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Summary: Ruthless.com
Review: Executive Roger Gordan is taking a stand against the exportation of cryptographic materials by refusing to sell his software outside the United States. Without warning, Gordan finds his company is being taken over, and someone attempts to murder him. Meanwhile an employee, who has unearthed too much, suddenly disappears, and the one person who has given him his information is nowhere to be found. ΒΆ _Ruthless.com_ begins with an exhilarating chapter, continues with a long, mundane section, but concludes with an exciting last half. Clancy constructs several simultaneous plots; however, this technique becomes slightly disconcerting at the climax. Overall, this is a good book well worth the read.
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Summary: A grand disapointment.........
Review: This book made me really lose faith in Mr. Clancy. I have read all of his fiction books because of his great ability to write engaging plots and conflicts with thecnology woven in, but Ruthless.com made me think that Mr. Greenberg wrote it and Clancy just slapped his name on it....it was TERRIBLE cmpared to his other books! I really wish Mr. Clancy took some time to check over this, cause the characters have alot of potential, but are so poorly exploited..... I hope next time Mr. Clancy takes some time check over his work.....
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Summary: One of the 10 worst books I have ever read...
Review: Tom Clancy has let his readers down! I'm not sure he opened the book before putting his name on it. I will difinitely think twice before I purchase another of Clancy's work.
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Summary: The worst "Clancy" book yet :-(
Review: Clancy and his publisher need to find another ghost writer for this "Power Plays" series. It was dull dull dull reading. Also, there were enough enough technical "bloopers" to further supress any suspension of disbelief. For example, why would the U.S. Navy keep their encryption keys at a commercial facility, especially one that is overseas? How does a Japanese-American pass herself off as the sister of a Chinese woman?There was some amusement, I suppose, in reading about the antagonist, who is a Harvard-dropout billionaire chairman of a monopolistic computer software firm, get his in the end.
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Summary: Not expected fr Mr. Clancy, book is ok Ch. 19 & 20 just bad
Review: What is disappointing to me, and I am a Clancy enthusiast, is the obvious lack of research that went into Chapters 19 & 20. The aviation related references were poorly written, highly unlikely, and outright innacurate. The flight of the Lear45, based at an airfield with a 3400' runway, from the west coast to Dulles from departure to landing was laughable and indicated to me that whatever research was conducted was less than cursory. Mr. Clancy's proofreaders did a very poor job before slapping his name on this work. I was embarrassed for him.
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Summary: this is a disappointment
Review: this book, it seems is not written for the reader audience, but was written so that Tom Clancy can have another way of promoting a book. This book, also has the classic Tom Clancy problem, that happens with his later books, that don't really have an ending. This book takes about 50-60 pages to end, when leading up to the climax took 350 pages
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Summary: A great read!
Review: I would heartily recommend this book to any reader of Tom Clancy and thrillers in general. Good as the first novel in the Power Plays series was, this sequel is better -- more character development, more action, a more subtle and complex plot. It seems to me that some of the negative customer reviews are from people who refuse to enjoy anything by Tom Clancy except the Jack Ryan books, and don't want to give these other excellent works a fair shake. Relax, people, Jack's not going away!
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Summary: Good, but not a classic
Review: One of those books you store away for a rainy day. Clancy does use great detail, but stuff that you don't need to understand the book. The story goes all over the place. I know Clancy's usual style of writing, and this is far from it. Good, but not a classic.
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Summary: Fast Pased
Review: The characters were very detailed. The story was fast pased. Several stories are occuring at the same time. I really enjoyed the book and have not read Politica, Yet.
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Summary: Clancy rides on laurels. A shame.
Review: This was a disappointing book to read. The quality just didn't live up to his other books. Wasn't even close. Certainly toward the end of the Jack Ryan series the level of detail was headed down and the preludes to the action was headed up but this book was almost all setup. And then the climax fizzled and fell flat. I truly loved the Ryan series. With luck the many bad reviews this book has gotten will cause Clancy to pay more attention to the quality of the works put out under his name. And who knows. Maybe a video game isn't the best place for a book concept to come from...
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