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Title: Patriot Games by Martin Sheen, Tom Clancy ISBN: 0-394-29761-X Publisher: Random House Audio Pub. Date: 12 July, 1987 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (144 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Why Tom Clancy is One of the Best: Patriot Games
Comment: Tom Clancy's novel, Patriot Games, is an exciting and chillingly realistic story. His technical descriptions of guns, bullets, and in-depth info on organizations such as the CIA and FBI add plenty of depth and knowledge to the text, making the reader really feel that the writer is well informed on the subject. Clancy immediately grabs the reader with his vivid descriptions of the action scenes. The authenticity that Clancy presents his plot with easily allows the reader to be sucked into the plot.
The novel is based around the main character, Jack Ryan, an ex-marine turned historian, who inadvertently foils a terrorist plot to kidnap the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Irish terrorist group, known as the ULA, or the Ulster Liberation Army, takes personal offense at Ryan's actions and set out to kill him. The story is set on the suburbs of Annapolis, close to Washington DC. Since I live in Virginia and have visited DC, I can tell you personally that even Clancy's descriptions of Washington DC and the surrounding area are superb.
The character of Jack Ryan has a thoroughly developed character with good personality traits along with the bad. Clancy dwells on many aspects of his personality, and we often get to see his thoughts, which help enhance our knowledge about him. However, a few of the other characters suffer from a lack of character development, and the reader has a hard time keeping track of who they are because of a lack of any knowledge about them. In addition, Clancy has introduced more characters than necessary, which sometimes adds to the confusion of who is who.
The plot is chillingly realistic, but gets sluggish at times. The main blocks of action appear at the beginning and end of the novel, making the middle somewhat boring at some points. Overall, the book definitely has an interesting plot and characters with a good balance of action, suspense, and character development. I would recommend it to anyone who loves to read action-thrillers and to people interested in detective work.
Rating: 4
Summary: Jack Ryan's First Adventure!
Comment: International terrorism is the topic Clancy tackles in his novel, 'Patriot Games.' When history teacher and sometime CIA anylist Jack Ryan intervenes in an IRA hit on the Prince of Wales, he soon finds himself a political target. When his family is attacked in Baltimore Ryan again goes to work for the CIA in the hopes of stopping the terrorists. While the story is gripping and the action scenes fast-paced and exciting, the first two hundred pages of the book are for the most part slow. If you're a patient reader you should get through it okay. The ending is a climax in the great Clancy tradition and the characters, as always, are people you'd like to know. There is much more in the book than in the movie, but it's essentially the same story. On the whole it's a great first ride for Jack Ryan.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Very Good novel by Tom Clancy
Comment: Patriot Games takes place years before The Hunt For Red October, and it involves a younger Jack Ryan, in Patriot Games, he is a history teacher at the Naval College in Maryland, but he took some vacation time in London, and he discovers terrorist trying to kill a passing motorcade, and Jack Ryan is right there witnessing it! So he brings into action, killing one of the terrorist, and getting shot himself, but he saved the people inside the car; it turns out it was the Prince of Wales with their newborn son!
Now Jack has made some friends, and some enemies; a right-wing Northern Ireland terrorist organization from the IRA. Now the main bad guy Sean Miller is taken into British custody, and he is tried before a English court with Jack Ryan already into knighthood by the Queen of England, and he testifies against Sean Miller. So Jack heads back home to Maryland and goes back to work as a History Teacher at the Naval War College living his normal life.
Jack has a couple of friends in the CIA business, but he wants to do what he loves to do; teach history. One of them happens to be Admiral James Greener, the main man in the CIA, and Captain Jackson, another friend of Jack's. But what Jack does not know, Sean is planning to get back at Jack by all means necessary, so when he is being transferred to another prison, and he escapes by his fellow right-wing terrorist's, and escapes.
Now Jack finds out what happens, and he goes on with his life, but when Sean Miller comes to America and tries to kill Cathy and his daughter Sally on the freeway, Jack then decides to join the CIA as a analyst, and once he gets in, he is drawn into the world of the CIA. What Jack does not know, he knows that Sean Miller is out there, and he knows where to find Jack, he wants Jack dead because he kille his younger brother at the beginning of the book. Then at a dinner party, Sean Miller and his goons go to Jack's house, and they try to kill everyone, but they fail, and they try to make a run for it, but Jack and them get them, and kill them for what they were trying to do.
The novel starts out boring, but it gets better and better once you reach the end, it is very exciting in the last 100 pages of the novel as the suspense builds up. Great book.
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Title: The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy ISBN: 0425133516 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy ISBN: 0425116840 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: July, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy ISBN: 0425122123 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Without Remorse by Tom Clancy ISBN: 0425143325 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy ISBN: 042510107X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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