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Review title: Good as a thriller, but one-sided
Product review: Patriot Games is certainly a powerful thriller. The book catches you up and sweeps you along in its flow. However, there are some rocks in that flow. Tom Clancy seems to consistently take only one side of all the issues at hand - and while this is common in thrillers, in this book it reaches extremes that almost sickened me. There is a general refusal to acknowledge that terrorists or rebels ever have a cause or a reason to do what they are doing other than greed. The IRA are portrayed as evil murderers without a shred of conscience, and the protagonist Jack Ryan frequently goes off into philosophical reflections on how horrible and evil terrorists are (e.g., they can't face a "real" army, they always murder innocents, etc.)It could be argued that thrillers cannot funciton without some bias, but I think Tom Clancy takes it too far.
