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Clear and Present Danger
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Clear and Present Danger
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Clear and Present Danger

Written by Tom Clancy

Narrated by Michael Prichard

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Colombian drug lords, bored with Uncle Sam's hectoring, assassinate the head of the FBI. The message is clear: Bug off!

At what point do these druggies threaten national security? When can a nation act against its enemies? These are questions Jack Ryan must answer because someone has quietly stepped over the line.

Does anyone know who the real enemy is? How much action is too much? Which lines have been crossed? Ryan and his "dark side," a shadowy field officer known only as Mr. Clark, are charged with finding out. They expect danger from without . . . but the danger from within may be the greatest of all!
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Release dateDec 7, 2010
ISBN9780307934581
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Clear and Present Danger
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Tom Clancy

Since the phenomenal worldwide success of ‘‘The Hunt for Red October’, his controversial, ground-breaking first novel, Tom Clancy has become one of the world’s fastest-selling thriller writers. Three of his novels have been made into highly successful films: ‘The Hunt for Red October’, ‘Patriot Games’ and ‘Clear and Present Danger’. He is also the author of several non-fiction books on military subjects, and the co-creator of the ‘Op-Centre’ series. He lives in Maryland, USA.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Dit is een boek uit de Jack Ryan-serie, waarin we niet veel van Jack Ryan meemaken. In mijn ogen zijn de echte helden uit dit boek Clark en Chavez. Boek heeft een langzame start, maar dat is niet vervelend. Clancy besteed veel tijd om dingen en personen te beschrijven. In het verhaal proberen de VS om de import van drugs uit Colombia te bemoeilijken, en hiervoor gaan ze ver.
    De mannen die hun leven wagen om dit uit te voeren worden in de steek gelaten door de mensen die zij vertrouwden.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Jack Ryan AND John Clark playing major roles in the same Tom Clancy book. Very good premise and well executed. Up there with his finest works.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Probably the best of Tom Clancy's novels... which may or may not be an actual recommendation. At the very least, he knows how to maintain narrative tension. I've enjoyed it in the past, but haven't felt the urge to re-read it since I got better at decoding the implied politics - much of which was opaque to me, as a Briton.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I finally got around to reading the book having seen the movie many times. The novel is good, classic Clancy, but my lasting thought was a new-found appreciation for the art of screenwriting. Compression is the most obvious technique you think of when it comes to putting a book on screen, but this is one of the best demonstrations of how playing with fundamental plot and character attributions can make for a movie that achieves greater emotional impact and clarity of character motivation and conflict than the source material.

    The movie's not without its faults of course. It has some of my favourite "How Hollywood Thinks Tech Works" moments. Their attempts to dazzle the audience with high-tech computer mumbo-jumbo are especially laughable in retrospect (look for some woefully unconvincing "computer code" about 90 minutes in, not to mention hacking passwords by guessing birthdate transposition. 133t! ;-)
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    On first reading:This is the first Tom Clancy book I have read, and I absolutely loved it. It's a fantastic book. It does demand all your attention to follow all the characters introduced at different times of the book, but in the end you see how it all intertwines. Clancy is a stickler for detail, but instead of slowing down the events, it provides a good insight to them that allows you to really understand what's going on. I will definitely read more Clancy in the future.On second reading:Just as good as I remember. I really enjoyed this reread of a great book by a masterful storyteller.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was my first foray into the world of Tom Clancy (aside from seeing the film version of "The Hunt for Red October") and I thoroughly enjoyed the tale of high -tech military actions targeted at damaging the dangerous Columbian drug cartel. Clancy knows his politics and doesn't shy away from exploring the ethical considerations of military action and political decision-making. I understood when I picked up this book that I should be prepared for some dated technology, and aside from the obvious improvements in the militarization of digital and computer-based technologies (and perhaps also the use of drones), the story read very realistically and didn't suffer an ounce in its' excitement and intensity. I had no real background of Clancy's Jack Ryan, nor the enigmatic John Clark. I found both to be a little two dimensional, but honestly didn't care very much either. The story was seeped in political intrigue and military tactics - and these elements provided enough jet fuel to propel the story.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is one of Clancy's earlier Ryan books and at this stage he was still producing books of very high quality, with complex inter-woven plots all building steadily to a true climax. The subject matter is no longer the Cold War but drug enforcement, and the book shows up well the utter futility of much of what is done in that area. Recommended. Long (770+ pages) but never boring.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Colombian drug lords, the assassination of American officials, and an intricate pattern of covert operations in South America and at home set off international alarms.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I stopped reading Clancy a long time ago. I did enjoy this and find it to be one of his better books. I liked the Clark character very much. I may have outgrown techno-thrillers or maybe they don't interest me as much since there is no longer a CCCP. I would still recommend this book if this type of thing is to your liking.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Clear and Present Danger details a covert military special-ops mission with the goal of "impacting" the South American Drug trade. In true Clancy fashion, the technical details of the military technology, weapons and aircraft are brilliant, but do start to go stale after the first several hundred pages. The story starts out as quite a page turner and spends quite a bit of time with some of my favorite Clancy characters: Clark and Chavez. I am ambivalent to Jack Ryan, take him or leave him, love him or hate him, he is and always will be the "hero" at the end of the day. Overall this was a good story, though a bit long and drawn out.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Typical Clancy military technothriller, this time battling South American drug lords.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I'll do the same review for all Clancy's novels because they're all pretty much the same. Very long, very detailed, and after a while, very repetitive. If you stop after just a few of his books you'd probably give them 4 or 5 stars, but beyond that they start to grate. Especially where Jack Ryan is involved. I mean, Clancy spends hundreds of pages getting his details just right, the settings perfect etc., then he has Ryan dodging more bullets than James Bond! I finally threw my hands up and surrendered when Ryan becomes President. I can't remember what piece of crap that was in.I've given three stars as a compromise between my reactions when reading my first Clancy (brilliant) and last Clancy (doorstop).
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The second best Clancy book
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Much more detail than the movie (of course). I particularly liked the description of the jungle battles and sneaking around. Very good, believable political / action novel.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Clancy's "Clear and Present Danger" is still a good read, some 18 years after it was first published. Sure, the "War on Drugs" isn't nearly as sexy these days as is the "War on Terror", but it doesn't take a military historian to see the parallels.The story moves on at an unrelenting clip, which is a nice change after the somewhat slower "Cardinal of the Kremlin". I was impressed with how nimble the story is for its girth. Even if you've seen the Harrison Ford film, the book is still worth a read -- there's plenty more excitement and detail, none of which will bog you down like "Red Rabbit".
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Pretty average on my Tom-Clancy-Scale. Or so I thought. It took its time to get going, but then the latter half of the book really did take of. Very good, if it just did not take so long to get going. Quite different from the movie, too. More people, less action from Jack Ryan, obviously a lot deeper than a movie could be. And I finally found out, how Clark and Chavez met for the first time. Everything seems to lead to “Rainbow 6” at the moment….