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Title: Tom: Find a good editor -- SOON!
Review: This is an example of a good first draft. TC needs to find a good editor and streamline the story. B&G is at least 200 pages too long. The dialog is trite and adolescent...not worthy of the adults in the story. If TC wants to advance his political agenda, he should involve himself in politics. But to make his characters his voice is boring after awhile, and ultimately useless, because I skip over those parts. The Jack Ryan of Red October would slap Jack Ryan of B&G for whining so much.It would serve a better purpose to write 200-300 pages of an encyclopedia of characters and events. I didn't have the luxury of re-reading the last five TC books to prepare for B&G, so I missed out on some of the references. At the very least, use a few pages of the current novel to tell us where and how we first met these characters.The last 200 pages -- the battle -- are standard, enjoyable, Clancy. If you can survive the first 800 pages, then you have earned your treat.
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