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This harrowing #1 bestseller is an unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness. Without mercy. Without guilt. Without remorse.
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Avid readers of Clancy's bestselling techno-thrillers ( The Hunt for Red October et al.) know agent John Kelly, code-named Mr. Clark, as Jack Ryan's "dark side." Here, in 1970, Vietnam vet Kelly gets involved in a secret operation to rescue 20 American pilots from a North Vietnamese prison camp. Betrayed by someone in Washington, the mission ends in apparent failure. Clancy balances the military movements with a dark narrative of Kelly's tragic personal life. While mourning the death of his pregnant wife in a traffic accident, Kelly picks up a young hitchhiker named Pam, a prostitute and drug "mule" fleeing her cruel masters. The pair fall in love and set out to bring down the drug lords, but an error on Kelly's part leads to Pam's horrible demise at the hands of the vengeful criminals. After his own recovery from a shotgun blast, Kelly begins methodically to murder his way through the drug ring. Clancy attempts to rationalize this amoral crusade with passages of introspection by characters who are either noble warriors or human scum, but the technique doesn't wash. Although full of failings of style and moral judgment, this overlong, often melodramatic novel seems destined to follow its predecessors to the top of the bestseller lists. BOMC selection.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Part Death Wish and part Missing in Action,
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This review is from: Without Remorse (Mass Market Paperback)
Part Death Wish and part Missing in Action, this tells the story of how former navy seal John Kelly became CIA operative John Clark.Set in the waning years of Vietnam, we meet recently widowed John Kelly as falls in love with a prostitute. She is brutally murdered by her drug running pimp and most of the book chronicles Kelly's quest for revenge, interspersed with the CIA's attempt to rescue american POWs from North Vietnam. It's not a bad book, but for most part it is just a standard revenge fantasy. Yes we'd all like to imagine what a trained special forces operative could do to street gangs, but the joy of reading a Tom Clancy book is to be immersed in the world of murky and clandestine geopolitics- and this book has very little of that.
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Awesome,
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This review is from: Without Remorse (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is great. It kept me wanting to turn the page after page. The beginning was alittle slow but that is in all books. It picked up the pace. Tom Clancy did a great job and whenever i think of this book I think of a movie. That's how good he was at describing everything. I still think I watched a movie and not read a book. Great Job here Mr. Clancy
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sweet Revenge!,
By Mark "arch-nerd" (Daytona Beach, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Without Remorse (Hardcover)
Without Remorse is, chronologically, the first book in the Jack Ryan series. It's fortunate that this was not the first book Clancy published, because he would have had a hader time topping it with his following novels. It's a tough call, but I'd say that Without Remorse edges out Rainbow Six as my favorite Clancy novel.The story begins with John Kelly, the former Navy SEAL, who has to endure the death of his wife in a car accident. A year passes, and Kelly falls in love with a drifter named Pam. But it turns out that Pam is a prostitute, and her pimps kill her and wound Kelly. After Kelly recovers, the CIA asks him to take part in a daring raid on a secret Vietnamese POW camp. Can Kelly balance his desire for revenge and still accomplish his mission with the Agency? The book is fashioned after a classic revenge tragedy, with a twist. Readers may be shocked that they delight in reading the scenes that describe Kelly's revenge. But that's Tom Clancy for you--he really draws the reader in and allows them to associate with the hero through his effective writing. Without Remorse is fiction at its best. It's not really a "techno-thriller" like the rest of the Jack Ryan books, but it establishes a framework for the stories to come.
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