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Title: A struggle to get to the end...
Review: "The Bear and The Dragon" doesn't even come close to "Executive Orders". For the first 24 chapters or so, you wonder when the story will finally take off, but it just goes on and on and on in low gear. I actually wondered if Clancy is paid by the page, or if there is some minimum number of pages to a book in his contract... If you actually get through the first half to two-thirds of the book, the rest is ok. I didn't expect the book to be as good as "Executive Orders", but I was still disappointed. Where EO was so captivating it almost read itself, with TBATD it was a struggle to get to the end.
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