Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy

I guess I'm not a great fan of Clancy. I loved Red Storm Rising though,because of it's abundance of military knowledge, action, suspense and plot. I mean that is a book that has a huge amount of content and justifies being 1000 pages long. But all of his other books, including CAPD are 250 page novels expanded with boring tedious detail. Someone should go to his books cut out all the needless blurb and release it. I would buy it as it's clear there is a good plot at work, but following it is like reading through treacle. ...  Read the complete review

After playing Rainbow 6 the game I bought the book and read it, I completely enjoyed it. I was describing the book to my father and he told me about the Characters of Clark and Chavez that appear in some of the other works by Clancy, so off into the attic I went to find the books and I am annoyed that I have not read this book before as it is a most excellent book that finds you gripped with anticipation in whether they survive or not. This book is set in America who is as always having some trouble with drugs and so they decide to do something about it by sending some soldiers over to Columbia, they also do some other things but to find out about them you will ...  Read the complete review

Now that's what I'm talkin' about!! Although recently Tom Clancy has come under fire from critics, one cannot forget his earlier efforts, nor deny their merits. Clear and Present Danger is perhaps the best example of Mr. Clancy's abilities, which are formidable indeed. Whether it is espionage, military tactics, government conspiracy, or plausible, future scenarios you crave, you will be satisfied by this effort. It's length is not formidable (compared to some of Mr. Clancy's more recent tomes), and there are no real moral messages and expositions to wade through. Overall, Clancy at the top of his form, and highly recommended. ...  Read the complete review

I read this book without any expectations at all. It is not a genre I would normally read, but there I was at the train station, with nothing to read on the train, and I had alredy read everything by my favourite, second favourite, and even slightly less than favourite authors. So I picked this up and began to read. It must be said the basic plot is actually ok, although nothing particularly out of the ordinary. But the masses of technical jargon you are expected to wade through is just completely unreasonable. I felt as though I had just read a catologue for guns, helicopters and other sundry military equipment. The impression the author gives is that he has done a ...  Read the complete review

Clear and present Danger is the bok that clancy really lays the ground work for the rest of the series introducing two of the key players Mr Clark and Domingo Chavez that go to star in the rest of his books on the CIA agent Jack Ryan. The story revolves around the Americans problems involving the Columbian drugs cartel and is possibly losely connected to there involvement in El Salvadour. A presidential advisor takes it upon himself to aid the president by launching special forces into the jungle to tackle the drugs problem at source of course things go wrong and the advisor washes his hands of it leaving Jack Ryan, John Clark and later Chavez to pick up the pieces. All ...  Read the complete review