The Bear and the Dragon
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Time and again, Tom Clancy’s novels have been praised not only for their huge-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive, but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events. In The Bear and The Dragon, the future is very near at hand indeed.
Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has establish that being President has gotten no simpler. 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, a name may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR – the ex- KGB – with a rocket-propelled grenade. Things are unstable enough in Russia lacking high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the assassins. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected ex- KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more treacherous at work here.
Ryan is right. For even while 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 yet to be with a plot of truly audacious proportions. If they make it, the world as we know it will never look the same. If they fail–the consequences will be unspeakable.
Amazon.com Review
Power is delightful, and absolute power should be absolutely delightful–but not when you’re the most powerful man on planet and the place is ticking like a time bomb. Jack Ryan, CIA warrior turned U.S. president, is the man in the hot seat, and in this vast thriller he’s up to his nostrils in crazed Asian warlords, Russian thugs, nukes that won’t stay place, and authentic, up-to-the-nanosecond equipment as complex as the characters’ motives are simple. Quick, do you know how to reprogram the software in an Aegis missile seekerhead? Well, if you’re Jack Ryan, you’d better find a name who does, or an incoming ballistic may rain fallout on your parade. Terrible for reelection prospects. “You know, I don’t really like this job very much,” Ryan complains to his aide Arnie van Damm, who answers, “Ain’t supposed to be fun, Jack.”
But you bet The Bear and the Dragon is fun–over 1,000 swift pages’ worth. In the opening scene, a hand-launched RPG rocket nearly blows up Russia’s intelligence chief in his armored Mercedes, and Ryan’s clever spooks report that the guy who got the rocket in his face as a replacement for was the hoodlum “Rasputin” Avseyenko, who used to run the KGB’s “Sparrow School” of female prostitute spies. Soon after, two apparent assassins are establish handcuffed together afloat in St. Petersburg’s Neva River, their bloated faces resembling Pokémon toys.
The stakes go privileged as the mystery deepens: oil and gold are learned in huge quantities in Siberia, and the evil Chinese Minister Lacking Portfolio Zhang Han San stares northward with lust. The laid-off elite of the Soviet Army figure in the brewing troubles, as do the new generation of Tiananmen Square dissidents, Zhang’s wily, Danielle Steel-addicted executive secretary Lian Ming, and Chester Nomuri, a hip, Internet-porn-addicted CIA agent posing in China as a Japanese computer salesman. He e-mails his CIA boss, Mary Pat “the Cowgirl” Foley, that he intends to seduce Ming with Dream Angels perfume and scarlet Victoria’s Secret lingerie ordered from the catalog–strictly for God and country, of course. Soon Ming is calling him “Master Sausage” as a replacement for of “Pal,” but can anyone master Ming?
The plot is over the top, with devastating subplots erupting all over the globe and juicy characters scaring the wits out of each additional every few pages, but Clancy finds time to slot in hard-boiled small lessons on the vileness of Communism, the infuriating intrusions of the press on presidential power, the sexual perversions of Mao, the poor quality of Russian pistol silencers (“garbage, cans loaded with steel wool that self-destructed after less than ten shots”), the folly of cutting a man’s throat with a knife (“they flop around and make noise when you do that”), and similar topics. Naturally, the book bristles like a battlefield with intriguingly intricate military hardware.
When you’ve got a Tom Clancy novel in hand, who needs action movies? –Tim Appelo
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The book is one of the best books you can ever read… it is intresting and attracting. I reflect every one should read this intresting book.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I wont give away the details but it should be read by all Clancy fans.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I cant judge all the people who gave this book 1 or 2 stars and didnt even read the book. How absurd! I admit parts of the book may have been left out, yet all of it is appealing. The final 300 pages are the best and if you do not end reading the book you are only cheating yourself. So to everyone with fleeting attention spans who complained about how dull the book was and did not even read the whole thing, you can permanently watch TRL on MTV.
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Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
i highly recommend another book — entitled “JULIA’S MOTHER” — about an ER doctor effective at a children’s hospital — SO perfectly written, so poignant …. i couldnt place it down, didnt want it to end …..
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
unlike some people i read the whole book to know what it was like. yhea I read all 1137 pages of the book and I thougt it was fantastic so for all of you stupid illeterate people this book was fantastic and you dont know what you are talking about
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5