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The Bear and the Dragon (John Clark #3)

Tom Clancy

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Rating: 3.83 | 24285 Users | 504 Reviews

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Title	:	The Bear and the Dragon (John Clark #3)
Author	:	Tom Clancy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1137 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2001 by Berkley Books (first published August 21st 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Spy Thriller. Espionage

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Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.

In The Bear and the Dragon, the future is very near at hand indeed.

Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; there's a revolution in Liberia; the Asian economy is going down the tubes; and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR--the former KGB--with a rocket-propelled grenade. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the potential assassins. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, or disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here?

Ryan is right. For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops specialist John Clark, to find out the truth of the matter, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions. If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same. If they fail...the consequences will be unspeakable.

Blending the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, razor-sharp suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters, this is Clancy at his best--and there is none better.

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Original Title:	The Bear and the Dragon
ISBN:	0425180964 (ISBN13: 9780425180969)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	John Clark #3, Jack Ryan Universe #11, Jack Ryan Universe (Publication Order) #10 , more

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This book was a bit of a mess. I love the Jack Ryan character, and Tom Clancy knows how to build slow momentum towards a big climax. However, much of this book was just boring, patently racist, and disturbing in its inability to pull the whole story together with a human dimension in the end. The end is pretty good as an outline of plot. but it lacks all the great dynamics that can come together when tension has been resolved or when a big bad thing has happened. It's only because of the last

This will be the last Clancy book I read. His writing has gotten sloppy, and his personal politics have taken over his story lines. I'd like to think he was a better writer than this back in his "Hunt for Red October" and "Cardinal of the Kremlin" days - and that my love for his writing wasn't purely a lack of maturity on my part.Bear & Dragon has all of the granular over-detailed descriptions of every little working part of every military piece of hardware one would expect, with a

Definately not my favorite Tom Clancy novel. It took a while for the plot to unravel, and even then it was a little bit of a stretch. Took too long to get the real battle, and once there it was over too quickly and too hokey. Clancy is usually rock-solid on this stuff, but missed the mark on this one. Not horrible by any means - still finished it, at least - but definately a couple notches below what i would expect from Tom.

Ok, so I've read probably half a dozen Clancy novels over the course of time, most recently this and Executive Orders.What's interesting is that today, in 2013, how wrong Clancy has been about practically everything, from both foreign and domestic policy. Clancy has made a career of using an encyclopedic knowledge of weapons systems to create spy and military dramas, with no small amount of flag-waving.But eventually, it grows tiresome. In the case of The Bear and the Dragon, it becomes flat out

Clancy's newest Ryan opus is somewhat of a disappointment in comparison to his past stories. For the record, I am a rabid Clancy fan and always grab his newest book on the first day. I have enjoyed every novel he has written, and still consider him to be my favorite author.This time around however, I'm not satisfied with the novel as a whole. Maybe the quality of his past works has set the bar too high for me to enjoy any subsequent attempts. In any case, here's my take on this book:1)Roll Call:

Fictional conflict between Russia and the People's Republic of China. President Ryan, upon finding intel that the Chinese were planning a hasty invasion of far eastern Siberia, asks NATO to allow Russian entry, so Russia, fragmented after the collapse of the USSR would be under NATO protection. NATO agree's and Russia is allowed entry. The PLA skeptical about the NATO-Russian alliance goes ahead with preset invasion plans. The NATO response is a destroyed PLA Navy by US carrier fighters, the