[RayChuang88]

I thought The Bear and the Dragon was Clancy's best book since The Sum of All Fears. =)

I especially liked the part about what happened to the church clergymen and how the insular Chinese response made everything go from bad to worse.

[katana]

He sometimes makes mistakes. The water vapor cooling system at the Sydney Summer Olympics was a key plot device in Rainbow Six. The problem was the 2000 Summer Olympics were held in the middle of the Australian winter (southern hemisphere) and the temperatures would have been and were quite mild.

I agree that The Bear and the Dragon was one of his best as the scenarios were disturbingly plausible. The only problem I had with Sum of All Fears was the idea of the Vatican guards policing an internationalized Jerusalem. Tom sometimes wears his religious loyalties on his sleeve, but that's OK, I'm still a big fan.