Rating: 
Summary: Second best after Red October
Review: After reading so many bad reviews about Rabbit, I did not even want to buy it. Lucky I was to have it offered to me.
It is probably his second best after red October, with much more deep characters. For once, Ryan and family really live. And of course, we know that the Pope was not killed. But the twists and plots are superbs. The Fowleys are living persons too. It is as meeting long lost friends who tell you what happened to them over the past years!
Slow pace reading, interesting, found my old friends.
A must.
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Summary: His best effort in a while.......
Review: It is far from his best (HFR October), and even further from his worst (SOA Fears). Clancy seems better when he keeps to a story that stays far away from outlandish. This qualifies. It doesn't grab you like many of his efforts, but still has some qualities that make you very interested in how it plays out. It is always enjoyable to read TC doing what he does best, describe something very complicated so even I can understand.I love the idea of following our favorite group of regulars, but have them set back in the cold war days. This should serve as some kind of model for new novels. I would have given it 3 1/2 stars, but that isn't an option, so 4 stars it is.
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Summary: Shameless laughing stock
Review: This is the most disappointing work of any author I've read in years. Red Rabbit is an almost complete dedication to the shameless jingoistic bashing of everything Soviet, right down to the physical makeup of the Slavic man and woman. Not only is this work poorly researched (assassination attempt is incorrectly set in plot timing, assuming there's allusion to real-life incidents), it's thoroughly shallow in its depiction of character. Even Ryan, perhaps the least caustic character in the novel has uncharacteristically ugly words. The sign-language Idiots, Inc. spy team of Ed/Mary is completely ridiculous, but that's not wholly surprising as I've never been impressed with the covert worlds in Clancy's literature. There's really only one fiction spymaster - John le Carre. What happened, Mr. Clancy? Where's the wit, the drama and the maturity we saw in your other works, such as the Red October and Rainbow Six? I'm disappointed. And disgusted. What a waste of time, pen and paper.
Rating:
Summary: Red Rabbit
Review: Redundant, no imagination, the hook ending was not worth the painful read. Would not waste money on a used paper back for this yawner. We always win if we get one of their's to turn traitor. Got it! Maybe next time we can win through our own guile. What results from up front money.
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Summary: WAS IT CLANCY?
Review: I just finished reading this book and am still in shock. Normally, I am the Clancy's fan. If he wrote this book, how come he does not know anything about anything any longer. He used to be knowledgeable and informative. He used to know things. There is no knowledge in this book, just useless words. The "Rabbit" takes off to Hungary with the family and escapes. Are you nuts? If that was possible, a half of the Soviet Union would have escaped. The KGB officers were not allowed to travel overseas unless on buseness. Families of the KGB officers were held as hostages. It took months and not two days to get approvals to travel overseas. There were no travel agencies. There were no international ruble and no one was obligated to take rubles. Rubles were useless even in Socialist countries. One had to exchange currency in Russia prior to traveling and only one hundred rubles per person was allowed. The rest of it was the black market. I can go forever with the list of the wrong information in this book. Almost everything is wrong in this book. And, therefore, the whole plot does not work. It is very disappointing. I do not think Clancy wrote it. I do not think he even read it.
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Summary: In Tom's Defense
Review: I was surprised to read some of the decidedly negative reviews of this book. Though I do agree that this is not his best work by any means, I was truly absorbed by Red Rabbit from start to finish, and I am actually happy that for once Jack Ryan isn't portrayed as some kind of superhero. To me, this book reads more like a real life story than many in this genre. I really liked it. Maybe it isn't bound for Hollywood anytime soon, but this a believable tale from start to finish, even if Mr. Clancy has taken a couple of liberties with different dates of events. Anyway, it IS a work of fiction, remember. Enjoy!
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Summary: Reading a book is not about getting to the last page
Review: Tom Clancey has brought a number of fictional people to life in his books. Red Rabbit only goes back and fills in some gaps that have been alluded to in other books. What I like best about his writing is that the story is real and alive. It takes place like life one hour at a time. The only disappointment I have when reading one of his books is when I am nearing the end and know that in only a few pages my old 'friends' will be saying goodbye until I can find another book.
If others are like me they will enjoy all his books and find them exciting at times but always believeable and his fictional people are just as real as if reading a reallife biography.
In Red Rabbit there is the hope that there will be an unending stream of new books filling in other chapters in the lives of people readers have come to admire.
Rating: 
Summary: A Promising Start -- A Disappointing Finish
Review: I love Clancy's other books. I remember how captivated I was
on reading my first, "Red Storm Rising". With all the shifting
between characters and settings in "Red Rabbit", I thought I was
in for another exciting journey. Sadly, this was not the case. I remember enjoying Clancy's treatment of John Clark's early
days and was hopeful to get similar stuff on Ed and MP Foley.
It was not to be... This book could've been really great. Instead, it feels like
Clancy just decided to stop writing after page 545.
Rating:
Summary: What a Shame!
Review: I started reading Tom Clancy after seeing my Idol Ben Affleck in the movie Sum of All fears. When I read the adaptation for that book I was not pleased the character based on the film is nothing like the book. They should of kept with the premise and character of the movie and not changed it. Well thats the least of the problems. I started to read this book and have found that it was a prequel to all of Jacks adventures. What I can't figure out is how he could have done any of this. His character in Sum is thirty, back track through the other stories and he would have to be 12, my age, it makes no sense. ...
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Summary: Its the Buda Hills and the Pest Plains
Review: Not the fastest moving of Tom's books. I probably enjoyed it more than most folks because some of it took place in Budapest where I'm researching a novel and the spy stayed where we stayed, but when describing Budapest in the book, he got it backwards! It is the Buda Hills and the Pest Plains! They are very different. I hope not too many Hungarians read that! I also believe that he does, as many other novelists do, and that is writing very thick books because it is expected both by the publisher and the public.
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