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Summary: it is simply a bad book
Review: Since I read 'Clear and present danger' I have been a fan of Tom Clancy's books. Those books are usually well written, with enough details and an interesting line. They usually are believable since the author is able to unite reality and the storyline in the book. Well, this book was not another example of the above. The books reflects a situation in Spain that is just incredible. The author probably does not know anything about Spain, their political system and their military units (a list of those can be found easy in internet) The name of the non-American characters look like taken out from a cheap novel. I might remember the author than for example people have 2 last names. Another important error is the role of Interpol. Finally I would recommend the author that next time he decide to name organizations , streets and other 'details' he ask someone that: 1- Know Spanish (so he do not make those gross grammar mistakes) 2- Know Spain (so he do not make errors about politics, names and life). My conclusion about this book is that it look more like FANTASY than fictions. The storyline is not credible and it has too many mistakes that may offend an Spaniard (Spaniard = citizen from Spain) If I may say something more I recommend not to bother buying books from the OP-center and Net-force line since the quality of those is low and keep reading the other books written by Tom Clancy (that are more credible, better written and in general good)
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Summary: This is pure racism
Review: Spain is not a country like Yugoslavia. Spanish people live without the tensions that the author mentions. Spain is not a banana-republic. Mr Tom Clancy, please... come to Spain before saying all that nonsense. You can do it better.
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Summary: Sure it is fiction... and only fiction :-(
Review: T.C. usually means accurate information and a lot of research work. This one is just the reverse: shows how innacuratelly it can be written a book. If this was a book about Germany in the '30s, the jews and democrats would rule the country and the oppressed nazi supporters were the heroes who tried to help and save Germany. This is for the political trends presented in this book. Then, there's at least 100 innacurate facts and descriptions provided in the book that are, at least, wrong. Either spelling of spanish words, behaviours, etc. The biggest fumble is identifying mexican life-style (from food habits to words) with spanish life-style. Who has ever been both to Spain and Mexico will agree that the spanish society presented in "OP-C: BoP" is closer to the real mexican rather than the spanish society. Yes, it's a __pure__ fiction book.
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Summary: Sure it is fiction... and only fiction :-(
Review: T.C. usually means accurate information and a lot of research work. This one is just the reverse: shows how innacuratelly it can be written a book. If this was a book about Germany in the '30s, the jews and democrats would rule the country and the oppressed nazi supporters were the heroes who tried to help and save Germany. This is for the political trends presented in this book. Then, there's at least 100 innacurate facts and descriptions provided in the book that are, at least, wrong. Either spelling of spanish words, behaviours, etc. The biggest fumble is identifying mexican life-style (from food habits to words) with spanish life-style. Who has ever been both to Spain and Mexico will agree that the spanish society presented in "OP-C: BoP" is closer to the real mexican rather than the spanish society. Yes, it's a __pure__ fiction book.
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Summary: Excellent Story!
Review: Take the great ideas of Tom Clancy and add them with the great audio voice of Jay O. Sanders and you have a great work! A few little errors in culture and language shouldn't deter a fan of Clancy from listening to this book...
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Summary: Trite -- all cliche
Review: The first 120 pages consist of trite, stereotypical dialogues between nearly two dozen agency directors and various bureaucrats(mostly in Wash., DC). There is no focus on one particular person and hence ruins the reader's interest, let alone empathy. The language lacks sparkle and originality. The book ends with the typical and foreseeable carnage that is as boring as it is unrealistic. I hope no one gets the idea of making another worthless movie from the gore.
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Summary: And I used to enjoy Clancy ....
Review: The most hilarious, pathetic and stupid novel I have read in the past years. The good thing about Clancy novels was that they were accurate: Red Storm Rising painted a chillingly exact third world war, down to the smallest political and military details. This one is pure nonsense from the word go. The problem, the real problem, is that millions of people will read it and think Spain is that way.
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Summary: A book full of political inculture
Review: THis book is full of lies,and threat spain as if it was in a civil war... Nothing is real and it seems to have been invented by a man who hates spanish ppl. I recommend to warn this "author" to improve his knowledgements bout spain and the real situation.
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Summary: Op-Center's strong anti-spanish bias
Review: This book represents a blatant insult to any sensitive person of spanish culture. It looks like having being written from a strongly prejudiced standpoint, and it is full of inaccuracies and negative topics with respect to my country (or to any latin american one, which seems to be confused with present day's Spain). If the authors consider it just fiction I would expect having such a kind of fiction about the author's country. By reading it one can realise that we, the spanish cultured people, do not have in Mr. Clancy & Co any enthusiastic admirer.
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Summary: WOW I liked it!
Review: This book was GREAT! This was my first Tom Clancy and I read it while on vacation in Florida. My family was quite upset when I let them go to the beach without me so I could stay and read the book. It was full of action and intrigue. I am (was) not what you call an avid reader HOWEVER, since June I have read ALL of the Op Center books, one power plays and two of the Jack Ryan's. I just purchased Ruthless.com and I can't get enough. If you are a "techno-wieney" like me, you should ignore the half hearted reviews, buy the book and read it! It was great! (davidfrancis@bigfoot.com)
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