Tom Clancy Books

Haven't Had time to read it Yet. Book was new so it is in very good contition

I am a great fan of Tom Clancy. I just cannot believe he wrote this. Truly terrible. In the bin.

gave me the edge to beat the game but could have had a lot more info.

I used Prima's guide for Ghost Recon: Island Thunder and found it an invaluable resource in getting through the tough spots of that game. So naturally when I picked up Advanced Warfighter for Xbox, I got the Prima guide too.

What a disappointment. There is absolutely no useful information contained in this book to help you get through the game. None. How the authors manage to ramble on and on for dozens of pages with dozens of pretty screen shots and tell you nothing useful is beyond me.

Of course, I can only speak confidently of my experience with the Xbox portions of this guide. Maybe if you have an Xbox 360, that portion of the guide actually is helpful (that wouldn't surprise me). My recommendation for Xbox players is to enjoy GRAW (it's awesome) but don't bother with the guide. Xbox 360 players, judge for yourselves.

Now that Jack Sr is put out to pasture Clancey tries to introduce Jack, JR. AN ok book but time to put the franchise to rest and call it a day.

This was an interesting book with a disturbing subject. Not his best work and tended to get bogged down in descriptions but still a page-turner, which I found hard to put down.

I have read all of the author's fiction books (13). I am surprised that the book was only fair and the closest in rating to this was the one before it, Red Rabbit (good). Right there that shows that his books have been going downhill. I do not like to read reviews before I open a book because I am going to read it anyway, but for some reason I did look at the reviews. Most of the reviewers who gave it a fair or lower rating were right on. It was as if he had a contract with the publisher to do one more Jack Ryan book and he and he was in a hurry to get it done with no good material. One problem is that Jack Ryan is just a small part of the book and the biggest roles were his son and 2 nephews, who were boring to average. The other problem is that he wrote this book as if his heart was not in it. If that is the case then I am happy he has not written any more fiction books. I guess he would rather write about submarines, tanks, helicopters and carriers. Well, if that is the case, good luck Mr. Clancy. Getting back to the chracters in the book. I tried very hard to really enjoy the son and nephews but it was just too, too far fetched. I am going to end it now because the book was so disappointing. Dissappoint is what happens when fans respect the author and the author comes up with a bomb. I will still look to see if he has written any more fiction. I have not given up entirely on Mr. Clancy.

I enjoyed this book because I was able to connect with the characters in the book. I liked the bothers and "Junior" who I was able to really see myself playing out one of those fasinating roles. This is why I think I liked the book so much more than many reviews out there.

The only downfall to this book is that it ended to abruptly. All of a suddend everyone joins forces and become one quick killing machine...lights out, story over. I was really hoping, as were other readers, that Tom would come out with another book to start a series for Jack and the brothers.....i need the sequiel....

...and apparently TC didn't know where to end.

I have read all of his fiction work and found this to be the worst. I bought it when it first came out and managed at the time to only get 90 or so pages into it before setting it down. Last week I found it again and read it all the way through, but it wasn't easy.

The characters were dry, insipid, and banal. Junior is an insufferable wannabe with his constant "Roger that"'s and "Aye, Aye"'s. There is NO WAY anyone with his education -- regardless of upbringing -- would talk like that unless they had spent time in the armed services. He was distractingly unrealistic. I also have a hard time believing that, given the development of Jack Sr. over the years that he would have bought his son both a slick convertible and an H2. Jack was always pushing for his kids to be brought up as normal as everyone else as evidenced by Jr. having to work every summer growing up.

The twins were impossible to discern from one another due to the addition of nicknames that had absolutely nothing to do with their real names and had no relation to their previous, um, "development" as characters. If TC wanted to give them nicknames, there is nothing wrong with Dom for Dominic and Bri for Brian. That way I might have been able to tell who was who because they had the same personality (such as it was). And there is no way that these guys both drive Mercedes -- and FBI agent and a Marine? Come on.

The low point of the dialog comes when one of the twins (I have no idea which) asks Jr. "Did you know anyone who got wasted?" in reference to 9/11. My jaw dropped. I don't care how tough a guy you are or how close you may be to your relatives and friends, but no one would ever ask that question in those words. No. One. I can only imagine what would happen to someone who tried to do this either in NYC or across the river here at the Pentagon. At least a semi-permanent limp and likely a broken face.

