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Summary: The President of the United States wants Ryan out
Review: Jack Ryan, now DDI, (Deputy Director of In- telligence), the post his mentor, the late Admiral James Greer, once held from The Hunt for Red October through Clear and Present Danger, is on the outs with the Fowler Administration. J. Robert Fowler, a Clintonesque POTUS, is a widower who lost his wife to cancer. He's so starved for affection that he turns to his Deputy National Security Advisor, Elizabeth Elliott. Elliott, a Super Bitch of the First Order, causes the death of her predecessor, Dr. Charles Alden, a man whose ancestry goes back to the Mayflower, suffers a stroke and dies. This after Alden, Ryan, and Father Tim Reilly, meet at the Georgetown Club to bring peace to the Middle East. Elliott, a viru- lent anti-Semite, finds Alden's Achilles' heel, a paternity suit filed by a former student named Marsha Blum, whom he got pregnant, and is apparently the father of her child. The Israeli Cabinet agrees to the Ryan pro- posal, which calls for the Vatican to be in c! harge. The Ryan Plan calls for Jerusalem to be run by a triumvirate of religious leaders--Christian, Moslem, and Jewish. Arab terrorists discover an Israeli nuclear bomb and decide to use it against the United States. Ismael Qati, Imbrahim Ghosn, Marvin Russell, a member of AIM, and German terrorist Gunther Bock, recruit Dr. Manfred Fromm, a nuclear physicist from East Germany's nuclear program to rebuild the bomb. The bomb goes to Denver where Minnesota and San Diego are about to play in the Super Bowl. Elizabeth Elliott, now Fowler's National Security Adviser, mounts a dirty tricks campaign against Ryan. Mr. Clark, and his protege, Ding Chavez, at the request of Cathy Ryan, look into it. They talk to Bob Holtzman, part of the husband-and-wife team who cover the White House, and he burns his source, Dr. Elizabeth Elliott. At a state dinner, Cathy Ryan and Elliott meet. At Camp David, the President and Elliott settle in to watch the Super Bowl when the bomb goes o! ff. Everyone, including the Secretary of Defense, is killed! in the attack. Qati and Ghosn kill Mar- vin Russell after his usefulness to them is over. In a fit of anger, Fowler orders America's ICBMs targeted on Qum, Iran, the home of the Ayatollah Mahmoud Haji Drayaei. Clark and Chavez get Qati and Ghosn and interrogate them. Elliott suffers a nervous break down and has to be sedated. Qati and Ghosn face Islamic justice in Saudi Arabia. Ryan receives the sword that beheaded them, the Breeze of Evening. Ryan meets with Darayaei and he lectures him on his religion's strict hospitality laws. Darayaei wants to know how he knows about Islam. Ryan replies that he'll be surprised. This isn't the last time this bad penny will turn up.
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Summary: ANOTHER CLANCY MASTERPIECE
Review: Another of the great books in the Jack Ryan series The Sum of All Fears is about a nuclear bomb going off in the United States-something that has never happened before. This book, like all of his others posses several tightly woven plotlines. The best to me was John Clark, marriage counselor. The thing I found especially interesting was that Clancy finally showed a chink in the boy scout armor of Jack Ryan (he was really getting on my nerves). After reading this I can't wait to tackle Debt of Honor.
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Summary: Stunning!
Review: I have read all Jack Ryan books except debt of honor and this is among the best to me. The story is convincing and the description of the character like Liz Elliot and Bob Rowler is perfect. He shows his knowledge on military field again by predicting the reaction caused by a nuclear detonation. The book is exciting overall but brought into a climax after 700 pages which is the most suitable place. The story developes into a state of total confrontation between each characters which is absolutely incredible. By the way, I like Tom's way of bringing up new characters for future use. He has done this to Clark and Ding and now to Durling and Daryaei. I must say this is an uncomparable effort.
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Summary: Unbelievable !!!!!
Review: Clancy at his best ! Theres a particular chapter (Three Shakes) where he takes us step by step on the detonation process of a nuclear device. That's unbelievable... The imagination of Tom Clancy has no rival. I recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: So, when's the movie?
Review: All I have to say is this: It took me only 4 days to read this 900+ page book. The story is so intense that you will never see the world from the same perspective again. Clancy literally forces you to understand every detail of what you're experiencing. It's frightening what he is capable of creating.
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Summary: Tom Clancy's best work
Review: I've read all of Tom Clancy's books (up till Executive Orders), and this is the best one (with Red Storm Rising a close second). The way he showed the tense situation unfolding was vey enjoyable, and I couldn't keep the book down. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: The best of Clancy
Review: The reason this book is my favorite Clancy novel is that Jack Ryan's entire life begins to unravel around him. He is not being shot at, but because of his personal problems, you feel as though he is in the most trouble yet. Very intense.
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Summary: Clancy's best!
Review: Could it be possible? Could a group of terrorists take our civilization to the edge of disaster? Jack Ryan seems to be the only man who can avoid a nuclear war!
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Summary: It was very suspenseful, thoroughly enoyable and believable.
Review: You would definately have to read this 900+ page book in order to really understand how I feel. Personally, there was a lot learned from this and I hope everyone that enjoys these types of novels will have the opportunity to read this book.
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Summary: Don't pick it up if you don't plan to finish it
Review: The Sum of All Fears could be considered a technical masterpiece...From wire to wire, it is a tight, precise thriller that manages to press all the right buttons. Never mind that it's over 900 pages...If you start reading and don't finish, you'll have done yourself a great injustice... Clancy only does one thing wrong here...He put San Diego and Minnesota in the Super Bowl...Don't get me wrong, if there's an event that begs for terrorist attention, it IS the Super Bowl (see Black Sunday, by Thomas Harris)...But it would be nice if the Cowboys had been wiped out in the fireball...
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