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.
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.