Debt of Honor

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Summary: Great Book
Review: This was an excellent novel. I had not read a TC book since Without Remorse, and this one blew me away! I'm glad I ordered Executive Orders to read next. He is a master!

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Summary: Cool Man
Review: It was one of the best books I have ever read. The F-22, B-2 and all the other weapones are cool. The end wasn't that good but I recommend this book highly.

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Summary: The Explosive Prelude!
Review: Tom Clancy's "Debt of Honor" is a masterpiece right from the start. It shows the trials and anger of threats and mistakes. The story goes like this: Jack Ryan becomes President Roger Durling's National Security Adviser, or NSA. Right from the start he does a better job than Liz Elliot in "The Sum of All Fears." He knows more about defense than Elliot did. President Durling has had a good time in the Oval Office so far, and his Vice President, Ed Kealty, has a very bad scandel that just recently went public. The Japanese take over the Marianas Islands and Guam. Then for the next 800 pages it's one big fiasco between the U.S. and Japan, India, and China. I strongly recomend this book to any Tom Clancy fan or someone who is just starting to read Tom Clancy.

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Summary: I loved every word in Debt of Honor.
Review: I've read all of Tom Clancy's books and loved all but one of them. In Debt of Honor I learned more about global economics than I ever learned in any college economics class I've taken, and I have taken several in an effort to thoroughly understand the big picture. Not only is he technically brilliant, but the humanity he shows in his writing astonishes me. Techno-author he may be, but he's also closely tuned in to the human condition; this is evident in his treatment of the relationship between Jack Ryan and his wife. Many times it's not only what he does say, but also what he doesn't. Tom is a warm and intelligent master writer, and I hope he never stops.

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Summary: Incredible Read - How Does Clancy Do It!
Review: It's hard to say that this was Clancy's best work because they are all so good. I will say that this book was harder to put down because, like so many others up to this point, I'm a raging Clancy Fan. I own both the hardcover and audio tape of this book. I love the audio. The suspence is non-stop and really brings to life the characters of this novel. The reader (his name escapes me) should receive an award of some kind. He gives the novel the justice it deserves. I hope he reads other Clacy novels in the future. One final note, I actually woke my wife up to tell her how the book ended. I was amazed.

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Summary: Substandard Clancy
Review: This book was the worst Clancy I have read. First of all, Ihave read all of the books in the "Jack Ryan" series, withthe exception of Executive Orders, and I liked them all (Without Remorse is on the border); however, I have to say that this book was actually bad. The beginning was interesting, which is why this book gets a "2" instead of a "1." However, from there it goes downhill fast. Usually, I do not have too much trouble with the technical parts, as all of my education is math and physics oriented, but I could always understand other people's complaints about the extreme technical aspects of Clancy's novels. However, now I can completely appreciate their complaints with this book. The delvings into the global economic system in this book became so tedious that most of the time I felt as though I was reading an economic text book. In fact, I was reading this book during my "dead days" prior to taking my Microeconomics final exam, and I honestly feel that I did better on that test as a result of taking so much time reading through the tedious economic text that was so prominent throughout this book. This is not something I look for in "escape" reading. After a while it became very long winded and tiring, and I was very thankful when I had finished. I think that Tom Clancy needs to stop with Jack Ryan, and write some more independent novels like Red Storm Rising, or just start a new series. It really seems as though he is running out of ideas.

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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: This is a true Clancy book! It was filled with action, suspense, and drama

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Summary: Couldn't get it outta my hands!
Review: I really loved this book. Living in Japan, I see some of the attitudes Mr. Clancy wrote of (though certainly *not* everywhere in modern Japan). But please, next time, use proper Japanese--"dozo" means "please, here you go," not "thanks!" (that's "domo"). Also, I would have enjoyed a bit more plot about Americans living and working in Japan. I just started the sequel--hope it's as good!

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Summary: one of the best i've read
Review: It kept me on the edge of my seat from the beginning all the way to the last page. This would make a great movie. But Harrison Ford has to play Jack Ryan and Chuck Norris has to play John Clark

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Summary: This book is BIG!
Review: This book is big in every sense. 766 pages hardcover, 990 paperback (there's more words per page in the hardcover) makes it intimidating at first, but don't let that stop you. If you like technilogical stuff, military things, plots-galore, and a good old shoot-shoot KA-BOOM kind of story, than Debt of Honor is my recomendation. Now don't worry, I am not going to give anything away, but I must say that I just finished the book 30 minutes ago and I am still mesmorised by the ending! But before the ending, there is a lot of stuff going on. In the first hundred pages, there seems to be a dozen different plots going on that have nothing to do with each other, but throughout the book they most surely come together in the most intriging ways. Much of the story takes place in Japan, and involves Japan, and judging from other reviews, I have seen that there is some animosity to the way Mr. Clancy portrays the Japanese. Wether it is the man on the street, or the man calling all the shots. As for the men calling the shots, it must be known that every country has jerks. And this is a story of some jerks with power on the Japanese side. When it comes to the man on the street, I see nothing wrong. I was an exchange student in Japan less than a year ago, and I like to think I learned a thing or two about the Japanese, especially when around a foreigner. And the few examples that are in this book about that were right on. I was grinning, and even once slaped my knee because a similar thing happened to me that happened to "Klerk" and "Chekov". But enough about that. As for the rest of the book, I must say that it is very grand. This is the first Clancy novel that I have read (unless you count an Op-center) And I think that the only problem that I had was that there was a lack of flow in many places. In that i had to stop, think, and/or re-read a sentance or to, and in other cases to go slowly. But mabey that is just that way I read, I have to know it all. It is a nice book, and if you like to read about the fore-mentioned topics, Debt of Honor is a good choice to make