The editing (or lack thereof) was beyond my comprehension. There's only so many times you can repeat yourself, Tom. I understand that it is likely I have a first edition, or at least I hope I do, but the glaring grammatical errors, wrong words, characters appearing in a setting mid-paragraph as though they were always there, and the change in targets for the terrorists were just too much. Especially the change in targets. They went from going after Sacramento to attacking Provo, Utah. It was even mentioned that two of the targets were "provincial capitals" -- those being Sacramento and Des Moines. But a few pages later with no explanation then or later that the attack out west was in Provo. This is something a minor league editor should catch.

That being said, the book should have been longer -- but only to actually tell the whole damn story. Why didn't the cartel do something? Anything? Either develop that into part of the story or take it out. There were other ways to get across the U.S. border without them. If the cartel is going to be involved, they have to be an actual part of the story and sadly they weren't.

The anachronisms have been mentioned by others (the twins referencing Maureen O'Hara) and they actually made me stop reading and say "What??!!?" out-loud.

My favorite line of the book, which should NEVER have been printed was, "The sun rose promtly at dawn." WTF?? When else shoud it rise, Tom?

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+.

It is a shame no stars is not an option for rating. It would appear Clancy was attempting to write the screenplay of another Jack Ryan movie with this work.

With the high tension that was rampant between NATO and the Warsaw Pact during this time period, there was plenty of background to place many of the characters from his other books. And I had to laugh at Clancy's buildup of Ed Foley and the New York Times reporter, yet there was no further mention of this later in Foley's career. The NYT would have never lived down a sleeper CIA agent on their reporter staff.

Instead, we get a plodding story that is lacking virtually everything Clancy had become well known for.

...and it only gets worse with the TEETH OF THE TIGER.

The Ryan saga goes back in time. Clancy as usual gets long winded and seems to gt tired of the story by delivering a sub par ending. Overall a bit disappointing.

Jack Ryan's evolution has followed that of the author. In the earlier books Jack Ryan was a well intentioned, if reluctant, hero who had a simple rubric for determining right from wrong. As Tom Clancy has "evolved" from a fiction writer to a "personality" we have seen Jack Ryan go from a simple CIA analyst to President of the free world. Along the way he became a foul mouthed, boorish individual who bases his decisions on Catholic doctrine and conservative dogma. I guess this is what happens when the author thinks people actually care what he thinks. This reader doesn't.

The saddest thing about this book is the depiction of Cathy Ryan. She once was depicted as a classy lady. Now she is a nasty individual who would easy (and fairly) characterized by the use of the "b" or "c" word. The only good thing about the book is her character disappeared half way through. It was one half too many.

My days of feeding Clancy's ego are over. He can get rich off other people who think what he says is important. He should take some lessons from John Grisham and build baseball fields in needy communities. And most importantly, keep his opinions to himself.

This has to be the most turgid, dull, repetitive pile of absolute tosh I have read in years. Nothing more than a 600 page propaganda leaflet for the Republican Party, the US military industrial complex, privatised medicine, the Catholic church and whatever else Tom Clancy supports, it's a painful read that seems to never end.

Your mind will bend as you read Clancy's utterly lame attempts at mundane and repetitive dialog between people eating breakfast, drinking coffee and riding on trains and in taxis.

Your eyes will roll at each stab at the British healthcare system, which is "socialized medicine" for those of you reading in the United States. You might think Clancy hates the concept as much as he clearly hates Communists.

Everything else about Britain and the "Brits", meanwhile, he seems to love in an offensively patronising and condescending manner that will make you gag. Those "Brits" seem all to be ripped from central casting in their accents, actions, and universal love of liquid lunches. All appear to be ex-British military and most have one syllable names, in a reassuringly working class, honest guvna' fashion.

You will also squirm every time you read the word "pshrink", or "cutter", or "driver". You will wonder why you never hear people in real life with such limited vocabularies as the characters in his books. How bored you will be as you read again and again about those "eye cutters" from "Hopkins" who worked on Suslov's eyes under the direction of token Jewish man, Bernie Katz.

You will also shudder each time you are clumsily reminded that the Soviets have unwittingly given the code "666" to a plot to kill the Pope.

