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To: Jeff Head
I'm sure I will. The problem with ten techno-thrillers of the mid-80s was their growing emphasis on technology, that hid the fact that, ultimately and regardless of the nice gadgets fielded, conflict is a human thing that calls for the best - and sometimes for the worst - part of our soul.

I have always longed for a thriller as action-packed as Tom Clancy's or Larry Bond's books, but whose hero is a normal guy (a bit like John Preston in Frederick Forsyth's "Fourth Protocol"). I found the excerpts of Dragon's Fury very promising in this way...
171 posted on 04/09/2004 6:29:44 AM PDT by Atlantic Friend (Cursum Perficio)
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To: Atlantic Friend
I stopped reading Clancy some time ago...when his language and other anomalies became too much for me. Particulary the idea that we were completely unassailable.

...it also took him way too long to get to the meat of the story for my tastes, sometimes hundreds of pages.

I tried again with the "Bear and the Dragon", but found his too resolution to the issues in Siberia with Red China much too clean and much too quick.

I really liked his earlier "Red Storm Rising" and "The Hunt for Red October".

172 posted on 04/09/2004 6:36:39 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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