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Summary: Best of the Bunch!
Review: I absolutely loved this one! Jerome Preisler has followed through on the events of BIO STRIKE with a sequel that, as seems typical with this series, weaves together several disparate, complex storylines and locales in seamless fashion-- in this case inventively crossing genres with a tale of fiberoptic data theft in Africa, the kidnapping of core character Roger Gordian's daughter in California, and a blood vendetta between series hero Tom Ricci and his nemesis that I suspect is going to have great ramifications for the future of the POWER PLAYS series. As usual, realistic characterization, colorful villains and original prose stylings are strong points. A page turner from start to finish.
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Summary: I hope Mr. Clancy was a victim of Identity theft.....
Review: I hope that Mr. Clancy was the victim of identity theft and he did not willingly sell his name to this book. I have to give it a one star because there is nothing lower. I actually gave up on this book after 150 pages because it was so horrible. These 150 pages could have been more effectively written on 30 pages. After reading 1/3 of the book there was no continuity, no direction and no plot that I could find. This is an absolute sell out of an authors name. If you closely read the cover you will see that Tom Clancy has little or nothing to do with this book. He has obviously just sold out his audience for a few dollars. I wonder if he could even stand to read this book. THIS IS A BAD BOOK.............. I have just finished reading the other reviews and it seems odd that 8 people rated this book as the lowest possible rating and 1 rated it as a 4 and 2 as a 5 star. I was puzzled about the 4 and 5's until I realized that the publisher, the author and the author's mother probably wrote the reviews and even one of those could only give it a 4. I don't think Tom Clancy himself could read this book and give it a good review.
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Summary: Stay away!
Review: I just read all the reviews on this book I finished a couple hours ago...interesting. Well, to be honest, I listened to it during a long trip (a great habit to consider for anyone who doesn't do this!) and I presume the story didn't change significantly in translation. The book didn't, in my opinion, "suck". But it wasn't good either. My feeling is that a good book is either character driven or event driven. This book is neither. In fact it's fully unmotivated. Sure, there are characters, and there are events, but you don't much care for either. I don't care about Uplink corporation, and I don't care about those people inside that organization. There is no clear protagonist, though there are several interesting special ops type characters. There is no clear antagonist. Well, I guess there is, but he's not particularly interesting and his motivations are COMPLETELY unclear and not well resolved even in the "riveting climax". (I put that in quotes because I can imagine something to that effect is probably written in all capital letters on the dust jacket). I got this because I made a mistake and thought it was actually WRITTEN by Tom Clancy. A mistake I won't repeat. It was written by a techno-thriller Clancy wannabe and Clancy sold out...again. I didn't give it a single star because it *did* have some interesting bits. Several times my wife and I looked at one another knowingly when a transparent plot point came to light. When we figured out the "mystery" (far too easily done, unfortunately). The main thing that gives it a star above rock bottom is what Adam from WI seemed to dislike most about the book. The word play. This was a pretty bad book that was bogged down by lots and lots of extra wordage. That's not a compliment, but it made for some fun "reading" nonetheless. This author has a talent in his use of vocabulary, and he actually writes good dialog. I'd be willing to bet he'd make a great screen writer. But, at least at this point in his career, he's no novelist.
Rating: 
Summary: It could be worse, it could be raining.
Review: I just read all the reviews on this book I finished a couple hours ago...interesting. Well, to be honest, I listened to it during a long trip (a great habit to consider for anyone who doesn't do this!) and I presume the story didn't change significantly in translation. The book didn't, in my opinion, "suck". But it wasn't good either. My feeling is that a good book is either character driven or event driven. This book is neither. In fact it's fully unmotivated. Sure, there are characters, and there are events, but you don't much care for either. I don't care about Uplink corporation, and I don't care about those people inside that organization. There is no clear protagonist, though there are several interesting special ops type characters. There is no clear antagonist. Well, I guess there is, but he's not particularly interesting and his motivations are COMPLETELY unclear and not well resolved even in the "riveting climax". (I put that in quotes because I can imagine something to that effect is probably written in all capital letters on the dust jacket). I got this because I made a mistake and thought it was actually WRITTEN by Tom Clancy. A mistake I won't repeat. It was written by a techno-thriller Clancy wannabe and Clancy sold out...again. I didn't give it a single star because it *did* have some interesting bits. Several times my wife and I looked at one another knowingly when a transparent plot point came to light. When we figured out the "mystery" (far too easily done, unfortunately). The main thing that gives it a star above rock bottom is what Adam from WI seemed to dislike most about the book. The word play. This was a pretty bad book that was bogged down by lots and lots of extra wordage. That's not a compliment, but it made for some fun "reading" nonetheless. This author has a talent in his use of vocabulary, and he actually writes good dialog. I'd be willing to bet he'd make a great screen writer. But, at least at this point in his career, he's no novelist.
