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Summary: ANOTHER CLANCY MASTERPIECE
Review: Another of the great books in the Jack Ryan series The Sum of All Fears is about a nuclear bomb going off in the United States-something that has never happened before. This book, like all of his others posses several tightly woven plotlines. The best to me was John Clark, marriage counselor. The thing I found especially interesting was that Clancy finally showed a chink in the boy scout armor of Jack Ryan (he was really getting on my nerves). After reading this I can't wait to tackle Debt of Honor.
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Summary: Stunning!
Review: I have read all Jack Ryan books except debt of honor and this is among the best to me. The story is convincing and the description of the character like Liz Elliot and Bob Rowler is perfect. He shows his knowledge on military field again by predicting the reaction caused by a nuclear detonation. The book is exciting overall but brought into a climax after 700 pages which is the most suitable place. The story developes into a state of total confrontation between each characters which is absolutely incredible. By the way, I like Tom's way of bringing up new characters for future use. He has done this to Clark and Ding and now to Durling and Daryaei. I must say this is an uncomparable effort.
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Summary: Unbelievable !!!!!
Review: Clancy at his best ! Theres a particular chapter (Three Shakes) where he takes us step by step on the detonation process of a nuclear device. That's unbelievable... The imagination of Tom Clancy has no rival. I recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: So, when's the movie?
Review: All I have to say is this: It took me only 4 days to read this 900+ page book. The story is so intense that you will never see the world from the same perspective again. Clancy literally forces you to understand every detail of what you're experiencing. It's frightening what he is capable of creating.
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Summary: Tom Clancy's best work
Review: I've read all of Tom Clancy's books (up till Executive Orders), and this is the best one (with Red Storm Rising a close second). The way he showed the tense situation unfolding was vey enjoyable, and I couldn't keep the book down. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: The best of Clancy
Review: The reason this book is my favorite Clancy novel is that Jack Ryan's entire life begins to unravel around him. He is not being shot at, but because of his personal problems, you feel as though he is in the most trouble yet. Very intense.
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Summary: Clancy's best!
Review: Could it be possible? Could a group of terrorists take our civilization to the edge of disaster? Jack Ryan seems to be the only man who can avoid a nuclear war!
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Summary: It was very suspenseful, thoroughly enoyable and believable.
Review: You would definately have to read this 900+ page book in order to really understand how I feel. Personally, there was a lot learned from this and I hope everyone that enjoys these types of novels will have the opportunity to read this book.
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Summary: Don't pick it up if you don't plan to finish it
Review: The Sum of All Fears could be considered a technical masterpiece...From wire to wire, it is a tight, precise thriller that manages to press all the right buttons. Never mind that it's over 900 pages...If you start reading and don't finish, you'll have done yourself a great injustice...Clancy only does one thing wrong here...He put San Diego and Minnesota in the Super Bowl...Don't get me wrong, if there's an event that begs for terrorist attention, it IS the Super Bowl (see Black Sunday, by Thomas Harris)...But it would be nice if the Cowboys had been wiped out in the fireball...
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Summary: Pretty good
Review: The best thing about this book is the interweaving plot lines. You never know when one of them is going to come to fruition. Any other writer would be happy to simply say 'they hit something', but Clancy actually tells us how what they hit came to be there. I liked the way he switched between the day to day lives of the American characters and the bomb-building of the terrorists. It really brings home to you just how much could be going on that we don't know about. The characters, too, are convincing an real. Several times I wished I could step into the book and throttle Liz Elliot - and I even felt pangs of sympathy when some of the villains were killed - that's how good the characters were. I would most definitely recommend this book as a second Clancy - after Red October.
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