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" Actually, a pretty darned good follow-up to "Clear and Present Danger," which only makes the precipitous off-the-cliff nosedive between this book and "Debt of Honor" all the sadder. Kind of a last-gasp attempt to wring drama out of US-Russian mistrust, while moving the focus from the Cold War over to the Middle East -- well played, Tom. Well played. "
- Philip, 2/20/2014
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" All the Clancy books are great "
- David, 2/19/2014
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" Oh thank God. Thank God it's over. I picked this up en route to Goa a few weeks ago, and I seem to have been reading it forever. As always, Clancy's world is incredibly detailed and credible, in many ways all the more impressive for its sometime parallels to the world we live in today. As ever, the central plot is great. As ever, there's just too bloody much detail for anybody outside of the military to maintain much interest. The characters are for the most part the same seven or eight core people, given different names and accents, and recycled at whim into a cast of thousands. The thousands are too many to keep track of. The detail of what they're doing is too monotonous and minuscule to do anything but slow the plot. And while the writing is functional, watch the inelegance of his point of view switches, requiring only a new paragraph to instigate, making it occasionally an act of backtracking and deduction to work out whose thoughts you're trying to follow. There's a good story buried in here, but it's splashed over so pointlessly large a canvas as to require almost forensic reconstruction to be able to see it. "
- Richard, 2/15/2014
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" lot of info. "
- Leelakrishna, 2/4/2014
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" The book was okay, but I really did not like how the villians in the movie were altered (for political reasons) from Iranians to Neo-Nazis... "
- Scott, 2/4/2014
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" I'm a big Tom Clancy fan (except for those books where the description of the military equipment can be 10 pages long). This is one of my favorites from him "
- Ricardo, 1/31/2014
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" As much as I'd come to dislike Clancy and his books, I actually found myself enjoying this one "
- Sean, 1/26/2014
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" Jack Ryan saves the world again. This time from nuclear disaster and an incompetent president. "
- Kaethe, 1/23/2014
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" You have to like Clancy to like this. It takes a bit to get going and Clancy loves to go overboard in descriptives - "Amal stood on a cliff, formed in the jurassic period by pressure from volcanoes, he was holding an uzi, the metal for the uzi was mined in siberia by people who have low cholesterol b/c they eat a lot of salad...", I get it, Amal has a gun, move on! Despite that, he takes an all too real scenario and gives it legs, puts the thought in the back of your brain, and does a good job working through the characters and scenarios. Not a quick read. "
- Samuel, 1/21/2014
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" I do a little blah-blah-blahing through the middle of the book. "
- Jan, 1/13/2014
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" Classic WWIII but may be dated now. "
- Matt, 12/23/2013
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" Top Secret info from the 70s on nuclear weaponry "
- Dale, 12/16/2013
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" They didn't blow up the super bowl in the movie, that's all I'll say about that. How could Hollywood screw up such crucial part to his story? I thought that it made it better that they killed a bunch of people in the book. I couldn't believe that Tom Clancy actually set the bomb off. "
- John, 11/24/2013
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" Wow this was great. Not what i expected after seeing the movie. The whole time i was convinced that the book was too long but in the end it all came together to make a really suspenseful story. I couldn't put the last 150 pages down. "
- Devon, 9/27/2013
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" A good read but I got the feeling Clancy was writing under deadline "
- Brad, 5/7/2013
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" A visionary of what could be, Clancy's telling of what happens when terrorists set off a nuclear device at the Super Bowl provides a chilling view of what could be a worst case scenario for the US government and how they could react. Excellent book, and the movie sucks. "
- Eric, 2/12/2013
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" does life imitate art or vice versa? read this book and you be the judge... "
- KC, 12/30/2012
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" Pretty cool, I guess? "
- Matthew, 11/5/2012
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" It was OK. Nothing amazing. I think it was better than the movie but that does not really say much. If you like Clancy, I think you will be disappointed. "
- James, 7/7/2012
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" I can't believe I read the entire book. The first five hundred pages were slow and he let's it be know that he's republican - at least that's my opinion. Perhaps he's making a jab at Hillary? It does pick up at the end, but it seems farfetched - even in a post 9-11 world. "
- K.J., 6/9/2012
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" Favorite Clancy Novel, didn't care for the movie. "
- Jason, 5/28/2012
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" One of the best thrillers there is. "
- Rex, 3/14/2012
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" Perhaps I should have read the book before seeing the movie. Book just seemed long winded and confused. Wasn't easy but I did finish it.
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- Roland, 4/30/2011
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" Wow this was great. Not what i expected after seeing the movie. The whole time i was convinced that the book was too long but in the end it all came together to make a really suspenseful story. I couldn't put the last 150 pages down.
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- Devon, 4/11/2011
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" My first Tom Clancy novel, and I was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed it.
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- Laura, 3/31/2011
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" It was OK. Nothing amazing. I think it was better than the movie but that does not really say much. If you like Clancy, I think you will be disappointed.
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- James, 2/21/2011
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" I don't have a lot of recollection of this story other than trying to blow up the Super Bowl. Jack Ryan is a compelling character and Clancy writes him beautifully.
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- Robert, 1/30/2011
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" pretty good thriller. Very different from the movie. The book gets a bit bogged down in the submarine thread, but it was very fun.
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- Kristine, 12/22/2010
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" Overall its a pretty good book kind of boring at times but toward the end it is very easy to get through and quite nail biting and by nail biting i mean wanting to kill one of the characters or two maybe
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- Peter, 12/14/2010
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" Heart pounding right up until the very end!!
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- Cheryldetrick, 12/9/2010
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" Tom Clancy is my current favorite author! His stories are complex, but plot lines feed into each other.
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- Cheryl, 11/16/2010
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" Jack Ryan is a good spook, very well written espionage book.
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- Jim, 11/12/2010
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