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Title: A Clancy Disappointment
Review: Clancy answered Martin Greenberg in The Tom Clancy Companion that he didn't think The Hunt for the Red October would sell because "the book didn't have any sex in it."Clancy proved with the subsequent nine books that he could sell books without sex in them. Yes, there was a section in Executive Orders that very strongly implied Cathy and Jack Ryan going to bed to have sex, but the passage was minimal and was between a husband and wife.In his latest book, Clancy has stooped to the level of discussing the sexual affairs between the main character, Chet Nomuri, and his information source. It's the type of ploy I would expect from a cheap romance novel, but not from Clancy.Clancy continues to weave multiple subplots into a good story, but it's unfortunate he felt compelled to include such a strong sexual element in The Bear and the Dragon.
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