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| Original Title: | The Bear and the Dragon |
| ISBN: | 0425180964 (ISBN13: 9780425180969) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | John Clark #3, Jack Ryan Universe #11, Jack Ryan Universe (Publication Order) #10 , more |
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| Title | : | The Bear and the Dragon (John Clark #3) |
| Author | : | Tom Clancy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1137 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2001 by Berkley Books (first published August 21st 2000) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Spy Thriller. Espionage |
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Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.In The Bear and the Dragon, the future is very near at hand indeed.
Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; there's a revolution in Liberia; the Asian economy is going down the tubes; and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR--the former KGB--with a rocket-propelled grenade. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the potential assassins. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, or disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here?
Ryan is right. For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops specialist John Clark, to find out the truth of the matter, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions. If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same. If they fail...the consequences will be unspeakable.
Blending the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, razor-sharp suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters, this is Clancy at his best--and there is none better.
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Ratings: 3.83 From 24285 Users | 504 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books The Bear and the Dragon (John Clark #3)
24june2019one of the few books i bought and read hot off the press;okay, let's be honest;more accurately just the one;plus it might have been cold as it was a few months laterof course i plan on rereading this sometime;hopefully soonfirst book i've read that's at least a thousand pages long, wooo!This is easily the worst Clancy book I've read. The only way this gets two stars is thatlike all Clancy booksit's a thrilling ride. I could handle the political propaganda, because books aren't written in an ideological vacuum. And Clancy isn't writing in a real world, either. It's a world where the president gets to unilaterally go to war whenever he wants and one where countries are clearly divided into good and evil. It's an uncomplicated world that's fun for novels and completely irrelevant
I didn't get very far in this book. I read just a couple chapters- enough to see that swearing was going to be commonplace.I stopped reading because of that. If I want to hear the F-word, I can just come to school and not tell the kids to knock it off... Too bad- the story was very promising. I was excited for the exciting read.
Reading The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy made me wish that countries would help each other and stop fighting and betraying one another. The book is based off a plot by the communist Chinese government to invade Siberia and take their natural resources, especially the gold and oil hidden well under its surface. America also gets involved and attack Chinas bridges to slow down travel of intelligence in the country. The Chinese then launch missiles at Washington DC when they see that the US
This is something of a mash of previous Clancy plots with 600 extra pages thrown in for good measure. China, who is facing a major economic problem ( Red Storm Rising ), decides to start a war with Russia. The Chinese are lead by a cadre of arrogant, out of touch oligarchs ( Debt of Honor ) who are unable to see that they are in over their heads. This culminates in the US coming to Russia's aid, where they wreck all comers (Just about every Clancy book ever), and the Chinese attempting to nuke a
What a letdown. A fairly ridiculous story that alternates racism, bad prognostication and great men's bathroom habits; this is where Tom Clancy leaves off in the Jack Ryan saga. What do we learn from this book? That Tom Clancy guessed wrong about who the world's next threat would be (betting on China), that this probably stems from a racist attitude towards Asians (which started with his evil Japanese, continuing with his evil Chinese for the third time), and that great men take no action until
This book was a bit of a mess. I love the Jack Ryan character, and Tom Clancy knows how to build slow momentum towards a big climax. However, much of this book was just boring, patently racist, and disturbing in its inability to pull the whole story together with a human dimension in the end. The end is pretty good as an outline of plot. but it lacks all the great dynamics that can come together when tension has been resolved or when a big bad thing has happened. It's only because of the last
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