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Summary: Best-selling Author Strikes Again!!!
Review: Best selling author Tom Clancy's third book, Patriot Games, is an excellent action/drama story. Jack Ryan, the main character, is on vacation in London with his wife, Cathy, and his daughter, Sally. Jack is meeting his wife and daughter, at an outside restaurant when a bomb goes off. Jack sees the Royal Family's limousine being attacked by terrorists. Jack takes out the terrorists and saves the Royal Family from death, and becomes a hero to London.
There is action and suspense in Patriot Games, but you'll have to read the book to find out more.
This book is definably NOT for younger readers. With over 25 F-words and 14 Sh- words, intense violence, sex, and gore, Patriot Games for mature teenagers and adults. But all in all, the book has very good detail, plot, and it is very easy reading. There are 540 pages.
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Summary: Jack Ryan's First Adventure!
Review: International terrorism is the topic Clancy tackles in his novel, 'Patriot Games.' When history teacher and sometime CIA anylist Jack Ryan intervenes in an IRA hit on the Prince of Wales, he soon finds himself a political target. When his family is attacked in Baltimore Ryan again goes to work for the CIA in the hopes of stopping the terrorists. While the story is gripping and the action scenes fast-paced and exciting, the first two hundred pages of the book are for the most part slow. If you're a patient reader you should get through it okay. The ending is a climax in the great Clancy tradition and the characters, as always, are people you'd like to know. There is much more in the book than in the movie, but it's essentially the same story. On the whole it's a great first ride for Jack Ryan.
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Summary: A Very Good novel by Tom Clancy
Review: Patriot Games takes place years before The Hunt For Red October, and it involves a younger Jack Ryan, in Patriot Games, he is a history teacher at the Naval College in Maryland, but he took some vacation time in London, and he discovers terrorist trying to kill a passing motorcade, and Jack Ryan is right there witnessing it! So he brings into action, killing one of the terrorist, and getting shot himself, but he saved the people inside the car; it turns out it was the Prince of Wales with their newborn son!
Now Jack has made some friends, and some enemies; a right-wing Northern Ireland terrorist organization from the IRA. Now the main bad guy Sean Miller is taken into British custody, and he is tried before a English court with Jack Ryan already into knighthood by the Queen of England, and he testifies against Sean Miller. So Jack heads back home to Maryland and goes back to work as a History Teacher at the Naval War College living his normal life.
Jack has a couple of friends in the CIA business, but he wants to do what he loves to do; teach history. One of them happens to be Admiral James Greener, the main man in the CIA, and Captain Jackson, another friend of Jack's. But what Jack does not know, Sean is planning to get back at Jack by all means necessary, so when he is being transferred to another prison, and he escapes by his fellow right-wing terrorist's, and escapes.
Now Jack finds out what happens, and he goes on with his life, but when Sean Miller comes to America and tries to kill Cathy and his daughter Sally on the freeway, Jack then decides to join the CIA as a analyst, and once he gets in, he is drawn into the world of the CIA. What Jack does not know, he knows that Sean Miller is out there, and he knows where to find Jack, he wants Jack dead because he kille his younger brother at the beginning of the book. Then at a dinner party, Sean Miller and his goons go to Jack's house, and they try to kill everyone, but they fail, and they try to make a run for it, but Jack and them get them, and kill them for what they were trying to do.
The novel starts out boring, but it gets better and better once you reach the end, it is very exciting in the last 100 pages of the novel as the suspense builds up. Great book.
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Summary: Another Excellent Clancy Novel
Review: From Clancy's first novel, The Hunt for Red October, this novel takes us back in time to see pre-CIA Jack Ryan. Clancy does an excellent job with character development in this novel. Not only do we find out who Jack Ryan is, but we learn why he is. We see the young Ryan develop both mentally and emotionally from a history teacher at the Naval Academy to an analyst at the CIA. Also, the irony and juxtaposition in characters add a great deal to the novel. The irony of how the IRA functions and raises money is extremely interesting. Not only do we see Jack Ryan, an Irish American, and his obvious counterpart from the Ulster Liberation Army (an extremist faction of the IRA), but we also see more subtle juxtapositions of Ryan to the Prince of Wales and even Ryan's best friend, Robby Jackson, an African American pilot, to a radical African American communist. I highly recommend this book, especially over the movie. Although the movie is a good watch, it cannot compare with the things that happen within the book. Hope this helps with your decision . . . .
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Summary: Good But Not Blown Away
Review: I thought this was mostly an entertaining effort.But once the story moved back to the US the story seemed to drag a bit. By the end it was starting to get a bit far fetched. Three or four stars and since it is Clancy four. But it was perhaps a bit too complicated to merit five. Sometimes less is better. Jack in Toronto
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Summary: Awesome
Review: This book is very exciting. It starts off in england when jack stops a terrosit from killing the prince. then it moves back to america and more terrosit acts are directed towards jack and eventually they get caught. very good page turner book.
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Summary: Beware -- This has nothing to do with Football
Review: Read this through twice. No mention of the Superbowl.
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Summary: Its Clancy! Need i say more?
Review: This was an exciting book. Had I had more free time, I would have been finished in two days. As busy as I was, I still managed to tear through the 500 pages in four. If you are a Clancy fan, you can expect Clancy's usual high-quality story. If you haven't read Tom Clancy before, don't be deterred by the know-nothings who have posted negative reviews. Clancy is famous for his research and attention to detail. His characters are well thought out and developed. My guess is that some are offended by the sudden sense of stupidity that washes over them when they are overwhelmed by Clancy's superior grasp of the technicalities of his work, as well as his solid reasoning. Clancy's work does have the tendancy to strongly offend people who think they know everything.
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Summary: One of the best Ryan-Clancy books
Review: While visiting London with his family, Jack Ryan heroically prevents an assassination attempt on the royal family by Irish extremists. The terrorists, however, take the setback personally and follow Jack home and attempt to strike a blow on American soil. After his wife and daughter are nearly killed, Jack is persuaded to join the CIA full-time and works to bring the terrorists to justice Tom Clancy-style. While the story drags at times, like when Jack is recuperating in the hospital and his family is doted upon by the Royals, the action is great and very exciting. Of all the Clancy books I've read this one seems to have the least number of plot lines to deal with, and as a result focuses more on characters and their motivations. As good as the book is, however, I think the movie may be just as good or better.
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Summary: Great Local Thriller ****SPOILER****
Review: This book is definitely one of the greatest modern works of fiction that I have read recently. Clancy does of superb job of making his books extremely true to life and full of facts. Clancy also makes the Marines out to be what they really are and that is the best military force in the world. Not that I'm biased. Thumbs Up Tom! I especially enjoyed this book because as a resident of Northern Virginia it is a very great story that hits close to home. Langley, Annapolis, and Quantico are all within an hour's drive. I live a mile outside the beltway myself. I extremely liked how the terrorists were picked up in the Dundalk Marine Terminal. My parents are natives of Dundalk and we drive by the Terminal all the time.
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