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Title: Disappointing
Review: Let's start with a disclaimer - I am a huge Clancy fan. Debt of Honor was one of the best books I've ever read. I thought Cardinal of the Kremlin was the best espionage novel I'd ever seen.So, here's the new Clancy novel. It's huge, but that only makes me anticipate it more. More thrills, more great technology, etc.After finishing it, all I can say is - what a disappointment. The Prolouge is vintage Clancy - greatness! From there, it gets progressively slower and more implausible. The bad guys never seemed as horrifying as I think Mr. Clancy intended. The good guys are a little too super-human. And the last 150 pages made me feel completely ripped off. I could not believe the magnitude of Clancy's cop-out.Previous Clancy misfires (most notably, Sum of All Fears) were still pretty good, just not up to the usual Clancy standard. Rainbow Six is just bad. Please, Tom, take a few years off and come back with stories that live up to your earlier great works!
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