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Summary: The best book I've ever read, and I've read a lot
Review: He's helped find and obtain a russian nuclear sub, taught irish terrorists not to mess with our country, made a huge dent in the drug trade, and now, Jack Ryan has decided to achieve world peace, setting into motion a middle Eastern Peace plan, seeming to end his long history of heroism. Now, he settles down with a bottle of whiskey and a quaint little family, his retirement soon to come. But Jack Ryan can't rest. His first enemy is liz Elliot, who climbs the corporate ladder by getting her opponments fired and sleeping with mr. prez. When she feels she doesn't like our favorite hero, Jack Ryan, she quickly makes his innocent friendship with carol Zimmer look like an innappropriate one. While this goes unoticed by Jack, Clark and Ding straighten out lady Ryan before a divorce results. While this keep's the Ryan family together, Liz elliot's new position as national security advisor and presidential girlfriend allows her to persuade the president into firing jack. But before he can, tragedy erupts. After arab terrorists find plutonium, they use it against the U.S. at the super Bowl, and their russian partner ignites a tank battle between Russia and America in hopes of ultimately starting a nuclear war. Ryan goes into action to stop a nuclear holocaust, but with the president ignoring him, He must go against the president's demands and seek a solution. Although this book starts off very boring, persistence will be awarded by an unsurprassed techno thriller. With superb knowledge of nuclear weapons, millitary tactics, and of course, submarine warfare, Tom Clancy has written a frighteningly real Novel. This is the best book I ever read, though you should definately read The hunt for red october, Patriot Games, and Clear and Present Danger first.
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Summary: I think that this book is one hell of a book.
Review: Tom does it again. I have read this book at least six times and I know it by heart. I think that this book is one of the best books by Tom Clancy.
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Summary: THE BEST BY TOM CLANCY
Review: This is by far, the best book with Jack Ryan in it, and by far the best book by Tom Clancy. Believe me, I read almost all his works (only Red Strom Rising is missing) and I definitely recommend this to anyone- males and females alike. It really give an insight on how the people at Washington operates and how one stupid President and can almost make a destructive move. It is not easy for Jack Ryan to face both outside and inside enemies. The climax is the best and it really showed you don't need to go out there and killing people to have a good action book. Read it- you don't know what you miss.
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Summary: Clancy's best so far, and one of the best EVER of its genre
Review: Ranks with the best of Fredrick Forsyth's poltical/military thrillers. In terms of the complexity of the plot, the development of characters, and most of all the chillingly real terror of its premise, this book is stunning. People will be reading it for decades--one hopes NOT because its story ultimately came true. The scene in which the red phone on the President's coffee table rings is one of the most thrilling I've ever read. A masterpiece of its genre.
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Summary: So far so good
Review: This is more a comment than a review, but hope you won't mind. I have been playing "catch up" on Clancy's books this summer, trying to save the latest for last.I finished Debt of Honor and then Sum of All Fears. Then just started Without Remorse. Have gotten to the rehabilitation stage, just really getting into the story so far. Here's how I found Amazon. Our Rhodesian Ridgeback hound is a big baby and spoiled rotten. I placed the book, Without Remorse on my bedside and went out. When I returned, I found it shredded. So, have to buy another one to finish novel. NOW. My son e-mailed me this website and found you to order new copy. And may I say, a much less expensive one, from the price I see on the web. Now, don't think for a minute that the Ridgeback was making a literary comment. She is just jealous that Clancy novels are taking so much of my time and I am enjoying them instead of playing with her. And I have. Guilty of same. Can't wait to get new copy and start reading again. In meantime, I am reading the book in loose partial pages.
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Summary: Did he read Clinton's horoscope before he wrote this book?
Review: Just finished Sum of All Fears. We all know that no matter how high one climbs that person still has his basic character that overrides all judgements and thoughts. Do we have a President with the weak character that would prefer to start a nuclear war to leaving office? I don't want to give away the end, but just as I was finishing that book, to start on Without Remorse Clinton was making threats to attack one more country with the same military that he has dodged and dismantled. Tom Clancy reminds me that character does matter. But I never forgot that.
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Summary: This Book Proves Jack Ryan is America's James Bond!!!!!
Review: America's James Bond is back--better than ever before in a novel so thrilling and exciting, not even Ian Fleming could have imagined it (albeit, he came close in Moonraker). In it, Ryan invisions a plan for world peace on an epic scale--only to cause an indirect war with wrathful terrorists who would stop at nothing to bring America and the Ryan Plan to its knees. But that isn't all. Besides building the Peace Plan--known as the Vatican Treaty--he must deal with enemies within, who, too, would stop at nothing to personally see Jack Ryan's destuction. Between an egomaniacal President and a backstabbing National Security Advisor, Ryan has his hands quite full, leaving him on the verge of collapse. Ah, but that isn't all. The intricate icing on this complex cake is a nuclear bomb going off in a major metropolis! Now, with a war on the verge of nuclear, Ryan must steel all his strengths (for so much has already been drained) and figure out just how he can save himself and his world from Apocalypse. It's a high tech masterpiece with a great many pages you may not finish (a little too descriptive at times), but it's still the best novel I have ever read so far in the Ryan series. To me, James Bond would be proud!!!! Believe it!!
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Summary: Dangerously Real
Review: Having had access to nuclear weapon design information, and been trained in the "how to's" of rendering the weapons safe in the event of an incident or accidental arming I KNOW how easy the building of a crude weapon could be given today's technology and information highways. Clancy is so accurate (as always) with his description of the fabrication of the weapon that it is frightening. The boys at AEC or Lawrence-Livermore probably had coronaries when they read this book.
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Summary: The most intensive Tom Clancy novel since "Red October"!!!
Review: This is one of Tom Clancy's best works yet. He shows that he can be a progressive writer, by showing us a different look at the heroic Jack Ryan. I am very impressed with the sheer intensity of this book. There is a line in the book that is used to describe DefCon ONE and I think it applys to the feel of the book. It basicly says that the Americans and the Russians have their guns out and they're pointed at each other and the saftey's off and their finger is on the trigger feeling its preasure. I have yet to read the next in the Jack Ryan series, but I am looking forward to it.
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Summary: Bringing out what makes Clancy great.
Review: I think that "The Sum of All Fears" is by far Clancy's best work. I have read all of his stuff several times over, and this continues to amaze me. He develops real characters with real feelings in a plausable, exciting, nail-biting adventure. His latter books seem to long and ponderous, and lack the total suspense of this novel. The hot-line by-play of Naramov and Jack Ryan is some of the best stuff I have ever read.
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