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Title: Worst Clancy Ever
Review: I don't read Tom Clancy books and expect writing like John Le Carre, but this one is a new low in Hardy Boy like prose. It also features a lot more of the worst written character in American fiction, his pal Robbie. Every scene this guy is in makes me cringe with embarssment that Clancy is actually trying to pawn him off as a real human. Boy's Life magazine has more real sounding dialog. If I had to read once more about "fighter jocks strapping an F-14 on their backs" (which we had to hear about, verbatim, at least five times) I was going to puke. Oh, and can you imagine a Tom Clancy love scene? Don't. I have enjoyed Tom Clancy books immensely over the years, and might again, but the next one will wait till it's out in paperback, if there is a next one. Maybe he just cranked this one out to pay for his divorce.
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