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Summary: Readable, but up to Clancy's old caliber?
Review: This book isn't a horrible book, but not what people have come to expect from Clancy. First, the complaints. This book's biggest weakness is it's bad habit of jumping around, and jamming characters in for the entirity of three pages. Obviously, those characters aren't given much opportunity for development, and even some of the major characters seem to be either flat or generic. Also, the plotline,while serviceable, has been done before, and better, and there are many mediocre subplots. On to the good point. This book has some very exciting moments, especially during the (Potential spoiler)terrorist attack on New York. The rest of the book, however, tends to be dog slow. All in all, it's an OK book, but not on par with previous Clancy efforts.
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Summary: Good Book, But Lots of Irrelavent Information
Review: I though this was a very good book about termoil and terrorisim. However, there was a lot of stuff in their just used as fillers.
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Summary: If you like plitics this is the book for you
Review: Takes Clear and present danger, Ruthless.com, and Exective orders and surpasses them all. One book you should not put down. Brings the action af the inside world to the outside world. Excellent book. Go get it now, while it is still on the book shelfs.
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Summary: Promising start but withers quickly
Review: This was a major misfire from TC. Is this the alter ego of Clancy? It reminds me of Spielberg:the good Spielberg who makes Schindler's List, ET, and Saving Private Ryan; and the bad Spielberg who makes The Temple of Doom and The Lost World. This book takes a long time to move along-unless 100 pages is acceptable to you-and only sparked my interest due to the New Years bombing. This isn't as bad as the newer Rainbow Six( which bites a lot). I just miss the old Clancy:the one who gave us Red October, Patriot Games, Red Storm Rising, Clear and Present Danger, etc. Come on Tom; no more power plays to make a quick buck are gonna work here.
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Summary: His best co- writen book by a long shot.
Review: This book kept me reading, but had its boring spots. Good book but don't read the next powerplays.
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Summary: My first Tom Clancy's book that got me interested in him.
Review: My first book of my little collection that contain Rainbow Six, Ruthless, Patriot game, The hunt for Red October and few mores. But Politika came with the game that I bought 2 years ago, I didn't heard of him back there, (I'm still very young, 21). Anyway the game turn out to be o.k. but the book was just great. It was a good deal only because of the book. A great one by the way, maybe not as good as some hit of Clancy's but still one of my favorite, good story line with a scary resemblance to reality. So that book deserve a five star for me. So does Rainbow Six so far(not over yet).
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Summary: DO you like Tom Clancy? Read this exciting thriller!!!!!!!!!
Review: Politika is a book that has an intriguing plot, with different exciting events woven into it. Tom Clancy, in this book, braves waters no author has journeyed into before, adding in terrorists, Mafia intrigues, and even the DEATH of Boris Yeltsin, leaving Russian factions battling for control of the world power, and leaving one important government businessman in the middle of the whole thing. Roger Gordian, is the man behind Government and military technology. His corporation is attacked by Terrorists and Mafia Russian factions. At the head of this secret war, is a Russian Gangster known only as Penchanko , who has employed a world class assassin known as Gregor . Roger Gordian must strike back using a covert team called SWORD, and is forced to watch the new millennium turn into a terrorist attack as Times Square on January 1st, 2000 is turned into sulking ruin...
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Summary: This is not political fiction, it's political fantasy.
Review: Super-vigilante Roger Gordian's private army sweeps the world fighting the forces of evil. National frontiers are not a limit for the millionaire's quest. But when his henchmen save a defenseless, unprotected Russian President from a terrorist group, in his own country, this proves to be just too hard to believe. This is the end of Mr. Clancy's cycle as a writer. At least, for this humorless reader.
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Summary: One-dimensional attempt at marketing a CD-game
Review: I guess I should have been warned when the title says "Tom Clancy's" instead of Tom Clancy. Apparently the software designers for his game got together over a weekend and churned out a book for the marketing department. The characters are 1-dimensional, research is bad-Nikita is GUY'S name in Russian, and we never really find out just why a MNC needs its own worldwide deployable SF team. The only redeeming feature is the work on non-lethal weaponry (and the only reason I gave this book 1-star)-these will become a major part of the arsenal of any special operations force in the next decade. Oh yeah, the game's not that great anyway. It's basically Avalon Hill's Diplomacy Russified. Diplomacy's better.
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Summary: Dont waste your time
Review: Compared to the story plot of Clancys other books as hunt for red october and clear and present danger this one is pathetic.This book was written with money in mind and nothing else. Dont read it.
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