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

Thought it was very thought-provoking.

Racist and petty drival...

Great Work Tom. Keep em comin this way. Jus can`t put it down.

One of the best books

I dont know what your guy's probs are but this book kicks ars, Rainbow Six is much better book though.

i thought that this book was very worth while and enjoyable. it was a very good follow up to the extraordinary executive orders. the length was long but that was due to the detail. this was a very good book.

This was in fact the first Tom Clancy novel I read and I came back to it lately and re-read it. For the most part, I enjoyed it. This huge tapestry of a novel that begins with seemingly independent plots comes together in a well-woven story. It is so complex that it seems like several novels in one; part murder mystery, part spy/techno-thriller. It is a massive economic, military and geopolitical overview of a not so unbelievable near future....
In conclusion: A sometimes-fascinating glimpse at how the wheels within three powerful governments might turn when the threat of world war looms. Multiple human dramas combined with a big-picture overview of a very possible world. One interesting aspect that I noticed was Clancy's entrance into social critique, specifically of the human rights situation in China. If the ‘insider’ world of diplomacy and statecraft is anything resembling this then there is certainly a cause to be alarmed.
Not Clancy’s best work, then, but worth reading.
Following the events of September 11 in the United States, it is notable that Clancy predicted terrorist hijackings of airliners in the novel Executive Orders, where terrorists take over an airliner and slam it into the Capitol. He also alluded to biological terrorism in this same novel and the afore-mentioned Rainbow Six.

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Dino
Tom Clancy's The Bear & The Dragon is a worthwhile follow up to his last
Jack Ryan novel, Executive Orders. As usual, Mr.Clancy's talents as the
Dean of Techno-thrillers comes through in this latest work.
Once again, Clancy's familiar characters-from Robby Jackson to Bart
Mancuso are on hand to deal with Red China , which has finally emerged in
the forefront of the action after manipulating Japan & Iran in Clancy's
Debt Of Honor & Exec Orders. And again, he gives a tour de force of
military action balanced with great characters & characterizations. If
The Bear & The Dragon has any flaws, it's that it simply stops when it
could & should 've run afew more chapters-detailing the US naval forces
that struck the Chinese fleet, a more complete scene with statements to
the American nation prior to the war & after the attempted nuclear strike
would've made for a more complete read. But nonetheless, The Bear & the
Dragon remains one of Tom Clancy's best works. I, for one, hopes he
produces a follow up to this novel real soon.