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ISBN-10: 0-425-12212-3
ISBN-13: 9780425122129
Publisher: Berkley
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Year: July 1, 1990
Edition: Other Printing
Size: 9.65 x 16.76 x 3.05cm
Number of pages: 704
Weight: 136gr
Binding: Paperback
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Tom Clancy, J. Charles (reader)
Bookcassette; 1990
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Tom Clancy, J. Charles (reader)
Unabridged Library Edition; 1990
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Tom Clancy, J. Charles (reader)
Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Edition; 2004
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Tom Clancy, J. Charles (reader)
Brilliance Audio Unabridged; 2004
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Tom Clancy, J. Charles (reader)
Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged; 2004
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Tom Clancy, J. Charles (reader)
Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Edition; 2004
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At the end of the prologue to Clear and Present Danger, Clancy writes, »And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning--and, once decided, best unseen.« In Clear and Present Danger nothing is as clear as it may seem.
The president, unsatisfied with the success of his »war on drugs,« decides that he wants some immediate success. But after John Clark's covert strike team is deployed to Colombia for Operation Showboat, the drug lords strike back taking several civilian casualties. The chief executive's polls plummet. He orders Ritter to terminate their unofficial plan and leave no traces. Jack Ryan, who has just been named CIA deputy director of intelligence is enraged when he discovers that has been left out of the loop of Colombian operations. Several of America's most highly trained soldiers are stranded in an unfinished mission that, according to all records, never existed. Ryan decides to get the men out.
Ultimately, Clear and Present Danger is about good conscience, law, and politics, with Jack Ryan and CIA agent John Clark as its dual heroes. Ryan relentlessly pursues what he knows is right and legal, even if it means confronting the president of the United States. Clark is the perfect soldier, but a man who finally holds his men higher than the orders of any careless commander.
Along with the usual, stunning array of military hardware and the latest techno-gadgets, Clear and Present Danger further develops the relationships and characters that Clancy fans have grown to love. Admiral James Greer passes the CIA torch to his pupil, Ryan. Mr. Clark and Chavez meet for the first time. Other recurring characters like Robert Ritter and »the President« add continuity to Clancy's believable, alternate reality. This is Clancy at his best. --Patrick O'Kelley
The controversial bestseller from Tom Clancy, the all-time master of the techno-thriller. CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan joins the war on drugs. And when three American officials are assassinated in Colombia, the U.S. response is swift-and shocking.
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A good read to a good book, I just wish that they had an unabridged version of it.
This is my favorite novel by Clancy! This is a good balance of action and political intrigue that I crave. I wish more would create such intrigue as Clancy did in this book. I like politics and I like it alot when an author shows how corrupt politics can get and the scheme that they can create. This novel gives a good insight into what possibly might happen, when politics and personal vendetta get out of hand and how the consequences of that action, especially by the President of the United States, can go terribly wrong. This novel is Tom Clancy. I would recommend that everyone who has never read him start with this book! Clancy is at his best and his story is brilliant.
Clear and Present Danger is your prototypical Tom Clancy Jack Ryan novel. This one gets a sort of slow start and contains a lot of extra stuff that seemed unnecessary. The book was really longer than it needed to be an lost my attention in some spots. Minus that, the story and basic plot is one of the best around. The movie, as usual, completely butchered the story. I would recommend this book to anyone who doesn't mind a long read
It's bad to wage war on drug dealers in South America?!?!?!?!? I wish Tom Clancy would do us all a big favor and keep his silly Libertarian views to himself.
If I had to describe this book with one word it would be long. This book goes on forever. It wouldn't be so bad if it were interesting, but long stretches of this book are very dry and boring. It takes several hundred pages to set up the story, and much of this is wasted on extensively describing characters and subplots that have very little to do with the main story. When the main part of the story is going, it goes very well. There is intrigue, suspense, exciting gunplay, and surprises that are typical of Clancy novels. But there is so much in between that the book as a whole drags. In addition, the discussions about the rape early in the book and the foul language did nothing to contribute to the story, and in fact detracted greatly from it.
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