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Title: Horrible Waste of a Tree.
Review: "Quantity has a quality all its own" is a phrase repeated often in this book. Clancy seems to have taken it to heart in producing this 1100+ page work. There is a decent story here, but it is buried in hundreds of pages of political, economic, and social commentary that tends to be to the right of Rush Limbaugh.There are at least 5 stories in the book...all of which are strung together with only the weakest of links. The same jokes are repeated endlessly, and while they are funny the 1st time, you tire of them after the 3rd. The familiar cast of Clancy characters is trotted out, some just to make cameo appearances. All these different people might as well be the same as they mostly share the same views and beliefs.There is decent suspense and the mechanical magic we've come to expect from "technothrillers", but only the most diligent reader will reach the payoff. Whatever gift Clancy had earlier in his career seems to have left with "Clear And Present Danger".
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