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Summary: Eerie
Review: I bought this book 5 years ago and never got to finish it... until references were made after 9/11 about the ending of this book. I've read it again, and replace the protagonists, it seems to have been ripped from the headlines of late 2001. Did Clancy actually gave the terrorists the idea? I don't know.
He is truly an astute researcher and has a sharp analytical mind on the geo-political situation of the world that any far-fetched idea seems plausible. To prove it, before 9/11, such an ending will be dismissed as "too far-out", but not anymore. Debt Of Honor, I must say, is one of the better Clancy novels.
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Summary: One of the Best Clancy Books for me
Review: The story is amazingly believable, especially the way Clancy has experty laid out all the details of Yamata's plans and their executions to get revange on USA. The ending, which might easily be the best I have come across so far, is breathtaking and shocking at the same time. I can't wait to read the sequel. My advice is : Read it - I'm sure you'll love it.
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Summary: One of Clancy's best.....
Review: Debt of Honor, Tom Clancy's eighth novel (and seventh in the Jack Ryan series) brings the former CIA Deputy Director out of a brief retirement and back into government service. With the dust settling from the various crises depicted in The Sum of All Fears, Jack Ryan joins the two-year-old Durling Administration as a replacement for an inadequate National Security Adviser. Although he has been making money on Wall Street and thinking of becoming a teacher again, Ryan has missed serving his country and is restless and feeling unfulfilled. So when ex-President Robert Fowler's successor asks him to work in the West Wing to reinvigorate his floundering defense and foreign policy, the stalwart Ryan accepts what he thinks will be his last government post. Just in the nick of time, too. Across the Pacific Ocean, Japanese industrialist Raizo Yamata and a small but powerful group of business and military leaders is planning the unthinkable: a surprise attack against the American financial nerve center, coinciding with a conventional assault against the shrinking U.S. military presence in the Pacific. Even worse, Yamata and his confederates in and out of the Japanese government have secretly built a small but deadly stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Yamata is motivated by a debt of honor he believes he owes to his family, decimated in 1944 when American forces landed on the island of Saipan. He harbors great hatred for the "gaijin" who wrested the Mariana Islands from Japan and made his parents and siblings jump off "Banzai Cliff" rather than face the disgrace of being captured by the American Marines and soldiers. Now, at the zenith of his financial power, Yamata has assembled a group of like-minded industrialists, politicians, and even military officers to cripple the U.S. and reclaim Japan's rightful place as a true global power. Clancy masterfully tells a complex yet compelling story of an unexpected conflict between two technologically advanced nations, while explaining in detail the psychology of economics, the bizarre nature of diplomacy and its scripted niceties, the nature of wars of aggression (Ryan classifies such wars as "armed robbery writ large"), and the corrosive effect of the revenge motive on nations and individuals. As in most of the Ryan novels, new characters (Chet Nomura, Raizo Yamata, Zhang Han Sen and George Winston) are introduced even as readers catch up with familiar Clancy players (Robby Jackson, Ed and Mary Pat Foley, John Clark, and Domingo "Ding" Chavez). And even though the plot is complicated -- particularly when Clancy goes into details about economic theory -- the story moves briskly and inexorably to a literally explosive and shocking climax.
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Summary: Great if you can suspend your disbelief
Review: OK, so the whole Japan/US war thing is not very believable, but it is fiction after all. If you can get past that, then this is an engrossing book.
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Summary: Another great Clancy...
Review: Among other reasons, one thing that makes Tom Clancy stand out from most other authors is his ability to innovate. Plotlines that have rarely been explored before but are not only plausible but realistic. Due to mistreatment of the gas tanks in a popular Japanese car, a major safety defect causes a normal traffic accident to end the life of several Americans including one entire family. This starts a chain reaction that ultimately ends trade between the United States and Japan. The damage done to Japan's economy allows one businessman, Raizo Yamata to organize an attack on the United States' military and economy sparking an eventual war. In the middle of this mess, as you would have guessed, is the new National Security Advisor Jack Ryan. The action doesn't really get kickstarted until the fourth or fifth chapter and some of the middle chapters are chocked full of fluff. While this book could have probably been written in about 650 pages (rather than 990), the plot rings true and the cliffhanger ending will amaze you. Especially now...and remember that this book was written in 1997....pre-9/11. This book is very much worth your time, but only if you plan on reading the follow-up, Executive Orders, as soon as you finish the last page of Debt Of Honor. Buy them both at the same time because you will NOT want to wait!
