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The Bear and The Dragon

The Bear and The Dragon
by Tom Clancy
Hardcover: Aug 2000,
752 pages.
Paperback: Aug 2001,
752 pages.

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Rated 1 of 5 of 5 by Frank
This so called "thriller" is boring and poorly paced at best, and blatently vulgar and racist at worst. The villains are completely one-dimensional and incredibly stupid, while Jack Ryan seems to completely toss away any and all likable qualities he may have had in previous novels. Don't bother wasting your money.

Rated 5 of 5 of 5 by SpringerD
Just another example of the outstanding work turned out by Clancy. Can't wait for the next one!

Rated 2 of 5 of 5 by Fred
This book is monumental because it is where Tom Clancy has "jumped the shark." It takes three hundred pages to get into the action, then another couple of hundred to get to more action. In between, you have characters needless bickering and one asian CIA agent's uneventful (and unsuspenseful) sexual recruitment of an intelligence source.

This is not the novel that I expected with the tension build up with the Chinese that has been present in the previous, much better, Clancy novels.

I bought it, but regretted it. Good thing that I bought it at Sam's.

Rated 5 of 5 of 5 by clancy - tom clancy
it was brill reading i loved it. fantastic - tim quincy ur the man !!!!

Rated 5 of 5 of 5 by Matthew
Completly riveting...a book that is compelling from start to finish. I'm only 15 and I think Tom Clancy's ability to build suspense is surpassed by no other writer out there.

Rated 5 of 5 of 5 by Tyler
Really mind-blowing when it comes to Tom Clancy!!!!
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