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But you bet The Bear and the Dragon is fun--over 1,000 swift pages' worth. In the opening scene, a hand-launched RPG rocket nearly blows up Russia's intelligence chief in his armored Mercedes, and Ryan's clever spooks report that the guy who got the rocket in his face instead was the hoodlum "Rasputin" Avseyenko, who used to run the KGB's "Sparrow School" of female prostitute spies. Soon after, two apparent assassins are found handcuffed together afloat in St. Petersburg's Neva River, their bloated faces resembling Pokémon toys.
The stakes go higher as the mystery deepens: oil and gold are discovered in huge quantities in Siberia, and the evil Chinese Minister Without Portfolio Zhang Han San gazes northward with lust. The laid-off elite of the Soviet Army figure in the brewing troubles, as do the new generation of Tiananmen Square dissidents, Zhang's wily, Danielle Steel-addicted executive secretary Lian Ming, and Chester Nomuri, a hip, Internet-porn-addicted CIA agent posing in China as a Japanese computer salesman. He e-mails his CIA boss, Mary Pat "the Cowgirl" Foley, that he intends to seduce Ming with Dream Angels perfume and scarlet Victoria's Secret lingerie ordered from the catalog--strictly for God and country, of course. Soon Ming is calling him "Master Sausage" instead of "Comrade," but can anybody master Ming?
The plot is over the top, with devastating subplots erupting all over the globe and lurid characters scaring the wits out of each other every few pages, but Clancy finds time to insert hard-boiled little lessons on the vileness of Communism, the infuriating intrusions of the press on presidential power, the sexual perversions of Mao, the poor quality of Russian pistol silencers ("garbage, cans loaded with steel wool that self-destructed after less than ten shots"), the folly of cutting a man's throat with a knife ("they flop around and make noise when you do that"), and similar topics. Naturally, the book bristles like a battlefield with intriguingly intricate military hardware.
When you've got a Tom Clancy novel in hand, who needs action movies? --Tim Appelo --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
So, who were his enemies?" Lieutenant Colonel Shablikov asked. Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Deja Vu?,
By "stephencg" (Talking Rock, GA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Bear and the Dragon (Mass Market Paperback)
I like Clancy's Books, but "The Bear and The Dragon" was very disappointing. I understand that Clancy was attempting to create a back story in the first 700 pages, but enough is enough. In spite of this, it was the repeat plot from "Red Storm Rising" (One of my favorite books) that really disappointed me. The plot can be explained in 4 simple stages: 1) Nation in economic trouble 2) United States inadvertently contributes to the trouble 3) Political Elites of said nation devise a Hollywood type scheme to take resources from another nation 4) Clancy's typical set of main Characters contribute to an overwhelming NATO victory. Summary: A fair read, if you can just through the first 700 pages.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Tedious and Silly,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Bear And The Dragon (Hardcover)
I enjoyed all of Tom Clancy's books until this one. The Bear and the Dragon was the book where it became clear that his writing empire had run out of steam and originality. The "war" lasts less than a third of the novel, with a nonsense resolution that will not be believed by anyone familiar with China. The reader will, however, be thoroughly bored by then. Most of the characters seem to be marking time in a talk-fest and the plot moves with the slowness of walking in a deep Canadian winter (takes one to know what it's like!). I will not describe the racial stereotypes and odd notions of Asian/Russian politics. Time for Tom to go on sabbatical for several years and rethink on a quiet beach, he's got plenty of royalties from readers like me. Wait for the reviews of the next books before buying to see if he has rejuvenated.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Racist and total waste of time,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Bear and the Dragon (Mass Market Paperback)
I've read every Clancy novel featuring Jack Ryan, and I like all of them until this one. Yes, I know this is only fiction, but since Clancy cares so much about little details, shouldn't he at least create a world that looks like the one we live today? His idea about China and Chinese people seems to stay in the 1980's, and they're so stereotyped that it could only be called racism. Did he spend time to even study China and it's people? I think not. Also, his idea about economics are just plain stupid. He thinks that $100bln is such a large amount of money that it would somehow save Russia's economy. Do you know that $100bln is about what Russia gets from selling crude oil this year? A compleate waste of time and money!
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