[hecht]

i have read most of his books. while the story outline is often excellent, his writing style is very tedious. it takes about 100 pages to get hooked. he goes off on so many unnecessary tangents spends 3 pages describing irrelevant characters that don't reappear, but the final conflict is often only a few pages long. I also found Ryan to be Clancy's masturbatory fantasy.
the best description I once saw was that he was the “John Fennimore Cooper of his day. “ the most famous bad writer of his generation.

[Sir_Ed]

Mark Twain’s “On The Literary Offenses of Fenimore Cooper” was hilarious!

Ed