[Jeff Head]

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".

[Atlantic Friend]

I concur. "Red Storm Rising" really got my attention, as did "Patriot Games" and "The sum of all fears". Then, things began to go downhill, IMHO, even if I thought he had regained some ground with "Rainbow 6", and if I appreciated the description of rebuilding institutions in "Executive orders"
. But the situation depicted in "The Bear and the Dragon" was just too too. Poor, hapless Russians who have to fight with WWII-era military gear ?

Plus, I like subplots to be fully exploited.