content: I give. After taking 1028 pages to tell a 350 page story, I wave the white flag of surrender. Clancy clearly doesn't trust his reader base to remember characters from one book to the next. Hence, ever expanding tomes of work. We all know who Ryan is and how he got there. We Jackson, the Foleys, Sandbox and the rest. Why retell all their stories. There was a great story buried in this novel. They say the devil is in the detail and Clancy shows us hell. The only reason I finished the book was to write this review. I'd give it a zero but not an option. Isn't he supposed to have an editor to save him from himself?