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Summary: What a waste of money!
Review: It is a pity that a respected author should stoop to putting his name in big letters on the front cover of a book that was very obvoiusly written (badly) by others. I was left with a real sense of having wasted my money.
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Summary: Icon II ?
Review: If you have not read this book, try Frederick Forsyth's Icon instead. He did a much better job with the same story line.
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Summary: Not the Best
Review: I bought this book hoping for another Tom Clancy thriller but was disapointed with what I read. The book has a corporation as the good guys (yeah like that could every happen) with their own weapons and equipment. It was not what I expected from an author as talented as Tom Clancy
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Summary: Intriguing Plot. Poor character development
Review: The first few chapters took some time to get into, but when the opening action plot begins it looks as to be a very promising read. But alas, character development is slow, and many 2nd string characters are barely utilized, and open ended plot threads are dealt with too quickly or not at all towards the end of the book. Too bad Clancy did not write this himself, had a lot of potential.
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Summary: Politica does not register
Review: I read Politica about 3 weeks ago and cannot remember what it was about. It is the type of book you get half way through and think ...why am I reading this book ...
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Summary: Please tell me that Tom Clancy did not actually write this.
Review: What a major disappointment and to think that this book is on the best seller list. Apparently people are buying this book on Clancy's reputation, just as I did. There is absolutely nothing to like here i.e. characters, plot. I will carefully check Clancy's next offering before buying.
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Summary: This is poor writing at it's best!
Review: If this was the first book I ever read by Tom Clancy then I probably would never read another one. What a let down. Tom Clancy what were you thinking of to allow your name to be associated with this book (and I use the word book very loosly)?
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Summary: Seems promising, but its cast is confusing and uninvolving
Review: I'm still confused about who wrote this: Tom Clancy? Martin Greenberg? Whoever did it, it seems less like a good, thick Clancy-style thriller and more like someone pretending to be Clancy, hoping to fool his readers. While the story isn't all that bad, and sometimes the writing actually gets you involved (I know the terrorist act that occurs midway through was enough to make me shiver at the concept), the main problem here is the characters. There is not a single character that I truly care about or can really distinguish from another character. To make it worse, Politika constantly adds new characters, which just adds to the confusion. I found myself constantly flipping back and forth, wondering who this most recent character was and why he was important, and why he was different from another character. There are also several characters introduced early on in the book and who reappear every hundred pages or so, but you have no idea what they're doing or why. While your usual Clancy novel generally has a huge cast, your usual Clancy novel also ties them together in a coherent way, and makes you actually care about them (even if you know they're going to die in two pages), and Politika fails on both of those counts.
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Summary: Where has Tom Clancy gone?
Review: He cetainly is not at his desk writing books. A chimp could write this. Come on Mr. Clancy, get back to the good stuff, like Red Storm Rising. Give Op-Center and Jack Ryan a rest.
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Summary: A clue for the disgusted . . .
Review: I've noticed a number of the reviews for this (and the Op Center books) question how could Clancy have possibly written such crap. Well, he didn't. If the cover says "Tom Clancy", then he wrote it. If it says, as Politika does, "Tom Clancy's", then he only created the concept, possibly gave the real writer an outline. That's all. The Op Center's are not written by TC, Politika was not written by TC. Don't waste your money on this "brand name" garbage, wait for the next *real* Clancy book.
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