Speaking of which, they (the Chinese) were incredibly fucking stupid to start a war over gold and oil resources. The war itself was very fun to read about and, again with the weakness for sappy patriot stuff, I really enjoyed seeing how the Russians and Americans teamed up to fight the Chinese. She played a vital role on things, though unknowingly, but her sections about her activities were almost entirely unnecessary. One were the sections about the Russian police tailing the would-be assassin of the Russian president and the other were Ming's sections. He came off as a bit idealistic and arrogant, especially in the end where he got on the Navy ship instead of flying to safety.Īnother reason that I knocked the rating down was the amount of "fluff" sections that I felt could have been edited or eliminated entirely. While he was by no means a terrible person/bad president, I felt that the writing made me dislike him.
Jack Ryan himself was a bit of an annoyance to me and was indeed why I knocked. My favorite character was Gologo (the old man living in the Russian wilderness with the golden wolf pelts) because he was a tried and true Russian patriot who was not about to let invading foreigners take what was his (I'll admit that I am guilty of the sappy patriot stuff).
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Some (among the Chinese mainly) were so full of their own self-perceived importance that they could not see anything except visions of them conquering everyone, while others appeared more levelheaded and worked hard to accomplish their missions and reign in their comrades. My favorite parts of this novel were getting to see the individual personalities of the characters and how they thought and reacted towards others and the developing hostilities. I actually enjoyed this book for the most part, though I did not particularly like reading about the technical aspects of the military machines. Blending the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, razor-sharp suspense and a remarkable cast of characters, this is Clancy at his best - and ther is none better. If they fail.the consequences will be unspeakable. If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same. For even wile he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops specialist John Clark, to find out the truth of the matter, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here? Ryan is right. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the potential assassins. Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn, there's a revolution in Liberia, the Asian economy is going down the tubes, and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR - the former KGB - with a rocket - propelled grenade. Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier. In THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON, the future is very near at hand indeed. And he’s right.Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive, but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events. Including antiterrorism specialist John Clark-to Moscow, for he fears the worst is yet to come. President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known, in Tom Clancy’s extraordinary novel of international suspense.Ī high-level assassination attempt in Russia has newly elected Ryan sending his most trusted eyes and ears. “Nobody can touch his gift for describing combat.” CHAPTER 44 - The Shape of a New World Order
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