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Title: Clancy in his twilight...
Review: If someone had attended a creative writing course and was given an assignment to write a 'Clancy-esque' military-thriller but had then decided to turn it into a parody or 'literary-caricature', they would have ended up with 'The Bear and the Dragon'. It was ponderous, predictable and way too long. It took me less than a week to finish my library copy but then I would speed read past the tedious sections (which was frequent). Eric Harry did a much better treatment of the subject in either 'Arc Light' or 'Protect and Defend' and he went so far as to actually take out DC with a nuke in the first one, something that I think most readers were rooting for especially after Ryan does his idiotic Clint Eastwood routine with the aegis cruiser as the warheads are falling. Also, Clancy has quite a set of double standards considering that he broke up his marriage through infidelity. I guess his Ryan universe is a 'do what I say, not what I do' kind of place.
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