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Title: Clancy at his worst...?
Review: The Bear and the Dragon was, by far, Tom Clancy's poorest attempt to revive the techno-thriller genre. Nine hundred and fifty pages of build-up to a conflict which is superficially resolved in the last one hundred pages is not the way maintain a devoted following. Even the last line of the novel (a crass reference to "Japanese sausage") is apt to leave a bad taste in the reader's mouth.
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