse the jungle. Instead, he found that the only way he could move was by keeping dangero...