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Summary: an accomplished voice performance
Review: Veteran voice performer J. Charles is not only one of the most accomplished audio book narrators working today, he's also one of the busiest. Both listeners and publishers seem to know that if Mr. Charles lends his narrative skills to a production it's going to be highly listenable. An example is his rendering of this techno-thriller by the unparalleled Tom Clancy.
Once again, Mr. Clancy tears his theme from today's headlines - our country's fight against drugs. As the story opens our commander In Chief isn't at all pleased with the progress being made in this battle. So, a formidable team is dispatched to Colombia to put an end to the struggle. It doesn't work as planned.
Drug lords, as is known, show no mercy and they retaliate by killing civilians. A beleaguered President gives orders to not only end the original plan but to erase it. It should look as if it never existed.
When Jack Ryan, now Deputy Director of for the CIA discovers that this aborted plan has been going on unbeknownst to him and some men have been stranded, Ryan decides to rescue them.
In true Clancy fashion it's Ryan to the rescue, but it's a heart stopping struggle.
- Gail Cooke
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Summary: I take some exception to the reviews....
Review: Well first off, I did not like the book nor the movie, both have enough plot holes to make a swiss cheese look like art. On the other hand, I take excption to some of the neagtive reviews listed here, as some sound very anti-american in their reviews. We being good Americans are intelligent enough to read good books and tell what stories make good patriotism and what does not. We do not have to justify this to anyone who lives outside of the American experience for that. If you do not understand this, TNEN BE QUIET ABOUT THINGS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
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Summary: Very Good well worth the time
Review: "Clear and Present Danger" is an awesome action packed novel that will not let you stop reading it for a minute. I did get the names mixed up occasionally but I get confused fairly easy. I made a profile sheet with each characters name and a profile a sentence or two long and immediately the problem went away. There is no reason why someone shouldn't read this book that is interested in a good action. If you don't read this book you will be wishing that you had.
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Summary: Another winner by Clancy
Review: At first I was wondering WHERE in the WORLD Clancy was going at the beginning of this fantastic read, but by the time you figure that out, he's got you going in a totally different direction with several new plot lines that make you wonder the same thing. Superb plotting and a hard-to-resist desire to teach those who are responsible for drugs in this country a lesson combine to make this one amazing read. Get ready for several hours of pure escapism, and by the time you are finished it'll make you a pure Clancy fan. Unlike many in the 'spy' genre who haven't been able to produce anything decent since the cold war ended (John LeCarre & Robert Ludlum) Tom Clancy apparently has something they lost: Vision and Imagination. This novel is an amazing example of just what vision and imagination can do for you. STILL one of my all-time favorite Clancy stories, and even though they made a valiant effort in turning it into a movie, it just isn't possible to adapt a Clancy novel into two hours. It's like trying to make the entire Old Testament into a made-for-TV movie...somehow you are gonna leave out something important. I just wish the Coast Guard had the authority to do what they do in the beginning of this book to drug runners they capture...
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Summary: Don't Even Waste your time with this book!
Review: Clear And Present Danger is OK at points, but the rest of the novel is boring with the CIA work, the action between the Commandos don't feel realistic, the story drags on on for hundreds of pages, the boring details of how big a ship is, that is boring! If you want to read a REAL and exciting novel, read Bob Mayer's Eyes Of The Hammer. Bib Mayer is a former Special Forces officer, the action is there, and is VERY EXCITING unlike this book where you have to go through hundreds of pages to get to the action.
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Summary: Some problems...but good overall
Review: Clear And Present Danger starts out with the Coast Guard finding three top American officials killed on their yacht, and the men charged with the murder are from the Cali Drug Cartel in Columbia, so to get back at the Cali Cartel, the President then prepares a secret covert operation of selected Special Forces to bring back justice to the Cartel. Jack Ryan comes back into the picture, with Admiral James Greener dying of cancer, and now he is left in charge as DDI of the CIA, but Jack does not know about the covert operation in Columbia, since they dont want Jack to intervere in the operations. So comes in Domingo Chavez, a East L.A. Chicano who turn his life around by joining the U.S. Army and becoming a Ranger, and now he is the selected person to go to Columbia to fight the drug lords.
Now as they get ready to train for the operation, Jack has NO IDEA what is going on, but he knows that something is not right, and they are keeping quiet about the operation. As they arrive to Columbia, John Clark is running the operation and in charge of the whole thing. Jack and John Clark know each other from rescusing CARDINAL (a U.S. spy in the Kremlin) and bringing him to America where he lives in exile.
Now one of the Cali Cartel's men brings in a woman who works for the CIA and has top secret information about the operation, and finds out that one of the top men who is running the operation is going to Columbia, so his men sets up a ambush and attacks their convoy. Now, the operation gets more intense where they bomb the drug lord's house, and it makes it look like a car bomb. Now, as the Cali Drug Cartel finds out what is going on, they now are hunting them in the thick forests of Columbia thanks to the Columbian military which he has complete control of thanks to money. Jack Ryan then finds out what is going on, and now the covert operation is dead, and they are leaving the men in Columbia on their own. Jack then goes down to Columbia to rescue the men from the hidden dangers the Cali drug cartel has to offer. Now Jack rescues the men, and the President lost the election, and now President Fowler is in office, so now Jack has a new boss, along with a new enemy: Elizabeth Elliot; the National Security Advisor who hates Jack with a passion. The book starts out slow, but it is still worth a good read to get into.
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Summary: Great read
Review: I haven't read too much Tom Clancy up until this point, but this was the best of the ones I've read so far. I picked up Clear and Present Danger because the movie based on this novel is one of my favorites. Going in, I was expecting this to be similar to the movie, so I was pretty surprised to find that while some of the situations are the same, most of the action is quite different. The book is quite a bit more realistic, which of course means that the film is immensely more entertaining. My only real complaint about the story is that the beginning scene with Red Wegener and the Coast Guard goes on too long for its overall impact on the story. I did like reading some beefed-up rolls for both John Clark and Domingo Chavez, who are two of my favorite Clancy characters. If you've seen the movie and want to read something akin to the screenplay, this is the wrong place to look, but if you're looking for a more realistic, and more special forces-intensive version of that story, this is a great read.
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Summary: Tom Clancy does it again
Review: I'm a big Tom CLancy fan and i just loved every minute reading this book very well done. Very well written couldn't have been done better. Mr. Clancy always kept me on the edge and he is able to put in alot of great info and he knows soo much about alot of what he writes in his book
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Summary: Realistic Story
Review: This was one of the Clancy's finest works. The President tacitly authorizes an illegal war against Columbian drug lords in retaliation for the murders of prominent government officials. Jack Ryan, the newly appointed DDO of the CIA is kept out of the loop but figures out the misdeeds of the President's inept National Security Advisor and the CIA's DDI (deputy director of intelligence) and is determined to get to the bottom of matters. Very long story but I read it in just a few days.
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Summary: One of Clancy's Great Books
Review: Tom Clancy delivers in this poweful book, expertyly portraying America's war on drugs. After personal friends of the president are killed by drug runners, the president decides that the threat of drugs is a very clear and present danger. In order to deal with this problem, he decides to send over covert special operation teams fluent in Spanish, into Columbia to neautroulize the threat to the American people. Even though I thought the beginning was a little slow, the book picks up very fast. With interesting characters like Ding Chavez, Jonh Clark, and Jack Ryan the book is a very enjoyable read. This by far is one of my favorite books and I recomened this novel to any Clancy fan or anyone who enjoys a good suspensful book. Enjoy!
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