You will want to be sick every time Jack Ryan's tastes in coffee are mentioned, and when you are reminded how unbelievably smart he is to recognize that an up and coming company called Starbucks will be a huge success. You will also wonder where Ryan's Starbucks obsession was when he was chasing the Red October around the Atlantic and doing battle with drug cartels in Central America.

You will also find yourself wishing Jack Ryan hadn't survived that damn helicopter crash because you are so fed up of reading about it and how much he hates flying, a characteristic he apparently shares with B.A. Baracus. You almost start to hope someone would feed Ryan a hamburger in a brown paper bag and a carton of milk before he gets on a plane so he's not conscious to whine about it.

In using the fear-of-flying device, Clancy clearly wants us to believe that Ryan, a multi-millionaire who has killed IRA terrorists, invested in Starbucks in the early 80s, arrested a Bulgarian assasin, helped capture a Soviet ballistic missile submarine, and become President of the United States has at least one weakness that makes him at least somewhat the everyman among us.

Apart from the atrocious errors in history already mentioned (Clancy must have thought himself oh-so-clever to keep mentioning that young short stop Cal Ripken and hoped we would think him clever for it), you will wonder how an assasination attempt in 1981 happened after the 1982 Falklands War.

Finally, you will wonder what the heck ever happened to Tom Clancy, when exactly the point in time was that his ego overtook his limited writing skills and why exactly he thinks smart people will part with good money to read bad books with his name on them.

Fast paced page turner. Even passes the acid test...as good the second and third time read as it was the first!

Looks like a game I'd try out, only problem is: Unless you are in the age of dinasours you cant. This game operates on Windows 95 "Only"

Item was exactly as described and was sent out right away. Would buy from seller again.

First of all, I didn't realize that the book was based on a video game...a recipe for disaster. Don't buy the book, not even close to par for Clancy.....

I realize that this "novel" was written as a companion to a video game, but if you're going to write something and put your name on it, it should be better than this. The "story" is that the Chinese have invaded some contested islands in the South China Sea. The U.S. gets involved and the Chinese declare war on the U.S. A submarine, the Cheyenne, is sent to the area. What follows are a dozen or so scenarios that a U.S submarine might encounter in this setup. However, there is no character development nor depth to the story. The American sub encounters a Chinese sub and sinks it. Then it encounters 2 subs and sinks them and so on and so on. This one American sub is destroying the entire Chinese navy single handedly. There is no suspense at all as the Cheyenne is never in any danger. Everything it does works, nothing the Chinese do matters. Their equipment is inferior, their submariners are inferior. This book is very repetitive with no suspense, no real plot and no believability. There is an overabundance of technical data about the submarines and their weapons which makes for very boring reading. I don't really know what the point of this book was.

This BOT is easy to listen to not to deep. A good one for driving in traffic where you can't fully concentrate.

a great book even thought a terribloe ending
gets your blood flowing everywhere. Great book for young adults. Great book for kids like me. Great bookj for you. Great book for your dad. Great book for your mom. Great book for your aunt. Great book for your uncle. Great book for your dog.

This book had Tom Clancy's name on it. However, it did not have the look or feel of a Clancy novel.

The story was marginally developed. The conclusion was not worth reading the book for.

Ok..to make this short and sweet...this book is so bad that It coulden't hold my attention for the first 50 pages..yeah I gave it some time..it was so confusing and made no sense. I had to do a book report and had to make up or emphasis certain parts that I did read to make it seem like I did. I would have not given a star if there was that choice.

I have read every book Written or inspired by Tom Clancy up to the Power Play's series. I have been horribly dissapointed by this series and specifically with Ruthless.com The plot is underdeveloped and the characters are terribly introduced and explained. It seems as if the authors tried to cram all of the intrigue of a Clancy book into 400 pages, which if you are a true clancy fan you know his usually run into 600-700 pages. If this book were given the attention it needs on the characters and plot then it would be an excelent read. Unfortunately as it stands this book is absolutely pitiful. I had to force myself to finish it by telling myself it would get better in the next chapter. Don't read this.....

Spanish politics and shooting.

The Op-Center is a semi-independent agency that gets to do some dirty, dangerous work.

This time it involves getting mixed up in Spanish politics, virus, and terrorism, leading to a stressful time for all, as it doesn't take long for an assassination to happen.

Just an ok thriller type book is all.

