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Title: Standard Clancy Stuff
Review: Tom Clancy has provided yet another tale. Same thing different book. It reads well, but is unsatisfying overall - no new ground is being broken here. His best is still _Red Storm Rising_. His characters are starting to appear similar to those in Ludlum's sequels: older, but still trying to be the original characters they once were. The characters have not evolved. A new set of characters, ones who haven't had a chance yet in Clancy's tired realm, might breathe new life into the world. But he continues to use the same names, the same mannerisms, the same threads. The tale might be better told from the perspective of John Clark's lieutenant, Dingo Chavez, and only from there. We shifted from Ryan to Clark, now let's shift from Clark to someone new. An evolution, shall we say.
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