What readers think of The Bear and The Dragon, plus links to write your own review.

The Bear and The Dragon was probably one of the coolest Tom Clancy books I've read so far, the only one cooler or at same level is Rainbow Six. Clancy should consider making a movie of this one.

to much detail but good

This was an amazing book full of action. The characters were clearly defiened and known. The story was very factual and was a great inturpitation of world politics, a must read. I am 17 and this is the first book I ever finished over 150 pages. It was an awsome book, I would definitly watch the movie, if one was made.

Great story with plenty of action.Glad I was on holiday to get through the detail. Clancy could do to cut down the detail and keep the story moving! Still a great holiday read.

This is one of the most god awful books I have ever read. He is off on many parts of his much vaunted techno-wizardry and proficiency, he mislabels the Chinese tanks as T-85's and T-90's which are Russian terms for them, He mislabels the terms the Chinese use for their ICBM's as well as their Submarines, he unrealistically has the U.S. once again save "the world" as the evangelistical right-wing extremist bigots enjoy terming it. The U.S. manages to do this as well with casualties that do not reach the triple digits but manage to wipe out six Chinese ARMIES with little more than three or four bombing runs and then tank led drive by shootings. As somewhat of a defense expert myself I know that is entirely unfeasable. As well as the possibility that you could lose contact with an entire army in a few minutes time. When studied from any sort of an informed or scholarly perspective Tom Clancy's "realistic fiction" are nothing more than out and out fiction. It also shows very little class, tact, or panache to be so overtly political and overbearing with one's views in a book meant for entertainment value, NOT as a work of propaganda which this most undoubtably is. BookBrowse denies me more than 300 words so I will leave you all with this. This book is sexist, chauvinistic, imperialistic, arrogant, propagandist to the extreme, bigoted, racist, unrealistic, bloated in length, entirely unfeasible, and glaringly under-researched. Tom Clancy deserves a spanking for dishing out such a ridiculously and unnecessarily verbose novel that does not even satisfy by the end.

This book starts off like most tom clancy's but this ending was one of the best I have ever read. It kept me reading, I'm 17, and this is the first "real" book I've read in a long time, and I finished it in 2 weeks, a personal best for any book
I love it,
keep'm comming tom
Matt

the book is amazing

Clancy's best. I thought it was brilliant. I'm happy that we get to see a major war against PRC, and I was glad to see them get their ass kicked. The parts about Communist forced abortion policy are good too. If you're Chinese, you'll probably get offended by the racial vocabulary here, but the plotline is good and credible, and it's a nice change from terrorist stories that everybody talks about right now. If you've read Red Storm Rising, you know what this is like; in both books, it's about oil, in both books the ennemy is the world's leading Communist power, and in both books, the Commies use conventional weapons, fail, and decide to go for nukes. In this book, however, we see a lot more of prelude to war, and now that Jack Ryan is President, you get to see the larger picture more. I personally thought this made the "hyperwar" (three days long) easier to follow. The best Clancy book ever.