This is the first TC's book I read and maybe I'll give him a second chance. But someone can tell me where's the plot? Spain is willing to have an upheaval, so what? Nobody there want the CIA involved so they make some kind of gore war. I've had read awfully better books than this one.

Query: Did the CIA thwarted a revolution in Spain?

I have read one previous Tom Clancy book, Red Storm Rising, and I was impressed. Well written and well detailed book. This is not the case with Balance of Power. The blame, then, must be with the other author, Steve Pieczenik. From the beginning when I saw another author I wondered if Clancy played more of a role than his name, and I don't think that he did. This is yet another case of a book that was written to capitalize on Clancy's name.

The book is shallow and not too deep. One chapter will present a situation, and the next chapter is the "enemy" or opposing force figuring out what just happened. Powerful men seek to overthrow the government with force and economic pressure. Break. The next chapter Op Center comes to the same conclusion that the previous chapter revealed. So there is no development, no discovery for the reader.

On the flip side it was fast paced and it kept me reading. I won't be like the other Spanish reviewers and claim how badly Clancy missed the Spanish situation. It is a work of fiction! Of course he is going to miss the true picture of the climate of Spain if he is to make the book do as he wants. So, no, I don't rate this off of that.

So that leaves the merit of the book. Fast paced fun read, albeit not too deep or complexly intertwined. It was good to imagine the undercover Striker team and their effectiveness. But, alas, this is nothing more than another author capitalizing on Clancy's name. Perhaps Clancy was consulted, or the whole series is his idea, but he doesn't seem to have written this one. In fact, other Op Center books are written by Pieczenik and when you search them they come up under his name and not Clancy. That doesn't make him a bad author, just not the complex author that we have come to respect in Clancy.

2.75 stars.

I was astonished how a well-reputed researcher as Tom Clancy could just mess up so bad when talking about the character of the Spaniards and political scene of Spain. It is a so respectless towards any Spanish speaking person, not only Spaniards. Plus, it shows no knowledge or interest at all on our country. American novelists should create fantastic countries that fit their misconcepts and desires, like Banania, Antiamerica or whatever. Check out "Digital fortress" by Dan Brown or the movie "Mission : Impossible 2" by John Woo. Exactly the same disdain.

As a Catalan I can say the author has no idea about the "ethnics" groups living in the Spanish State. There's no problems between castilians and andalusians, catalans are no "the owners" of Spain, the names are not credible...well there are so many mistakes (even the Spanish words are not well written)that is difficult to keep reading trying to ignore them.

YOU COULD LIKE THE BOOK (OR NOT) BUT FORGET ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR.... HE HAS NO IDEA ABOUT THE "SCENARIO" HE HAS USED.

Joan
Catalonia

This series of POWER PLAYS created by Tom Clancy and Martin Greenburg include Ruthless. com, Politika, Wild Card, Cutting Edge, Zero Hour, and Cold War. SHADOW WATCH is based on an interactive computer game by Red Storm, woned by Tom Clancy, Virtus Corp. and Pearson plc. The cover of this one has the "all-seeing eye" blown from the top of the pyramid used in the movie 'National Treasure' as a space shuttle.

Orion, an international space station had been developed, and on April 15, 2001 (this novel was printed in 1999),a spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, was sabotaged a few seconds before lift-off. The disaster was the death of the mission commander, Jim, as it exploded and burned. This had been achieved by terrorists who wanted to install an electromagnetic pulse generator which was capable of destroying major American cities from space.

Mr. Clancy has written man other books including RED STORM RISING, WITHOUT REMORSE, THE TEETH OF THE TIGER, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER, PATRIOT GAMES and series called OP-CENTER AND one featuring Jack Ryan. His non-fiction books include SUBMARINE, MARINE, CARRIER, AIRBORNE, FIGHTER WING, and ARMORED CALVARY.

As this is the first Tom Clancy read, although I have several movies based on his books, suck as The Hunt for the Red October, Patriot Games, and Clear and Present Danger.

Although I thought his writing was good and was a cliff-hanger like feeling throughout the book, as I read other reviews I guess his other books must have been alot better.

Anyways some of the sub-plots were well written and were interesting (urchin diving with Tom Ricci), they only showed he was tough and the man for the job, but took to many pages to show it. Also the train wreck took to long to explain with insignificant people who just died in the end. It was important to the fact that the Terroists weapon was ready for use, but the extant to the wreck was explained was un-necessary.

