Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan) | Tom Clancy | Very Good character driven novel

Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan) | Tom Clancy | My least favorite Jack Ryan

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	Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan) Tom Clancy Berkley, 2003 - 656 pages average customer review:based on 614 reviews view larger image
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Jack Ryan's first days with the CIA may be the Pope's last days alive.

Very Good character driven novel

This novel is like "Cardinal of the Kremlin" a character based novel, and this one is based off an actual event. John Ryan and the Foley's have to stop an assassination by the Russians.

The Foley's move to Russia and Jack is starting his career in the CIA. Clancy is introducing his main characters all over again and showing how they got started and how the Foley's got to Russia, when we meet them again in Cardina, as main characters.

Even though this is a Ryan Novel, this as well as Cardinal, should be Foley's novel. They are the real main characters and the events surround them more than they do Jack Ryan. I think Clancy tried to hard to insert Ryan into both novels. That aside, the two novels are Clancy's best character driven novels.

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My least favorite Jack Ryan

This is one of the earlier books in the Jack Ryan enterprise. It starts off pretty slow and does not really take off like many of the others. Jack and Cathy Ryan have just moved to London with Sally and Jack Jr. The Foleys, Ed, Pat and Little Ed, have just started in Moscow. The Russians are crazy as ever and want to kill the Pope. A Russian communications expert gets a case of morals and wants to try and save the Pope. I should not say much more, or I will ruin the best part. I have read many Clancy's and this would not be in my top 5 but it does put a few things together so I am glad that I read it. I guess I would give it a C+.

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