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Title: Exhuming McCarthy
Review: While Tom Clancy definitely has got all the numbers present for another over-the-top action novel, this is all paint-by-the-numbers ... And though most of his books have had the scent of the Red Scare in them, this book reeks of it. It reads at times like some sort of late '50s pamphlet, save that it's over 700 pgs. long, but the real question is why? Why take a story brimming with all sorts of intrigue, and pile on this unnecessary, and despite the author's attempts, wholly irrelevant 'Gee, Stalin was bad' material - the amount of it, and sacrifices of flow and plot to insert it are, quite simply, baffling. I've found watching the Jack Van Impe show to be much mroe rewarding than this.
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