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Summary: Too prophetic.....
Review: This book just becomes even more meaningful today. With the horrific and tragic terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon via a deliberate airliner crash today, Debt of Honor become a prophetic work. The final chapter of this great book ends with a parallel scenario - a terrorist, bent on revenge, crashes a jumbo jet into the Capitol Building.My prayers go to all the victims of this catastrophe and their families. I pray also for those who work tirelessly to save as many lives as they can in what remains of the WTC and the Pentagon. September 11th, 2001 .... another date that will burn forever in infamy.
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Summary: Suddenly too real
Review: Though there were some unbelievable parts throughout the book, as he has in most of his novels, who would have though that the end of the novel would come true, but only in another location. The previous book was just made into a movie. This climax was just made reality. But there is no Jack Ryan to make things right.
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Summary: When reality imitates art
Review: This Clancy novel, part of the Jack Ryan saga, follows the protagonist through his reluctant but moralistic attitude through the American political landscape. Jack is the National Security Advisor for a President bogged down within a increasingly hostile relationship with the Japanese and the unfortunate embargo on Japanese products after a Japanese made car destroys the lives of an average American family. Thus fueling an escalation of political sparring between the countries. The leader of the Japanese economic contingent contrives a plan to cripple the US economy and somewhat achieves its goal, with the intention of bringing Japan to the forefront of the global economic community. The book ends in an incredible scenario in which reality truly imitates art. I was reminded of this book today that I read 4 years ago, while watching CNN coverage of the planes that deliberately collided with the World Trade Center in New York City causing its collapse and thousands possibly dead. You will see once you're done reading this novel the similarities between the Clancy novel and the World Trade Center travesty resembles one another. For this reason, it is worth reading the political thriller to feel the "behind the scenes" happenings of this horrible tragedy that has befallen the United States. I hope we can all learn from the World Trade Center tragedy by possibly paying closer attention to the political fiction writers that prophesy these horrible circumstances. Insofar as the books literary value, it is an average Clancy thriller, but definitely worth reading after the circumstances in New York City.
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Summary: Excellent Read
Review: This book is excellent. I am absolutely dumbfounded that a number of people who read this book found it so boring. What amazes me about Clancy's writing is his minute attention to details. I like the evolution of Clancy's novels, particularly with the Jack Ryan series. He has moved mostly from intellegence, cloak and dagger stuff, and covert operations, to a much more sophisticated brand of writing. In his later Ryan Books, beginning with Clear and Present Danger, Clancy begins to get more into political intrugue and other issues. Clancy takes seemingly unrelated events and draws them together. Furthermore with Debt of Honor, Clancy goes deeper into political and economic situations than he has heretofor gone. If you are like me and are fascinated by the workings of our country's political and economic systems then you will be made very happy by this book. Don't get me wrong there is plenty fo action in this book to keep you going. If you are only interested in war and covert operations then this book will lose you for about 500 pages.
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Summary: Debt of Honor
Review: The other reviews tell you what you want to know so I won't elaborate on that. Note that some of the minor relationships are more interesting if you've read "Without Remorse" first. Great book for John Clark fans.
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Summary: Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor
Review: Raizo Yamata can be considered a true patriot. Unfortunately, he is narrow minded and cannot see long term effects. This action packed book starts with a new Japanese automobile, Cresta, being imported into the United States with faulty gas tanks. How can anyone take this little detail and develop it into a dubious war? Tom Clancy is filled with brilliant ideas for his book, and they always catch you off guard. Tom Clancy knows how to surprise his readers. An awsome thriller!
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Summary: One thousand pages of 500 pages of material
Review: The Book, Debt of Honor, is a book concerning a ambitious Japanese politician who starts a war with the US. The US blame the Japanese of monopolizing the car markets in Japan, so the put an embargo on all Japanese goods until they make free trade. The Japanese, with their economy failing because of the US's embargo, goes to war by sneak attacking US ships during a war drill. To make matters worse, the US and Russia had just destroyed their last nuclear weapons when the Japanese announced their intentions of taking back of the Pacific island they lost during WWII and their new Nuclear weapons. The United States fights back, wins the support of the world as they score a number of sly and cunning victories. Even though I wrecked the first half of the book, you can read the other half yourself.
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Summary: Reality surprises in plausible ways - so does Clancy
Review: The gifted writer provides surprises that "smell" like reality: first you're stunned, but then looking back you see the clear trail leading to an outcome. This book is an example. I've read some bizarre reviews of this book complaining it was "too tedious" in the econonmic details, and that a war with Japan was "completely implausible", that the Japanese are nuclear pacifists who would never build such weapons. But just today I read comments by a respected international analyst pointing out that many Pacific nations may be forced to align with the growing power in Beijing against the U.S. Perhaps it's not so implausible after all. Anyway Clancy carefully weaves the web of technical, military, diplomatic, econonmic, and personal details that show how quickly our ephemeral grasp of world reality can or could be shattered by rapidly unfolding events. The childish think the world can be made permanently stable; the realistic know it aint so. Anyone who enjoys trying to think through the possibilies should read Clancy. p.s. some reviewers accused Clancy of jingoism. This is clearly ridiculous, since his books are full of the details of mistakes made by leaders (U.S. leaders included) that lead to instability and war. Few writers have been more specifically cautionary about the limits of U.S. power. That Clancy thinks flawed American democracy is preferrable, say, to socialist dictatorship hardly qualifies as "jingoistic".
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Summary: War of Revenge
Review: Debt of Honor By Tom Clancy There are many different types of wars. There are wars of aggression and there are wars for territories and resources. This war was none of those. The shooting war between America and Japan was a war of revenge. It was a war not begun by a nation but a war that was started by one individual, Razio Yamata. Yamata has had antipathy for the United States ever since the death of his parents. It was World War Two and his home island of Saipan (one of the islands in the Pacific which used to be under Japanese rule) was about to be invaded by the U.S. Marines. His parents sent him off on a ship to Japan and then took their own lives. He has become a successful businessman and has planned a way to cripple America and bring Japan to power. Most of his colleagues do not agree with him until there is a trade war with the US. On one front he starts a shooting war with America and at another he manipulates the US business economy and brings Wall Street to its knees. To find out how the war ends and if America can repair its economy you must read the book. There are many reasons that I liked this book. I like an intricate plot and there were many different subplots in this book that intertwined with this book. You must read the other books in the series to fully understand and appreciate all of the different subplots. One of the characters you might remember from the other stories if you have read them is Clark and Chavez. They are involved in most of the action scenes and greatly enhance the book. Another area, which I liked and which is included in most of Clancy's books, was the techno warfare. Clancy does a very good job with the details and it is never boring. The only bad thing about this book, like most Clancy novels, is the length. It could have been edited down from its plus 800 pages to a little over 500. This book was never boring and I recommend it to anyone who has a weekend aside to sit down and read. I also recommend reading the novels that were written before this so it can enhance how much you understand and appreciate each character and the situations they're in. I also recommend that you read the next book, Executive Orders, because the ending of this book leaves you in a lurch and you want find out what happens. This book deserves all five stars.
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Summary: Half way and finally getting interested
Review: I'm 500 pages into the book right now and it's finally starting to get interesting. The first 3 or 400 pages were like attending an economics seminar, very boring! I like Clancy's books for the military aspect, I almost quit reading about 5 times, but perseverence is finally paying off. In the book the United States and Russia rid both of their nuclear arsenals completley, I found that very hard to believe. I've come to expect that Clancy's books have numerous sub-plots and it usually takes 200 pages to get started, but he really overkilled the details in this book.
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