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Title: Red Rabbit (Walker Large Print Books) by Tom Clancy, Tome Clancy ISBN: 1-4104-0044-1 Publisher: Large Print Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.07 (550 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Good start, slow finish
Comment: One of Tom Clancy's better recent efforts, particularly the first half or so where he puts together the story. A major improvement over Rainbow Six and The Dragon and the Bear.

It is interesting to see the young, pre-president Jack Ryan starting out as a lower-level CIA analyst,and early investory in Starbucks, and follow the Foley husband and wife spy team set up their Moscow operation that will come to fruition in Cardinal In The Kremlin.

The story begins to lag heading into the second half as the author tries, it appears, to stretch the story out so the book reaches a Clancy-size 600 plus pages.

Clancy recent pentient for using mouthfulls of foul language at innopportune times truly drags the book down even while his command of detail for every situation remains intact.

I do recommend the book for avid Clancy fans, but don't expect a it to rival Patriot Games, Cardinal In The Kremlin or Sum Of All Fears.

Rating: 2
Summary: Slow and boring
Comment: I read this book only because I have read all of Clancy's other fiction books. This book was disappointing. It's as if Clancy has realized that in order to keep the franchise going, he has to youthen the character and return to the Cold War. Perhaps Clancy was hoping that this book would be used as the basis for a new Ben Affleck movie. Whatever his intentions, he failed miserably.

The plot is boring and without action. What happened to the military genius that Clancy displayed so many times in his past books? He built a book around a story about a guy who wants to get out of the Soviet Union, and the resolution of that story was anticlimactic.

There were so many things that irritated me about this book. Chiefly the fact that Clancy went out of his way so many times to remind the reader that we were in the 80s. So many references to the events of "Patriot Games". So many references to "I don't like to be called Sir John." So many references to his wife, the eye surgeon, cutting open eyeballs. (If Ryan was 31, Cathy would at most have been a recent graduate of an opthalmology residency/fellowship. Surely not experienced enough to be considered a top notch doctor with all these connections.)

This book was irritating, and I was relieved when I finally finished it.

Rating: 1
Summary: Worse With Each Page Turned
Comment: Half-a-star, but that option doesn't exist.

For anyone who is a fan of the character Jack Ryan, and to a degree Clancy's writing, this book will be an incredible let down. Story is slow and uninteresting, and it doesn't get better. Writing is bad, and unlike Clancy's previous novels. It's as if he didn't write the book. Language is more vulgar and not even necessary for the dialog between characters.

And the references to "Starbucks" feels out of place chronologically. During the setting of the story, Starbucks would have existed of just a few stores in the Northwest. Hard to swallow that Jack Ryan would've have been that addicted to their coffee for so many mentions.

I'll just stick to re-reading Clancy's past greats. Either Red Rabbit was ghost written, or he's lost his gift to pen a worthwhile read.

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