WITHOUT REMORSE is the epic bestseller Tom Clancy fans have been waiting for. Its hero is a man very familiar to Clancy's readers. His code name is...
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Jul 26, 2011
Alison
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Unbelievably my first Tom Clancy book, but will not be my last! This is the story of John Kelly a man who lost his wife, found a new love, and had her taken away from him by the drug lords who enslaved her and tortured her. John has a mission: to rid the streets of the drug dealers who take young girls off the streets,turn them into prostitutes, addict them to drugs, then throw them away. John's other mission: working with the government to rescue 20 prisoners of war from a North Vietnamese p
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Dec 01, 2008
Chip
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This book was...well, ok. It wasn't terrible, but it certainly wasn't as good as I'd hoped, given Clancy's success.
First gripe: There were FAR too many side plots, which I know where there in some attempt to round out the narrative, to show how things happen, but it just got distracting. Stupidly so at times.
Second gripe: What the hell was Clancy thinking when he started calling people by different names? Sometimes a character is referred to by his first name, some More...
First gripe: There were FAR too many side plots, which I know where there in some attempt to round out the narrative, to show how things happen, but it just got distracting. Stupidly so at times.
Second gripe: What the hell was Clancy thinking when he started calling people by different names? Sometimes a character is referred to by his first name, some More...
Dec 30, 2008
Robert
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The book although written by Tom Clancy after the Hunt for Red October occurs in and earlier time. The book introduces you to Jim Kelly aka Jim Clark who is featured in the book Clear and Present Danger. Jim Kelly is a former Navy Seal that lives in Baltimore. He has left the Navy and leaves on an island in the Chesapeake Bay. On the way home he picks up a young girl.
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Aug 19, 2010
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Dec 11, 2007
Andy
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This one gets 4 stars (even though its from Tom Clancy) because the main character //ISNT// Jack Ryan (shudder), kills a dude in a deep sead diving pressure chamber. Also because John Kelly (main character) becomes John Clark, who was the mission briefer in all the Rainbow Six games I used to play as a kid. (Wooo Ding Chavez!!) -- yeah he's in the other books, but so is Jack Ryan ='()
Mar 04, 2011
Deb
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One long read, but if you get into the story and the suspense of wondering whether John Kelly (A.K.A. Mr. Clark) will be able to survive his own ruthlessness. Set during the vietnam era, this story details how Kelly stumbles across a drug ring that is using woman as couriers--and mistreating them horribly. When one of those woman--a personal friend of Kelly's--is brutally murdered he assigns himself a new mission--to take down the drug ring and deal out his own kind of justice. But at the sam
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Dec 17, 2009
Eric
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This book is the best of Clancy's. It is also a must read for anyone who has read or is planning on reading any of Clancy's other books (at least up through Rainbow-Six, which is as far as I have gotten). Definitely adds a lot of background information that seeps into other characters and storylines in the series.
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Jun 02, 2009
Jamie
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Jul 07, 2011
Tim
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So bad yet so good...
Tom Clancy has long been a hit and miss author for me. I should say that a lot of it has to do with his incredibly detailed and dense descriptions of everything military. He earns a lot of kudos for his intense knowledge of his subject matter and his ability to base his fiction in frighteningly realistic circumstances, but there are times when I just want to get on with the story and not learn about a firing pin and its historical significance to military maneuve More...
Tom Clancy has long been a hit and miss author for me. I should say that a lot of it has to do with his incredibly detailed and dense descriptions of everything military. He earns a lot of kudos for his intense knowledge of his subject matter and his ability to base his fiction in frighteningly realistic circumstances, but there are times when I just want to get on with the story and not learn about a firing pin and its historical significance to military maneuve More...
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Dec 13, 2007
Silvana
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One of the worst Clancy's books I've ever read. Boring, too much description, too many unnecessary drama... Yes, I know it's about the "making" of the legendary John Clark, but I still cannot enjoy it.
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Aug 22, 2011
Edward
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John Kelly (the John Clark of Clancy's Ryan novels and Rainbow Six) balances two missions in this novel: a personal revenge campaign against a Baltimore drug gang, and a professional assignment to rescue prisoners from North Vietnam. Typically readable, the story is dark, with unpleasant actions unleashed by both sides. The major question of the book is whether it is right for an individual to operate outside the law in order to secure justice; to what extent the end justifies the means. Kelly's
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Aug 17, 2010
Ian
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In what is easily the best book I've ever read, Tom Clancy creates a cast of characters that trancend the series of Jack Ryan.
John Kelly, the main character of the novel, is easily the most astounding person I've ever read about. From his times in Vietnam as part of the Third Special Operation Group, to the harrowing tale embodying the main plot of Without Remorse, you just can't help but be taken away with the perfect machismo and badass-ness of the character.
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John Kelly, the main character of the novel, is easily the most astounding person I've ever read about. From his times in Vietnam as part of the Third Special Operation Group, to the harrowing tale embodying the main plot of Without Remorse, you just can't help but be taken away with the perfect machismo and badass-ness of the character.
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Dec 28, 2008
Jim
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I mostly enjoyed this Clancy book, but it is nowhere near as good as his books featuring Jack Ryan. And there are other non-Ryan books that I also enjoyed more.
But this was a good book...perhaps a little long, but not too much. I was glad when it was over. The main character, John Clark, is a complex figure who is changed, not only by his military training as a seal, but by the tragedies in his life concerning women he either loves or cares about. But that leads to his recruitment More...
