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Title: Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy ISBN: 0-425-14758-4 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: July, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (187 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Debt of Honor Rings True
Comment: Debt of Honor has the political and military insider knowledge that other authors can't compare too. Tom Clancy goes inside the system and explains everything in layman's terms. His personal knowledge of the military makes the novel accurate, but his writing style doesn't let you put the book down until the last page is finished. With this combination of knowledge and writing, Debt of Honor proves itself to stand beside Clancy's other novels, Rainbow Six and The Hunt for Red October. The has familiar characters such as Jack Ryan, a character starring in previous novels, along with John Clark and Domingo Chavez.
The book follows the story of Jack Ryan, the president's National Security Advisor, as he attempts to stop a war with Japan due to a single auto accident. The clever writing and suspenseful action combines to create very entertaining reading. Though Clancy won't stun the world with a literary "classic," he will deliver one of the most compelling novels of today. Everything in Debt of Honor will strike you as eerily plausible, from an attack on the American economy to Japan's secret nuclear weapons program.
Debt of Honor should not be mistaken as a book selling off the Tom Clancy name, such as the Op-Center series. Besides global warfare, the ideas are original and exhilarating. The novel was actually written entirely by Tom Clancy, which makes it a definite read. This book is recommended for any Clancy or action fan.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good story but Tom, Please cut down on the paper !!
Comment: The seventh book of Clancy's that I have read and this one seems to drag on through the middle four hundred pages where Tom feels the need to explain the entire workings of the world financial markets. He takes too long to set up his plots and subplots even though I enjoyed the book. The last two hundred pages wizz by as the action heats up and the battles rage in the Pacific and at home. The ending is a little far fetched but exciting and I hope Tom can limit his stories to five hundred pages. I hope Tom can switch subjects and write another "Red Storm Rising" type novel, without Jack Ryan, branching into a different area. Still his best is "Patriot Games". Message to the movie studios: NEVER ravage another Clancy book like you did to "Clear and Present Danger" the movie departs from the book after two minutes and never comes close to the book again!!
Rating: 4
Summary: Enemy, Ally, or Something Else?
Comment: The book Debt of Honor questions whether the Japanese accepted surrender at the end of WWII, of if it was just a retreat. Honor and Saving Face means much to the Japanese culture, and, if like in many Clancy novels, if they were pushed "one step closer", could they gain an upper hand and threaten war once again?
To fully appreciate the situation in Debt of Honor, the full political and military ramificaitons of Clancy's works must have come true - ICBM nuke disarmament, and a general reduction of war forces of both sides of the eastern block and NATO.
So if Japan becomes a nuclear power, and takes over Guam, could the US respond - especially if their financial situation is thrown into chaos via computer "virus" - or deliberate trap?
I don't agree with several of Clancy's postulates, such as ICBM disarmement (in face of the China threat), or a President putting a member of the opposite political party in the VP slot (as happened to Jack Ryan in the book). While perhaps necessary for future novels (such as Execute Orders), Jack Ryan's accendency to the Presidency is needed, politicians and congress members would reject a VP like Jack, since he would be a heartbeat away from the top job. However, the book is a satifying work of fiction well worth the read.
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Title: Executive Orders by Tom Clancy ISBN: 0425158632 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: August, 1997 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: 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: The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy ISBN: 0425180964 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy ISBN: 0425170349 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 07 September, 2004 List Price(USD): $8.50 |
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