The whole part in Russia where the guerrilas buy the HMD or whatever is still kind of hazy as to what actually happened.

This was a 3 hour book on tape and after being regaled for more than half an hour with all of the details of a battle in which I neither knew who was fighting or why they were fighting I decided that I'd had enough.

These Clancy rip-off story lines only go to show that Clancy has a special talent for developing characters when he actually writes the books. It also shows that he has a special talent for soaking up the cash wherever he can. What a con - let Clancy creates the characters and let hacks write the books for him!

Please, don't waste your time!

I bought the Abridged CD version. There were no tracks on the CD. Therefore, if you stopped listening, you would have to search the entire CD to determine where you left off. A 70 minute disk needs several breaks.

The story was abridged. Whoever did the production should look for another job. The first third of the novel was almost impossible to comprehend. I read/listen to approximately 5 books per week. This one was one of the worst editing jobs I have come across.

The story itself was a major reach. There was little or no character development.

I will not waste my time on any more series inspired books by Clancy.

Well, this book wasn't terrible, but it could have been much better. Definately doesn't live up to Politika or Ruthless.com, let alone the plethera of other Clancy novels. The biggest problem I had with this book was the fact that the characters never seemed to get their act together. They spent all but the last 60 or so pages of the book doing almost nothing. It seemed like for the first 250-300 pages, maybe two hours had passed in the world. To make matters worse, the ending wasn't even very glorious, for lack of a better word. It was like the good guys foil the plot, and a low monotonous "yay" murmers from the audience. An entire chapter was also spent describing a train wreck that should have been summed up in about 3 paragraphs tops. He basically described a couple hundred innocent people dying, and it had no real impact on the story WHAT-SO-EVER.

I don't really know much about how Clancy is doing buisness, but I see people saying he fathered the series and sold it out to other authors. All I have to say is that it doesn't speak very highly of Clancy as an author to let authors nobody has heard of write books in his name and not even check to see if they're on par with his original works. I found it disappointing overall.

However, if you've never read any Clancy novels, the Powerplay series might be a good one to start out on. You may expierence disappointment from Politika and Ruthless to Shadow Watch and other books in the series, but you definately won't be disappointed when you start reading other Clancy novels like Without Remorse and Clear and Present Danger.

The plot setup takes too long to get a good mystery or combat scenario (which is part mystery, as in _Hunt for Red October_) going. What results then is a sick daytime TV-style romp through the lives and drama of these characters, but it's halfhearted, as are the few combat scenes. The technique of using multiple characters to tell a story falls flat. I would not recommend this book to anyone.

I tried to listen to an audio tape and found myself repeatedly losing interest. Half way through I returned the tape to the library.

Quite possibly the worst book I've ever read. The only reason I read it was a twenty hour flight with no other options. The french quotes are the worst though, they make no sense and are misspelled and grammatically abysmal. Stay away at all cost!

This is one of the worst books I have ever read. I enjoy reading Tom Clancy and perhaps that is why I saw the book all the way to the end. The book starts off slow and then ends way to quickly. I had gotten 2/3 through the book when I read the back cover and discovered that none of that had happened yet.
I would not recommend this book to anyone. It is poorly written and is comparable to an extremely low budget film.

This book is definitely one of the two worst Clancy books I have ever read, maybe even of all of the books I have ever read. It takes about half of the book to get to any real action except for the starting material. About the first half of the book is worthless material that almost makes you forget whether the starst of the book was really in this book or not.
As another reviewer said, the kidnapping of Gordian's daughter (mentioned on the back cover of the book) Does not happen until near the end of the book. In fact, I checked and it happens at almost exactly the 4/5 point.
At one point in the book, there is a long section about the group in Africa, yet after that the people are almost never mentioned.
Also, once the kidnapping takes place, the kidnappers are found rather quickly. You would think that they would take some precautions to at least delay being found. But really, what smart criminal would let the dog breeder/seller come right to his hideout? Give me a break!
I would definitely not recommend this book. It is trash and not worth your time. Try "Power Plays; Cold War" it is not to bad of a book.

Book did not disappoint. Have followed the Net Force series from beginning and this was in line with previous ones.