But this was a good book...perhaps a little long, but not too much. I was glad when it was over. The main character, John Clark, is a complex figure who is changed, not only by his military training as a seal, but by the tragedies in his life concerning women he either loves or cares about. But that leads to his recruitment More...
Mar 13, 2009
Brett
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It's easy enough to allow yourself to slip into a mindless passive approval as John Clark--the main character in this book--methodically murders his way up the chain of command of a drug syndicate. As a reader, you sense that while Clancy never comes right out and says it, that you should feel these bad guys are getting what they deserve. But if you're a thinking human, it's awfully difficult to put the book down and not have it occur to you that Clark's enterprise is completely morally bankrupt
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Feb 02, 2008
Mike
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This would make one hell of a movie - can't understand why no one has made it yet...
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Feb 24, 2011
Jesse
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Enjoyed this more than Rainbow Six. Awesome book.
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Oct 29, 2009
Michael
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I always considered The Count of Monte Cristo to be the quintessential revenge tale. However, Tom Clancy comes around giving us Without Remorse. As elaborate, if not more than Alexandre Dumas, Clancy's attention to detail while describing wartime procedures and the actions of an American spook are unmatched. Without Remorse introduces the reader to John Kelly, an American veteran of the Vietnam War (and recurring character in Clancy's Jack Ryan novels) and how events in his life lead him to b
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Jan 08, 2012
Jen
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Jan 07, 2012
Bruce
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Taken in story order, this is the first of the Jack Ryan books by Tom Clancy (although it was the 6th book written in the series). I remember reading this book in 1993 when it was first released - I thought it was the worst of Clancy's books to that point in time, and it was one of the reasons I stopped reading his works. Well, having read it again, I still think it's weak. The romances have all the depth one would expect from a high school sophomore, and the rest is a chivalrous fantasy. How
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Jul 30, 2010
Kevin
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Ah, yes. Now I remember. I remember why I so enjoyed Tom Clancy in high school/college. This book has motivated me to re-read the entire Ryanverse set of novels (save for "Red Rabbit," which I just finished and was less than impressed with). I tried 4 or 5 times over the last 15 years to read this book, but never got into it. The reasons elude me. Perhaps it was a matter of maturity, but it's hard to say. Either way, a top notch thriller. Had a hard time going to sleep at reaso
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Oct 20, 2010
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Nov 23, 2008
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Apr 19, 2008
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Mar 02, 2011
Elektra
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I think this might be my Favorite Tom Clancy book by far. Mostly because you get to see a recurring character fro other novels make his start, no matter how sad and polluted it is. And you watch what he is willing to do for a woman he loved for even a short time. Now think about how lethal he would be to the rest of the world. It is all a matter of how you look at it. If we could act on our own soil, the drug trade would have been done years ago, so would the trade of people. Just THINK about it
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Dec 05, 2008
Greg
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Maybe this illuminates some of the darkness in my own heart, but I could hardly put this book down until I finished it. Without Remorse is a who-dunnit with amazing action-adventure, well-written characters, and often dark psychological drama. It showcases John Kelly, the Vietnam vet and Special Forces legend who by the end of the novel becomes John Clark, CIA superspy. If you like the Jason Bourne novels, this is another in that vein, and one you won't be able to put down.
Sep 15, 2011
Tina
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Tom Clancy is a masterful writer, and I used to save his books for the long December or summer school breaks. Now that I don't have that luxury, I'm more than happy to have audiobooks! When I started listening to this, it was quickly apparent that I had already read it. But what else do I have to do for 3 hours a day in the car, so I listened. So well done! But much more graphic to listen to than to read. Some parts were tough; need a few calluses to get through this one. Worth it.
Sep 01, 2011
Antonio
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this book is why i bother reading anything, in the vein/vain hope i find something this good again. a tale of righteous retribution played out in a dark world occupied by someone who believes in something far greater than himself. In typical Clancy style not a detail goes by that isn't thoroughly researched and lovingly woven into the tale. I know that last line probably scared some folks off but for those of us who love to know the why and the how it is a welcome indulgence.
Nov 04, 2010
Zare
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Clancy's novel introducing early years of John Clark. Returnee from the Navy, Clark, Vietnam war veteran tries to live normal life when he comes across a lady in distress. After failing to save her life Clark decides to start hunting those responsible (very much like Creasy from A.J. Quinnell series of novels).[return]In the meantime US government will try to recruit him once more to lead a daring mission to save US POWs (Son Tay like raid).[return][return]Recommended.
Jul 27, 2008
Janet
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Chronologically speaking, Without Remorse is the first in the Jack Ryan/John Clark Series of Tom Clancy Books so I’ve back tracked a bit from Red October, the first published, to the first in the story line-up. I was forewarned by my friend Melinda, also an avid and interesting adventure reader, that there were unsavory elements in this particular novel that I might wish to avoid. She was indeed right about that. Adult situations, sexual and other violence, prostitution, drugs, crooked law enfo
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May 03, 2011
Aj
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Really great story, and as expected with Clancy, great writing and details. I had two major problems with it. Firstly, the book was something like 750 pages and it really wasn't a long enough story to need all 750 pages. It could have probably been condensed down to less than 500. So many pages felt like filler or unnecessary detail. Secondly, there must have been more than 40 or 50 character names dropped, and the majority of those being important enough to the story to be brought up twice
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