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Summary: Clancy has sold out by putting his name on books like this
Review: I knew full well that Clancy was not the primary author of this book - that he and Greenberg created a formula framework that Preisler just had to follow. Yet this book still disappointed - the author truly seemed to be just plugging stock spy thriller components into a "choose your own adventure" framework, and was left with a choppy book with a poor plot, insufficient character development and a climax that was boring at best. Sure, they make him tons of money, but Clancy should really rethink putting his name on books like these - they diminish his reputation and "brand".
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Summary: LOVED IT,WHAT ELSE CAN I SAY
Review: I thought this novel was the best. Period. And as to Adam from Wasau, Wisconsin, a previous reviewer -- before you take a shot at ANY writing job, or a stab at another of these reviews, or even a crack at making out a check or addressing an envelope, try to get your spelling right . . . or find some very, very patient editors (not "editor's", as you wrote) to assist you, since I think you'll need an army of them due to your severely (is that what you mean by "severly", whicn isn't an English word?) atrocious grammar. Nonetheless -- "non-the-less" isn't a word in my dictionary, either -- it's too bad you were dissapointed with the book (uh, ummm, now you've got me messing up. The correct spelling is "disappointed", but I'd better cut out of here before the misspelling bee that obviously stung you multiple times buzzes my way). A parting word of advice before I go: Given your problems with the language, maybe you ought to take another look at the novel and read over the sentences that are supposedly missing all those "to", "it", and "as" words. Read slowly, take your time, there's no rush. Maybe ask someone with, ah, more refined reading and writing skills than your own for help, it's no shame. Nor would it be too difficult -- pick somebody off the street at random, and he or she will probably be a few ticks up on you in that department. Betcha you'll find those words aren't SUPPOSED to be there . . . and also learn something in the process!
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Summary: Horrible book!!
Review: I'm not sure why some of the reviews for this book have 4 stars, but I thought this was the most incoherent book I read. It was like inflicting torture on yourself to continue reading this book. Stay away from it! And to you John Robertill, in defense of Adam from WI, it's his opinion, let it go. 95% of your review was spent raving about how he made typos instead of giving your thoughts on the book. Obviously you've been deeply wounded by his comments and you have some personal link to the authoring of this ghastly creation called a book!
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Summary: Bad editing caught my attention more then the story did
Review: I've continued to read the Power Plays series only because, well, honestly I don't know why, the Clancy name on it I guess. I know he's never written them but I read them non-the-less because they usually sound like a promising topic. I've never read a book that missed so many "to's, as's, and it's". Maybe during dialogue that's how they'd talk, but in non-dialogue paragraphs? Ridiculous, I think even the editor's realize no one will really read this. I really liked the concept of Africa becoming a turf war, but it never really amounted to that-it came down to a vendetta and the whole UpLink African venture fell in the background. I was severly dissapointed and am writing this in the hopes that they get a new author for these books. Hell, I'll give it a shot if you give me a start-up price! And as to John who believes I'm a toddler who's never gone to school, I've read ever Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton novel and excelled in my english classes at school. If you've got a problem with me, you do it outside of Amazon. I'm telling people what I thought, and I'm sure they don't give if you or anyone else spells perfectly on here-I wasn't aware this was graded. Grow up-I have.
Rating:
Summary: Horrible
Review: I, too, was misled by the huge Tom Clancy by-line that suggested he is the author of this trash. I am dismayed that Mr. Clancy would allow his name to be attached to such sophmoric blundering. The endless drifting and disconnect (If I want to learn about the plight of greyhounds, I will buy a dog book) by writer Jerome Preisler made it impossible to gain any feel at all for the plot or the characters. Mr. Clancy lost a reader.
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Summary: Tom Clancy should be ashamed to have his name on this.
Review: The only reason I kept reading this terrible book was faith that, because it was titled "Mr. Clancy's ...", it would somehow get better. NOT! The couple of good reviews here must have been written by dishonest, paid promoters.
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