Yes, this book has Tom Clancy's name splashed all over it. No, it's not written by Clancy; rather, Steve Perry and Larry Segriff penned it. No doubt many readers are put off by this and do not understand just how Clancy and Steve Piecenick could "create" the Net Force series books but not write them.

That, though, is not my beef. My gripes are with the book itself. Where to begin?

The book begins with an interesting premise- what if someone started a virtual nation-state, one that is not located on any landmass? What sort of havoc might this play with politics and governance? All sorts of mischief might arise. For example, a person living in, say, Chicago or Los Angeles, could ditch his U.S. citizenship and become a citizen of Cyber Nation, thereby avoiding taxes on his income.

Sadly, the interesting possibilities are not played out. We get a predictable good guy vs. bad guys plot, the turns of which the reader can see coming far in advance.

Moreover, I wasn't expecting the The Brothers Karamazov, but, gadzooks, this book's characters are cardboard cut outs. Many of them are ludicrously over-achieving, like the lobbyist who graduated first in her class, is a scratch golfer, drop dead gorgeous, etc., etc., etc. The reader may find it really hard to care whether they lived or died or simply disappeared from the plot.

Especially frustrating is the tempo of the book. It's broken again and again by lengthy descriptions of the technical specifications of this or that gun or computer device. (Similarly, an enormous number of pages are squandered in the depiction of Jay Gridley, a computer sleuth, using absurdly far-fetched virtual reality scenarios as a vehicle for tracking down hackers and crooks.) This makes it a real struggle to keep from skipping the many pages globbed with gun-fetishising or geeky details.

Finally, in places the book drops in brand names (like Veuve Clicquot) for no apparent reason. The reader can't help wondering, "Are these paid product placements?"

In summation, then, this is not "The Cardinal of the Kremlin" or "The Sum of All Fears." It's a second rate slap-dish techno-thriller that isn't particularly thrilling.

After hearing about Tom Clancy's newest business venture with the Net Force series, I needed to check it out for myself. Unfortunately it is not very good.

I am a huge Tom Clancy fan, not only his early books but his other good works, like minority owner of the Baltimore Orioles. Maybe I missed something by starting in the middle of the series with State of War, which is apparently #7 in the line. You would think they would do better in their seventh attempt at this.

Here is the trite premise. A super-secret government agency investigates cyber-bad guys, employing a combination of high-tech and old-school methods. Their antagonist here is a super-genius lawyer/doctor/businessman/criminal much like the Christopher Walken character in the (Roger Moore) Bond movie, although I dont think our guy here owes his condition to Nazi experimentation.

The Net Force gang is a random collection of geeks, working wives, retired military officers, martial arts and shooting trainers, and some guy having a mid-life crisis. The story bounces from one unexplained location to the next, with the bad guys doing crimes that even they dont understand the reason for. None of the story lines get resolved, but maybe they are saving that for the next 50 of these books.

An interesting twist is that in the future (this is set in 2010), computer programmers will spend their time building elaborate virtual reality scenarios to entertain themselves as they work. Clearly better than just writing code, generating reports, or manipulating unfriendly databases.

Actually they are a few well-thought out views on technology hidden in here. For example, we often think that crime will be solved by DNA and electronic traces. Clancy and friends indicate that the bad guys will find ways around that, so crime is solved by data base analysis, e.g. facial recognition software analyzing every surveillance video in the world. For example, our anatagonist uses software that tells him when databases are being searched to information on his associates. Cell phones are so cheap that they are bought with cash and disposed after one use, to leave no trace.

I recommend dusting off Red Storm Rising or Cardinal of the Kremlin instead of kicking around this series.

There are so many concepts in this book that don't play well. The worst is that a virtual reality approach to interacting across networks could keep up with the speed of computer actions. The ending makes no sense and the antagonist just loses all his supposed intelligence and cunning near the end of the book.
This book (NOT by Clancy) lacks Clancy's technical expertise and realistic approach to suspense and action.

This is, simply put, one of the worst books I have ever read. The book lacked substance and interest. The characters were unrealistic and the story line was completely predictable. At times I felt that the book was written by "Tim the Toolman Taylor" -- especially when the author named and then described weapons in vivid detail -- argh...argh...argh.

I finished the book (I thought it might get better...it didn't) and walked away thinking that Clancy should revoke the rights to anyone else writing on his behalf.