by John MacDonald, Tom Clancy
Back in the 1990s, one of the authors I really enjoyed was Tom Clancy. His novels offered entertaining descriptions of hypothetical clashes between the great powers of the world. most of them involving his alter ego Jack Ryan, the kind of person Clancy wanted to be (and later, John Clark, alter ego ...
Not sure how to rate this. The last 100 pages or so, when the battle with Japan happens, totally rocks. The fall of Wall Street and the 700 pages of build up, to allow Japan to attack the US, totally overkill that dampened my enjoyment of the book.
Jack Ryan jumps the shark, or, the author is too enamored of his creation to constrain him in any way.I like the pack man on the cover, though.
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