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Title: Cardinal of the Crap-lin
Review: "Not his best work" is being generous. I've been a Tom Clancy fan since I first read "Red Storm Rising" while deployed along the Inner-German Border at the height of the Cold War. But this is easily the worst Clancy I've ever read. The editing is horrendous, if there was editing at all. The sexual innuendo is laughable at best, and totally unnecessary. The plot lines drag along with no apparent direction or cohesion. To top it off, it appears that Clancy's main goal was to include every character that had ever appeared in a Ryan novel - except Marko Ramius, I think. And the abrupt ending just left me cold. Bottom line - it's not worth the effort to read. I struggled through it, hoping to see the Clancy of old. He's not there. Don't waste your time. Better to pick up a Dirk Pitt novel by Clive Cussler - at least there's some excitement.
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