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Title: Pretty poor
Review: Tom Clancy was once my favorite author (Red Storm Rising is one of the best novels I've read). I have all his books.But ... I read this book for the military bits and the action sequences and actually skipped over much of the dialogue. Jack Ryan, John Clark and Ding Chavez are all mirror images of each other. They all think, talk and act the same. Clancy has a shocking lack of ability to create anything other than 1 dimensional, wooden leading characters. Popov was the only interesting guy.I ended up hoping that the bio-terrorists WOULD succeed. That would have been much more fun.Final point: why does every British character have to say 'Quite' or 'Quite so' in every conversation???I'll keep buying the books, but I'll be treating them more as magazine articles than novels. And I thought I saw light at the end of the tunnel when I read Exectuive Orders.By the way, I echo other comments about reading 'Blackhawk Down' - excellent.
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