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Review title: Someone get this guy an editor.
Product review: Let me start out as saying that I am a fan of Tom Clancy. I loved almost every book that came before this. Sum of all Fears is a very compelling story but this book could afford to lose about 300 pages. Does the reader really need to follow the path of a tree being shipped to Japan? Yes it does play a significant role later in the story but do I need to know the name of the guy who cut it down and how he came to be a lumberjack? We're given 3 pages of background on a cop who is murdered and never mentioned again. And the building of the bomb! I skipped many pages when it came to this. It's by sheer luck that I happened to stumble on the only significant part of the bomb's making.This book almost put me off Clancy for good. I haven't and probably won't read DEBT OF HONOR or EXECUTIVE ORDER. I did read and enjoy the John Clark stories WITHOUT REMORSE and RAINBOW SIX. Retire Jack Ryan and stick with Clark and Ding Chavez.
