And when he finally got to the crux of the storyline, the part he filled almost 700 pages to reach, it was over in a paragraph. When it finally started, Clancy repeated parts over and over, giving the same look into the characters mindset he clearly spelled out several chapters back. I was thoroughly anticipating an exciting novel with espionage and high tech warfare. The beginning painted a really cool picture of what the book might be like. Then they do, but you have to sit through an hour of previews. There’s a lot of noise at first and tons of anticipation while you wait for the lights to go down. Reading this book was kind of like going to the movies. Oh, and boy does the central mcguffin of this book hit different in early 2021 than it did when I first read this however many years ago. Just be aware that you're getting into a late-90s thriller written by a cishet white guy. If you're looking for examples of how to write a really tight military/spy thriller, you could do much worse than this book. I read this specifically because I wanted examples of this sort of thriller plotting for a project of my own, and while my project isn't really anything like a Clancy novel, I think it did its job. Everything builds and builds and builds, the central plot winding tighter and tighter, information meted out in small morsels that never quite frustrate, even though it takes quite some time before you understand what the antagonists' plans are in full, and the heroes of the book don't even know what's happening until something like 85% of the way through the book. This book, for all its rah rah imperialism and glorification of solving problems by using guns, is very tightly-plotted. And he's also really good at putting together a really tight plot. The following are the books and approximate time frame in the Jack Ryan Universe Ten of the novels, including The Teeth of the Tiger (Berkley, 2004), feature the character Jack Ryan, former stock broker and CIA employee.Ĭlancy’s non-fiction works include a series of guided tours of America’s warfighting assets, Submarine, Armored Cav, Fighter Wing, Marine, and Airborne. He wrote more than a dozen novels, which have a blend of realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. As a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history, his dream of writing a novel came true with his first effort, The Hunt for Red October (1984). Tom Clancy was an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College.

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