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Title: Tedious, vulgar
Review: At over a thousand pages this book is tedious, even for the verbose Clancy. Profanity abounds, as does sex, neither for any useful purpose except to add pages. Three or four hundred pages could be deleted and not affect the story. Even when the story finally gets interesting in the last quarter of the book, it is not up to Tom Clancy standards. The war is too simple and too easy. The American techno-whiz-bang makes the whole thing a "no contest". While American technology really is amazing, to believe that there would be virtually no casualities is not believable. The few American losses appear to have been thrown in at the last minute. We just shot down 60 Chinese airplanes? Hmmm, maybe the good guys should lose a plane, too! Definitely not up to the quality of his early works.
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