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Summary: a successful return to the Jack Ryan saga
Review: Clancy gets back to business with Jack Ryan's meteoric rise to power in Debt of Honor. This one is a little different in how closely it sets up its successor of Executive Orders, so if you're picking and choosing from the Clancy books, read this one before Executive Orders if you're going to read them both. It's not one of Clancy's best and not as good as Executive Orders, but it's still a solid read. A little war in the Pacific, and even more going on for the worthy Dr. Ryan.
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Summary: Clancys Best book.
Review: When you are insurance and securities licensed like i am you can appreciate how the US is attacked here and how the US comes back. I have read this book at least three times plus listened to it several more while driving in my motorhome. Incredible. Executive Orders is a great sequel.
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Summary: A Comprehensive Political/Military/Economic Study...
Review: Debt of Honor is quite possibly the most thorough book ever hypothesizing a potential global conflict. Clancy refuses to leave any stone unturned, as every action (and reaction) is accounted for with economic/military/political justification. The book gains its strength from the plausability of the scenario proposed by Clancy. Conflicts generaly arise from very trivial incidents, as carefully outlined in the story. Ryan shows the plethora of skills necessary to properly coordinate a conflict with diplomacy. Excellent book.
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Summary: Debt of Honor
Review: Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy is a modern day story of warfare and foreign intrigue. The action in the novel revolves around an island off the coast of Sri Lanka and the United States. A wealthy Japanese businessman purchases an island off the coast of Sri Lanka and plans to use it to conduct unusual military practices with a foreign navy. These actions catch the eye of the president of the United States who calls upon a vacationing CIA agent, Jack Ryan, and two other CIA agents named Domingo Chavez and John Clark to investigate. From this point, the book embarks on an adventure filled with dirty dealings, naval warfare, and terrorist attacks.
I gave this book three stars for many reasons. As I began to sink my teeth into the story, I realized that there was information on the characters that I was lacking as a first time Tom Clancy reader. The author expected the reader to know the charactors' background information and to pick up where he had left off in a previous novel. My expectations were to see combat through the eyes of a combat soldier or spy, not through the eyes of a third party relaying the events. In that respect, A Debt of Honor was a disappointment. However, the novel did have a very well developed story line even though it lacked well-developed characters. If you like conspiracy plots with alot of dirt dealins this is for you. Overall this was an average book but with a solid plot that deserves three stars.
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Summary: Not too shabby...
Review: This book is a triumph from near to the beginning to the harrowing ending. Like many Clancy books in recent years, it is a slow start with a classic, semmingly "much-a-do-about-nothing," but any eader of Clancy will know that the majority of his subplots tie in together while a slim few are just there to let the reader know of an outside world.
I picked this book up after purchasing Executive Orders (though I did not read that book until after this one) so, from the summary from Executive Orders, I knew the ending, but not the reasons why.
This book is astounding in it's scenarios and and story-telling. It is nice to get away from a mainly-Russian storyline (Sum of All Fears looke dthat way until you hit the last few hundred pages). Clancy has finally tried to pull himself out of a pit that made him a "Cold Warrior."
As with the majority of Clancy's fiction, Jack Ryan is the man in charge of the novel, and he now takes the role of Presdient Durling's newly appointed National Security Advisor who figures everything out to save the day. It is the same old Ryan line, which is why I took a star from the rating.
My favorite character in this book, as with all others, is John Clark, the dark figure of the stories. He seems to always be lurking in the backround, doing one thing or another to save the country. Also with clark, Ding Chavez -- the quirky sidekick we have come to know and love since Clear and Present danger. Further tying Clark and Chavez together -- the budding relationship between Clark's daughter and his partner.
This book has everything for the Clancy fan, and more if you have read all of the books that came in the chronological order of the Jack Ryan/John Clark series. A must read, especially if you want to go further along with the series (because Executive Orders and the Bear and the Dragon, though both longwinded, will not make a great deal of sense as to why they are where they are without this book). I enjoyed it, especially the ending, and I hope Clancy returns to this form of writing, if not earlier (The Cardinal of the Kremlin was by far his best work).
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