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Summary: Not a bad book, just a looooong one.
Review: Tom Clancy has been on my 'got-to-read-this-writer-someday' list for years now. Without Remorse had been the book I had chosen as 'most likely to read' for some reason or another, probably because that was the one that had come out when I decided to finally get around to reading him someday, but the relevance to the events of 9/11/2001 made me set aside Without Remorse as an introduction to Clancy and start with Debt of Honor instead. I'm glad I did.Debt of Honor is a HUGE book packed with tightly woven and extremely detailed plots that could, in a lesser hand, have choked the book to inertia, there is such a thing as too much information Tom. Certainly the methodical and microscopic detailed set-up may turn some people off, it almost did me in, which is why I give the novel three stars instead of four. But the pay off in watching the US economy meltdown and the subsequent battle scenes, both on the field and in the boardroom, as well as the sex scandal revolving around the Vice-Presiden, are well worth wading through all the plausibility building info Clancy throws at us. Fans of this sort of thing will have probably read this already, but I recommend it to those with a ghoulish curiosity about the ending. If one good thing has come from reading this supersized mega-thriller it's that Executive Orders has now been added to my Clancy Reading List.
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Summary: Too prophetic and too scary!
Review: When I saw the World Trade Center impacted by a commercial jetliner, all I could think about was that the perpetrators used this book as a model! I hope this is not the case!
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Summary: Another worthy Jack Ryan outing
Review: Tom Clancy has breathed fresh life into a series which could easily have gone stale a few books ago. His unique writing style of detailing several plots at once, takes some getting used to, but is well worth the effort. Most importantly, his ability to take seemingly unworkable plotlines and make them believable is what creates the extraordinary suspense in the Jack Ryan series. This time around, Ryan faces a different type of threat. A wealthy industrialist bent on regaining the perceived "loss of honor" experienced by the empire of Japan, resorts to military and economic attacks to bring the United States to its' knees. Very suspenseful and fast moving, despite it's size. A must read for Tom Clancy fans.
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Summary: Reality of Clancy's Work Hits Home after WTC/DC Attacks
Review: Using airplanes as weapons of destruction isn't new. There have been many such uses in history. Japan's suicide attacks on U.S. warships was the first such use. This past week, we saw another use. Clancy, in this book, uses a commercial plane flown by a citizen of Japan to attack Washington in response to what the flyer, former pilot in WW-II saw as his duty. I am not saying that Clancy gave the terrorists any ideas; however, it is fiction becoming fact once again. Clancy keeps doing this; one day, he is going to announce he has physic powers ... and I, for one, will believe him.
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Summary: Clancy sees the future...
Review: In light of the events of September 11, 2001, I suspect that Tom Clancy has a crystal ball hidden somewhere. In addition, beside being a great suspense novel, Clancy has an excellent grasp of the workings of the financial markets. He has thoroughly researched his subject and it shows in the quality of his writing.
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Summary: Clancy does it again!!!!!!!
Review: This book is unbelieveable. Clancy has outdone himself yet again. I could not put this book down. It had everything, suspense, action, drama, and the most spectacular ending I have ever seen in my life. Definitely a read and a keep...
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Summary: Tom Clancy foresaw this tradegy
Review: His plausable story has been real situation. I heard He already warned the weak defence system of US core area such as white house, pentagon and so on.
... I express my deepest condolence to all victims.
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Summary: They Said It Couldn't Happen
Review: Clancy has been writing the life history of Jack Ryan for many years. With each new book in the series, new aspects of Ryan are displayed, from his own internal doubts about the moral correctness of some of his actions to a dazzling display of competence in each endeavor that he attempts. Here we find Ryan involved, as a first order plot, in an economic war with Japan, waged with all the tools of modern electronic markets, where Ryan's prior experience as a Wall Street analyst is useful, believable, and comprehensible to the reader. This alone is no small feat for Clancy, as Wall Street jargon is a language all its own, and the internal workings of the markets are mainly a dark mystery to most. Of course, this being a Clancy novel, there is far more than just one main plot, and when things deteriorate to a shooting war, he does his fine job of delineating actual tactics, weapons, squad level and executive decisions to the point of making the reader feel that he is there on the front line. The characterization of Yamata, one of the main driving forces on the opposing side, is very well done, and lends a sense of inevitability to the surprising and traumatic conclusion to this book. After reading this, Executive Orders is a must read, if just to find out "Now what?" (and you won't be disappointed, as Executive Orders is as good or maybe slightly better than this one). There are a few places where I felt Clancy could have been more concise; at times the level of detail he throws at the reader is overwhelming, and not truly necessary to developing his plot, characters, or theme. This is a typical Clancy failing (which seems to have become much worse in his latest couple of novels) -- here it is quite bearable, and it is fairly easy to recognize those sections where it is safe to do some skim reading. Some readers of this have felt that the depicted scenario is too far out, that this could never happen in the real world. This is not a failure on the author's part, but rather the failure of too limited an imagination on the part of these readers. Events as they have occurred since this book was published in 1994 have, unfortunately, shown just how possible this kind of thing is, if not exactly right in all its details. But it is clear that America can be attacked in many more ways than the traditional military methods, from economics to bio-war to terrorists. How we can maintain our traditional freedoms while nullifying these threats is a continuing question that so far does not have any simple answer.
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Summary: 911, the date we all remember
Review: I just finished reading this novel a month ago. If I wrote a review right after that, I would have say something different. Yesterday, when I was watching the collapsing of WTC, I kept remembering the plot of this novel. It is so shock and sad that terrorism really happen in it fullest. May God bless all the victim and their families.
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Summary: Truth stranger than fiction?
Review: Readers who look back over the last chapter will be pondering the events of today and wondering if it gave the idea to the terrorists ...
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