Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan) | Tom Clancy | Some problems...but good overall

Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan) | Tom Clancy | Clancy Always Asks ... What If?

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	Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan) Tom Clancy Berkley, 1990 - 704 pages average customer review:based on 158 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Some problems...but good overall

Clear And Present Danger starts out with the Coast Guard finding three top American officials killed on their yacht, and the men charged with the murder are from the Cali Drug Cartel in Columbia, so to get back at the Cali Cartel, the President then prepares a secret covert operation of selected Special Forces to bring back justice to the Cartel. Jack Ryan comes back into the picture, with Admiral James Greener dying of cancer, and now he is left in charge as DDI of the CIA, but Jack does not know about the covert operation in Columbia, since they dont want Jack to intervere in the operations. So comes in Domingo Chavez, a East L.A. Chicano who turn his life around by joining the U.S. Army and becoming a Ranger, and now he is the selected person to go to Columbia to fight the drug lords.
Now as they get ready to train for the operation, Jack has NO IDEA what is going on, but he knows that something is not right, and they are keeping quiet about the operation. As they arrive to Columbia, John Clark is running the operation and in charge of the whole thing. Jack and John Clark know each other from rescusing CARDINAL (a U.S. spy in the Kremlin) and bringing him to America where he lives in exile.
Now one of the Cali Cartel's men brings in a woman who works for the CIA and has top secret information about the operation, and finds out that one of the top men who is running the operation is going to Columbia, so his men sets up a ambush and attacks their convoy. Now, the operation gets more intense where they bomb the drug lord's house, and it makes it look like a car bomb. Now, as the Cali Drug Cartel finds out what is going on, they now are hunting them in the thick forests of Columbia thanks to the Columbian military which he has complete control of thanks to money. Jack Ryan then finds out what is going on, and now the covert operation is dead, and they are leaving the men in Columbia on their own. Jack then goes down to Columbia to rescue the men from the hidden dangers the Cali drug cartel has to offer. Now Jack rescues the men, and the President lost the election, and now President Fowler is in office, so now Jack has a new boss, along with a new enemy: Elizabeth Elliot; the National Security Advisor who hates Jack with a passion.

The book starts out slow, but it is still worth a good read to get into.

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Clancy Always Asks ... What If?

What if... the President decided to get serious about the war on drugs? What if he used the military as not only to stop the transport, but also stop the manufacture of drugs?

In this tale, three soldiers do battle. Mr. Clark is the CIA operative who provides intelligence for the military action. Domingo Chavez is a warrior; an infantryman sent under orders to do battle - and ultimately abandoned. Jack Ryan is the new CIA deputy director who figures it all out - and won't abandon faithful soldiers even if it means his life.

Marvelous!

This was my first Tom Clancy and still is my absolute Favorite!

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A Few Problems but Good Over All

This book has its problems, but over all, it's pretty good. I really like Tom Clancy's style of writing; he never goes more than a page or two without spicing it up with dialogue. The story was a kind of slow to get going, although some of that is excusable by the size of the book (half of Clear and Present Danger is a lot more pages than half of your average novel). I like the large number of sub-plots, and during the last hundred pages I could barely put it down. Actually, I finished the book in less than a week.

The main problems I have with this book are the cursing (Tom Clancy really went overboard), and the overuse of the word "bastard". I know it seems strange, but it really distracted me from the story to have people from all over the world using this single word to denote someone who is disliked.

A word of warning - this is a LONG book. A total of 656 pages, it is not a short read.

Like I said above, this is a good book. I have read a number of classics ranging from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to King Rat by James Clavell, but Tom Clancy is my personal favorite. Be sure to read this book.

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