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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. It related to what I used to want to do for a career in the military. The main characters are the same as a few of the video games I play. I like the idea of that. It was unlike the other Tom Clancy books I have read in the past. Red Storm Rising was &quot;out there&quot;. This on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55004351">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[  Jack Ryan, now in the administration of the CIA, uncovers a plot by the President of the US to send covert operations into Columbia to destroy the drug cartels.<br/>  But the presidents mission is changed in the middle because of political pressure and the troops he sent are left to die in the ju...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39896029">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the first few of this series when I was in high school and thought I might return to it for some more mindless entertainment. Unfortunately, I forgot how mindless it really is.<br/><br/>Clancy's reputation, as the blurb on any of his novels will tell you, is for writing &quot;techno-thrille...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39018405">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great one in the Jack Ryan series.  My only qualm with this one is the excessive profanity.  While the rest of the books I've read by Tom Clancy have included bad language, this one is absolutely filled with it (because of the military aspect, I assume?), so much so that I even found myself ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64888617">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the last Tom Clancy novel I absolutely loved. With this one, I felt like he was at peak performance, generating a focused, plausible storyline that could stand on its own, rather than just being an installment in an increasingly outlandish saga. <em>Clear and Present Danger</em> is a grand techno-thr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59741749">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Salah satu contoh operasi rahasia CIA berdasarkan kepentingan pribadi Presiden, tanpa persetujuan Kongres, di mana misi tersebut gagal dan CIA menelantarkan/melupakan para prajurit yang diterjunkan dalam operasi. Iya sih, di setiap episode serial teve Mission Impossible sambil memerintahkan operasi ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38293860">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dibuku ini nampak sekali kepentingan negara sering kali diselewengkan oleh pemimpin negara tersebut, gak cuman berlaku tuk negara2 kroco, bahkan negara super power pun yg sistem demokrasi sangat diunggul2kan, bisa kecolongan n sering kali &quot;menyolongkan diri&quot; he he he....<br/><br/>terliha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6532090">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[sekali lagi masterpiece dari tom clancy, yang bercerita tentang kartel narkoba, dan misi rahasia dari pasukan khusus atas perintah senator gedung putih secara diam-diam untuk melakukan penghancuran lokasi-lokasi pembuatan narkoba dipedalaman amerika selatan, yang akhirnya tercium oleh pihak kongres,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5261874">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another adventurous novel from the pen of Tom Clancy, featuring Jack Ryan, CIA analyst slash &quot;I-can't-keep-away-from-the-action&quot; adventurer. This novel explains how he comes to meet his future ally, John Clark. Well done.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[At the end of the prologue to <em>Clear and Present Danger</em>, Clancy writes, &quot;And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning--and, once decided, best unseen.&quot; In <em>Clear and Present Danger</em> nothing is as clear as it may seem.<p> The president, unsatisfied with the success of his &quot;war on drugs,&quot; decides that he wants some immediate success. But after John Clark's covert strike team is deployed to Colombia for Operation Showboat, the drug lords strike back taking several civilian casualties. The chief executive's polls plummet. He orders Ritter to terminate their unofficial plan and leave no traces. Jack Ryan, who has just been named CIA deputy director of intelligence is enraged when he discovers that has been left out of the loop of Colombian operations. Several of America's most highly trained soldiers are stranded in an unfinished mission that, according to all records, never existed. Ryan decides to get the men out.<p> Ultimately, <em>Clear and Present Danger</em> is about good conscience, law, and politics, with Jack Ryan and CIA agent John Clark as its dual heroes. Ryan  relentlessly pursues what he knows is right and legal, even if it means confronting the president of the United States. Clark is the perfect soldier, but a man who finally holds his men higher than the orders of any careless commander.<p> Along with the usual, stunning array of military hardware and the latest techno-gadgets, <em>Clear and Present Danger</em> further develops the relationships and characters that Clancy fans have grown to love. Admiral James Greer passes the CIA torch to his pupil, Ryan. Mr. Clark and Chavez meet for the first time. Other recurring characters like Robert Ritter and &quot;the President&quot; add continuity to Clancy's believable, alternate reality.  This  is Clancy at his best. <em>--Patrick O'Kelley</em></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lots of gripping plot twists, etc.  The good guys win, the bad guys lose, nobility and honor are praised, there's an occasional stab at a deep thought.  It's fun.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[At the end of the prologue to <em>Clear and Present Danger</em>, Clancy writes, &quot;And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning--and, once decided, best unseen.&quot; In <em>Clear and Present Danger</em> nothing is as clear as it may seem.<p> The president, unsatisfied with the success of his &quot;war on drugs,&quot; decides that he wants some immediate success. But after John Clark's covert strike team is deployed to Colombia for Operation Showboat, the drug lords strike back taking several civilian casualties. The chief executive's polls plummet. He orders Ritter to terminate their unofficial plan and leave no traces. Jack Ryan, who has just been named CIA deputy director of intelligence is enraged when he discovers that has been left out of the loop of Colombian operations. Several of America's most highly trained soldiers are stranded in an unfinished mission that, according to all records, never existed. Ryan decides to get the men out.<p> Ultimately, <em>Clear and Present Danger</em> is about good conscience, law, and politics, with Jack Ryan and CIA agent John Clark as its dual heroes. Ryan  relentlessly pursues what he knows is right and legal, even if it means confronting the president of the United States. Clark is the perfect soldier, but a man who finally holds his men higher than the orders of any careless commander.<p> Along with the usual, stunning array of military hardware and the latest techno-gadgets, <em>Clear and Present Danger</em> further develops the relationships and characters that Clancy fans have grown to love. Admiral James Greer passes the CIA torch to his pupil, Ryan. Mr. Clark and Chavez meet for the first time. Other recurring characters like Robert Ritter and &quot;the President&quot; add continuity to Clancy's believable, alternate reality.  This  is Clancy at his best. <em>--Patrick O'Kelley</em></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best in the series.  The whole concept of &quot;when is it OK to break the rules&quot; runs throughout the novel.]]></body>
    
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