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Summary: Clancy before he found his form.
Review: Having now read about 80 percent of Tom Clancy's books, I can say that this one is the worst. His finest skills have to do with his intricate knowledge of a wide variety of technical, procedural and military matters. The parts of the book where these skills shine are very interesting, such as the satellite surveillance scene. But most of the pages are dominated by characters interacting with each other emotionally, and Clancy's simplistic understanding of human emotion quickly reveals the vacuous dullness of his characters. They are stuck in a situation where they are incapable of action, and ACTION is one of the things Clancy is the master of. So if you like to read about some boring, whiny people waiting around for a terrorist to attack them in the final pages, then you'll enjoy this book. Otherwise, read Clear and Present Danger instead.
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Summary: HORRIBLE, AWFUL, TERRIBLE! PURE MANURE!
Review: It was only in desperation that I bought this book in an airport boutique before a four hour flight. In the aeroplane I was faced with absolute boredom or Patriot Games, and I, much to my regret, chose the latter. I believe I have never before read such garbage. This novel, if it deserves that term, is a disgrace to the literate world. Mr. Clancy is utterly devoid of even the most miniscule talent for writing. His characters are annoyingly stuck-up stereotypes that could never pass for true, complex human personalities. The storyline is beyond belief and is a testament to American arrogance, where England and the British people as a whole are degraded and insulted. Mr. Clancy's obsession with utterly needless technical details could only stir the basest and unoriginal of minds. I have never suffered through a worse flight. Stay away from this if you are a sane, intelligent person. Don't insult yourself by reading utter manure spawned for the ignorant, gullible majority of Western consumers.
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Summary: Maybe TC's best-written book
Review: "Patriot Games" relies less on gee-whiz technology and huge plot than any of Clancy's other books. The characters in this one are deep and well-developed, and provide the population for most of Clancy's subsequent work. The plot is relatively small in scope (certainly by TC standards), but also well-developed and compelling. This is the book that cemented me as a huge Clancy fan. I enthusiastically recommend it.
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Summary: Awesome book, but spare me the right wing propaganda.
Review: I guess I shouldn't complain too much about Tom Clancy's books having a right wing bias. After all, there are plenty of other good authors out there who inject the opposite leanings into their works. Since I'm fashionably liberal myself, TC's political views tend to rub me the wrong way. Nevertheless, he still writes excellent thrillers, and Patriot Games is no exception. If you're new to Clancy's books, this is a good one to start with. One reason his stories are so good is that he always has things go wrong during tense situations. Someone's key piece of equipment fails or a communication is misunderstood, causing chaos. This brings a real-world flavor to his stories which make them quite believable. I thought this book had a good story and was exciting to the end. The development of Jack Ryan as a character is well done and continues throughout most of the other Clancy books.
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Summary: Too simplistic
Review: Somebody mentioned Polly and the Princess. I could not write a more damning indictment. Of course, the british acted with "fair play, old boy" in northern Ireland, and the irish people are all foaming at the mouth terrorists, because they can't actually be anything else.
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Summary: Clancy the unbeatable
Review: Once again Clancy delievers a bang up action thriller that is unbeatable by any other author. It is about a guy named John Ryan who thwarted a terrorist attack on England's Royal Family. He then has to come face to face with the realities of his heroism and suffers the consequences. His wife adn daughter are attacked by the ULA( Ulster liberation army) and he is having the Royal Family over for dinner! But all goes to hell when the dinner is interrupted by a group of uninvited guest, the ULA. Now John must fight to save not only his family, but once again the Royal Family! I couldn't turn the pages fast enough to keep up with this top notch action thriller! The action never stops!
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Summary: An excellent edition to the Clancy Collection
Review: A great book that I loved. Although a little slow at first it picks up into a nail bitting finish. Its all about a man named Jack Ryan who stops terrorists from assasinating the prince and princess along with their child. One of the terrorists named Sean is about to go to prison when his terrorist buddies rescue him. He takes it personnely that Jack screwed up the mission and sets out to kill him and his family.
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Summary: A NailBiter!
Review: Jack Ryan gets into a conflict with some of the most dangerous people in the world. Ryan plays a role in stifling an attack on Prince Charles. He then testifies against The IRA gunmen who were involved in the attack. This immediately makes him a target of the IRA leaders who were imprisoned. The fanatical IRA leader is broken out of prison. His first and foremost mission in life is to kill Ryan and his family. By being ruthless and evasive Ryan manages to evade several attempts on his life. Tom Clancy shows a good knowledge of the world of terrorism by his usage of the Bekka Valley in this story. The ending of this story is very exciting and proved to be a good way to end a good book. Buy and read this book. You will not be dissapointed.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This an awesome book.From the very begining Tom gives us a nice explosion of action.We are then at that point caught and swept into it.This book will build up and up until finaly it exploids into an awesome ending.I would hate to give it away so go get it and find out where the action really is.
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Summary: If you've only seen the movie, buy this book now!
Review: "Patriot Games" is another example of Tom Clancy's superb work. A taut thriller about vengeance and the terrorist mind, this is a page-turner that you'll have trouble putting down. If you've only seen the movie, you've missed out on the most colorful character in the story, Gunnery Sgt. Breckenridge of the Naval Academy Security Detachment. It is the Gunny whom Jack Ryan turns to when he first feels the need to sharpen his weapons skills to defend his family from the threat of the terrorists. He's easily the most interesting good guy in the book, and I STILL can't believe they completely cut him out for the movie! So buy this book, if only for the scenes with Gunny Breckenridge.
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