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Title: Character, character, character
Review: Mr. Clancy has apparently forgotten that having characters one can relate to is all important in any fiction writing. In *The Bear and the Dragon* the characters are one-dimensional and raise little empathy with the reader. I really didn't care if anyone lived or died. It was immaterial to me since I had no investment in them. Now, I know technology and suspense are the chief ingredients in a Tom Clancy novel, and that is why I bought the predecessors to this one, but in all the others, I cared about the characters. In the *The Bear and the Dragon* Mr. Clancy seems to have simply dashed this one off. Perhaps he is too involved in too many other projects to really put anything into real writing anymore - even the techno-thriller kind. All-in-all, a bust.
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