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1 posted on 04/08/2010 2:01:54 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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I’m sort of glad the “Son of Jack Ryan” series never took off (Teeth of the Tiger). The book and story seemed kind of vague, yet forced.


2 posted on 04/08/2010 2:05:20 PM PDT by RabidBartender
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I’m sort of glad the “Son of Jack Ryan” series never took off (Teeth of the Tiger). The book and story seemed kind of vague, yet forced.


3 posted on 04/08/2010 2:05:20 PM PDT by RabidBartender
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Tom Clancy is still around? Last book of his was written by so many different ghost writers and was so incoherent that I had to toss it not even halfway through it.


4 posted on 04/08/2010 2:05:28 PM PDT by cll (I am the warrant and the sanction)
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The Hunt for Red October (1984)
Red Storm Rising (1986)
Patriot Games (1987)
The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988)
Clear and Present Danger (1989)
The Sum of All Fears (1991)
Without Remorse (1993)
Debt of Honor (1994)
Executive Orders (1996)
SSN: Strategies for Submarine Warfare (1996)
Rainbow Six (1998)
The Bear and the Dragon (2000)
Red Rabbit (2002)
The Teeth of the Tiger (2003)
Dead or Alive (2010)


6 posted on 04/08/2010 2:19:53 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Figures.)
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Used to be a big Clancy fan and voracious reader of everything he wrote, but like many have opined, his books became boring and blah!

IF anyone wants to read a GREAT author and FANTASTIC books (especially for you ex Military types) I higly recommend anything by W.E.B. Griffin.

This guy makes all of his characters come to life and his "Men at War" (from the Lieutenants thru the Generals) is exceptional

Check his web site out as he has a whole different series and every one is better than the rest.

13 posted on 04/08/2010 2:50:04 PM PDT by Conservative Vermont Vet ((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
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Kind of like one of those sucky ensemble-cast movies with fifteen name-brand actors and an imaginary plot and character development.
14 posted on 04/08/2010 3:22:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (FYBO: Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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it would publish a new thriller by Mr. Clancy that would bring together many of his best-known characters from his last-quarter century

Sweeeeet! That is what he has been needing to do for many years. The "community" of "operators" has always been pretty small, no reason why they would not have, after an entire career, knew of each other.

17 posted on 04/08/2010 3:41:03 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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Hmm. I haven’t read anything of his since Executive Orders, which I thought was awful. I do have a 1984 printing of Hunt for Red October from the Naval Institute Press.


22 posted on 04/08/2010 4:44:02 PM PDT by Doohickey (I try to take my days one at a time, but occasionally several days attack me at once.)
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new Clancy book ping and you’re mentioned


26 posted on 04/08/2010 6:53:43 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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