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Title: Clancy has lost his touch
Review: This is a real third rate book - implausible plot, improbably perfect good guys, and unbelievably evil bad guys. The political intrigue, careful attention to technical details, and suspenseful plots of some of Clancy's earlier books don't appear in this volume. Suspense in the story is soon quashed because the good guys are absolutely perfect and flawless - nothing they attempt ever fails in any respect. Have a serious hostage situations? No problem - sneak in, shoot all the bad guys, save all the hostages - repeat, rinse. There is no attempt to keep the bad guys in character. Need to kill off a mild mannered laboratory researcher in order to tie up some lose ends in your store? - its easy, just have him grab a rifle and charge out to shoot at the good guys. I think I've read my last Clancy novel.
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