The Bear and the Dragon
in hardcover, on the list for 24 weeks!President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known, in Tom Clancy's extraordinary new novel....A high-level assassination attempt in Russia has the newly elected Ryan sending his most trusted eyes and ears—including antiterrorism specialist John Clark—to Moscow, for he fears the worst is yet to come. And he's right. The attempt has left the already unstable Russia vulnerable to ambitious forces in China eager to fulfill their destiny—and change the face of the world as we know it...
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- I will miss his books, "Red Storm Rising" and "Clear and Present Danger" are both in my library. Some of his later books [1] suffered from too much detail, where I would have appreciated an editor with the guts to say "Tom, its great that this character has a full life history and several motivating events in their past, but we don't actually need all of that in the book to tell this story ...".
It's also sad to see a talented writer die at such a young age. Goodbye Tom, thanks for the great books.
[1] I am specifically referring to "The Bear and the Dragon" in this example.
- Tom Clancy wrote about this in one of his books. It seems very plausible.
- The book's better, if you liked the movie.
It was actually the first "adult" book I read. Maybe when I was 9? I told my father I was bored of school books, and he handed it to me.
As well as Clancy's other stuff!
Just stop reading at 2000 (last recommended book: The Bear and the Dragon). After that he started phoning it in / lending out the name as ghostwritten brand.
- While Science Fiction and not directly related, one of the Tom Clancy novels went into the Science of missile intercept pretty extensively(was a very important part of the book.
This book brought to my attention the mathematics and for lack of a better term difficulty of having a missile intercept system. Not only the mathematics but the but the raw limitations of physics that must be dealt with. In the case of the book it was ICBM's which travel much faster, 7 km/s (15,700 mph)[1], compared to the 3749.11 mph of the skud missile.
For anyone interested the book is Tom Clancy - The Bear and the Dragon.
- Sad. I really liked the earlier Ryan-verse books (I've not read anything by him after Bear and the Dragon).
My favourite remains Without Remorse. I miss a film adaption; Jim Caviezel would be perfect as Kelly.
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