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Title: Predictable politics a disappointment
Review: I've got all of Clancy's Jack Ryan books and have enjoyed mostof them.However, I'm TIRED of Clancy's politics. They can't even becalled right wing - more like blindly pro-government. Clancyis given to using his books as anti-encryption propaganda,presumably on the theory that the FBI and other governmentagencies are as honorable and professional as the agents in hisbooks (and there was no one else trying to read unencryptedemail).It'd be nice if it was so. Unfortunately, one incident in thislatest book was so outrageous as to be macabre: after aChinese policeman shoots a priest holding a newborn infant,a character comments that in the US law enforcement officersdon't shoot people holding babies. Apparently he has neverheard of Ruby Ridge.The Bear and the Dragon was an OK if predictable Summer read.I hope that Clancy eventually aims for a higher goal.
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