Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan Novels)

by Tom Clancy
Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan Novels)
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3375 ratings, 3.75 average rating, 75 reviews (more data...)
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published
July 1st 1990 by Berkley

binding
Paperback, 704 pages

isbn
0425122123   (isbn13: 9780425122129)

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At the end of the prologue to Clear and Present Danger, Clancy writes, "And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon...more






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Eddie
04/14/08

bookshelves: novels
Read in January, 2005
This has to be among the Clancy classics. I recommend this to any military or political buff. Clancy definitely rocks the house with this one.
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Janet
10/05/08

Read in October, 2008
recommends it for: Patriots, Adventure Readers
I must confess, I am on the Clancy jazz now. Clear and Present Danger the novel blows away C&PD the movie just like a Pave Low lll helicopter firing miniguns on bad guys (scene from the book). Well perhaps not quite that dramatic as there are some fine correlations with the movie, yet there is so much more. The terrain is familiar to me as our heroes fly in and out of Eglin AFB, Hurlburt Field, and the Pensacola Naval Air Station….soaring out over the white sands and emerald waters of the ...more
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Hari
09/21/07

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 "menyolongkan diri" he he he....

terlihat disini juga uncle sam dengan seenak udelnya sendiri mengobok-obok negara berdaulat lain, gak peduli apapun alasannya... sikat terus.... buku ini juga mirip2 dengan kasus contra - iran yg juga melibatkan CIA...more
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Ugik013
Read in September, 2001
recommends it for: novita maizir
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, misi kahirnya dihentikan namun pasukan yang terlanjur dikirim diputus logistik dan bantuannya sehingga mereka akhirnya terkepung dan menyerah kepada pasukan setempat, jack ryan harus turun tangan sen...more
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Sean
11/24/08

Read in January, 1995
By this point I'd come to realize how formulaic and lame Clancy was
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Black Samvara
Dated badly. I could read Tom Clancy novels 10 years ago with enjoyment but with the last five years of US political and military history it's impossible for even me to suspend disbelief. [return:][return:]Which is a shame, because I like a good techno-thriller and I'm very fond of Clark and Chavez. [return:][return:]US special forces versus Colombian drug lords. This would work better if it wasn't quite so obvious that the War Against Drugs is a mind bogglingly stupid idea.
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Jared
11/13/08

Read in October, 2008
This book is a great adventure story about crazy secreat missions and political madness and i really liked it. This story is about the cartel's in columbia that really hate the usa, then the fbi leader gets asassinated and it is all out war. special ops groups gewt sent it and it turns into the perfect war novel. It was a great book for me because i really like these type of books but others might like it as much.
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German
09/28/08

Drugs, violence, the american good guys and off course the mafia.....yeah this is my Colombia!!!!...A republican and very inocent way to see a country so complicated like Colombia...the single fact that Clancy changes the name of Escobar is a joke (somebody to know a guy with a surname like Escobedo?? come on!!!)....this book, the Arnold´s movie and the sequence of XXX´´s movie in Colombia are very silly
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Chris
bookshelves: abandoned
I've never made it through a single Clancy book. I tried picking this one up, as I needed a good summer book and I'd been enjoying Cussler, only to discover that Clancy is definately NOT Cussler. These days, I can only think of how Fox kept interviewing him after September 11th, as if he was an important international expert.
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Pelagicunicorn
bookshelves: currently-reading
Read in October, 2008
recommended to Pelagicunicorn by: America
recommends it for: Navy Seals
Pretty good. Too many flocks of characters to try to remember, and they are all the same. Government / FBI / military special ops guys. About 30 men and 2 incidental women so far. There is so much underlying build-up, no event coul dlive up to the promise. Yeah, I am still reading it. It is still a pretty good book.
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Antonio
Read in January, 1994
I thought I'd be bored to tears with all the military babble, but not so, no indeed. Some of Clancy's other stuff can get tres dry, but this one clips along. Had me hooked from the first page describing the desk of the President of the United States (from what I remember). Sounds boring, but isn't.
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Chris
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04/14/08

bookshelves: general-fiction
I got really hooked on this book. I've read a few other Clancy ones but this one was the best one that I've read. I like the ending and how it was different than in the movie particularly how the enemy intelligence agent meets his end. Good writing.
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Abhishek
Read in June, 2007
i totally loved this book, right from the beginning i couldnt stop turning the pages. right from the AG's assasination to the raid Clark executes against Cortez. this book i saction packed and i would suggest it as one of clancy' s best books.
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Sam
06/06/07

Read in March, 1992
Either this book or "Red Storm Rising" is my favorite Clancy book. This is where you meet Ding Chavez and get to know some of Clark's background. I haven't read this in years, but I hope to read it again soon.
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Irene
09/25/07

there is a stage when you think that clancy is your man, and you read several of his books and you suddenly feel nausea. The same plot, the same man,the same heroism. The familiarity makes you puke.
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Jon
07/16/08

Read in January, 1998
I liked this one a lot when I was younger. It still makes me want to be a light-infantry soldier. The moral quandries in this one are done much better than in his later works.
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angrykitty
bookshelves: grocery-store, its-a-movie
good book. the whole war on drugs thing is intersting. on a side note, i found out recently that a guy i work with is the basis for one of the main military characters. weird.
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david
03/19/07

bookshelves: supermarketlit
If you're looking for a political thriller, an everyday-man as your hero, and terrorists who almost get away with everything until the very end, then this is a good book to read.
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Eko
06/19/08

bookshelves: currently-reading
Read in March, 2008
membosankan. terlalu bertele-tele dan terlampau banyak tokoh. padahal ketika beli, membayangkan cerita yang seru seperti dalam film, hehehe... agak kecewa juga.
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Paul
04/17/08

Read in January, 1997
Like all the other Jack Ryan books, it's a great story, but the moral dilemma of attacking the drug lords and collateral damage is beaten to death in the story.
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