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Title: The Bear and the Dragon
Review: I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Clancy years ago, right after The Hunt for Red October caught the country by storm. I liked his book and his writing. I have read almost all his books, the paperback techno thrillers are trash, and it only took 3 of them to convince me he was getting paid for his name and not his talent. His latest book has some good ideas but he gets lost delivering the material with bizarre subplots that had no meaning on the story. It is like he is getting paid by the pound for his work. This book could have been done in 600 pages and it would have been a page turner, instead it was 1000+ pages of yawner in some spots. This book was worse than Rainbow Six which was pure manure, because it could have been a good book. Rainbow Six started with the impossible and continued to get more unbelievable on every page. At least this book has some interesting ideas, but his delivery of the material to the public missed by a long shot.
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