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Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
Author: Tom Clancy
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Red Rabbit Description
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780786240647
Format: Large Print
ISBN: 0786240644
Label: Thorndike Press
Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 887
Publication Date: 2002-10
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Studio: Thorndike Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780786240647
Format: Large Print
ISBN: 0786240644
Label: Thorndike Press
Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 887
Publication Date: 2002-10
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Studio: Thorndike Press
Editorial Review of Red Rabbit
Long before he was President or head of the CIA, before he fought terrorist attacks on the Super Bowl or the White House, even before a submarine named Red October made its perilous way across the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was an historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine temporarily living in England while researching a book. A series of deadly encounters with an IRA splinter group had brought him to the attention of the CIA's Deputy Director, Vice Admiral James Greer-as well as his counterpart with the British SIS, Sir Basil Charleston-and when Greer asked him if he wanted to come aboard as a freelance analyst, Jack was quick to accept. The opportunity was irresistible, and he was sure he could fit it in with the rest of his work.
And then Jack forgot all about the rest of his work, because one of his first assignments was to help debrief a high-level Soviet defector, and the defector told an amazing tale: Top Soviet officials, including Yuri Andropov, were planning to assassinate the Pope, John Paul II.
Could it be true? As the days and weeks go by, Ryan must battle, first to try to confirm the plot, and then to prevent it, but this is a brave new world, and nothing he has done up to now has prepared him for the lethal game of cat-and-mouse that is the Soviet Union versus the United States. In the end, it will be not just the Pope's life but the stability of the Western world that is at stake. . . and it may already be too late for a novice CIA analyst to do anything about it.
"Clancy creates not only compelling characters but frighteningly topical situations and heart-stopping action," wrote The Washington Post about The Bear and the Dragon. "Among the handful of superstars, Clancy still reigns, and he is not likely to be dethroned any time soon." These words were never truer than about the remarkable pages of his breathtaking new novel. This is Clancy at his best-and there is none better.
And then Jack forgot all about the rest of his work, because one of his first assignments was to help debrief a high-level Soviet defector, and the defector told an amazing tale: Top Soviet officials, including Yuri Andropov, were planning to assassinate the Pope, John Paul II.
Could it be true? As the days and weeks go by, Ryan must battle, first to try to confirm the plot, and then to prevent it, but this is a brave new world, and nothing he has done up to now has prepared him for the lethal game of cat-and-mouse that is the Soviet Union versus the United States. In the end, it will be not just the Pope's life but the stability of the Western world that is at stake. . . and it may already be too late for a novice CIA analyst to do anything about it.
"Clancy creates not only compelling characters but frighteningly topical situations and heart-stopping action," wrote The Washington Post about The Bear and the Dragon. "Among the handful of superstars, Clancy still reigns, and he is not likely to be dethroned any time soon." These words were never truer than about the remarkable pages of his breathtaking new novel. This is Clancy at his best-and there is none better.
Customer Reviews of Red Rabbit
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: My least favorite Jack Ryan
Review: This is one of the earlier books in the Jack Ryan enterprise. It starts off pretty slow and does not really take off like many of the others. Jack and Cathy Ryan have just moved to London with Sally and Jack Jr. The Foleys, Ed, Pat and Little Ed, have just started in Moscow. The Russians are crazy as ever and want to kill the Pope. A Russian communications expert gets a case of morals and wants to try and save the Pope. I should not say much more, or I will ruin the best part. I have read many Clancy's and this would not be in my top 5 but it does put a few things together so I am glad that I read it. I guess I would give it a C+.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Strike 2
Review: It is a shame no stars is not an option for rating. It would appear Clancy was attempting to write the screenplay of another Jack Ryan movie with this work.
With the high tension that was rampant between NATO and the Warsaw Pact during this time period, there was plenty of background to place many of the characters from his other books. And I had to laugh at Clancy's buildup of Ed Foley and the New York Times reporter, yet there was no further mention of this later in Foley's career. The NYT would have never lived down a sleeper CIA agent on their reporter staff.
Instead, we get a plodding story that is lacking virtually everything Clancy had become well known for.
...and it only gets worse with the TEETH OF THE TIGER.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Hubris at its finest
Review: Jack Ryan's evolution has followed that of the author. In the earlier books Jack Ryan was a well intentioned, if reluctant, hero who had a simple rubric for determining right from wrong. As Tom Clancy has "evolved" from a fiction writer to a "personality" we have seen Jack Ryan go from a simple CIA analyst to President of the free world. Along the way he became a foul mouthed, boorish individual who bases his decisions on Catholic doctrine and conservative dogma. I guess this is what happens when the author thinks people actually care what he thinks. This reader doesn't.
The saddest thing about this book is the depiction of Cathy Ryan. She once was depicted as a classy lady. Now she is a nasty individual who would easy (and fairly) characterized by the use of the "b" or "c" word. The only good thing about the book is her character disappeared half way through. It was one half too many.
My days of feeding Clancy's ego are over. He can get rich off other people who think what he says is important. He should take some lessons from John Grisham and build baseball fields in needy communities. And most importantly, keep his opinions to himself.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Jack Ryan getting tired
Review: The Ryan saga goes back in time. Clancy as usual gets long winded and seems to gt tired of the story by delivering a sub par ending. Overall a bit disappointing.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Just Awful
Review: This has to be the most turgid, dull, repetitive pile of absolute tosh I have read in years. Nothing more than a 600 page propaganda leaflet for the Republican Party, the US military industrial complex, privatised medicine, the Catholic church and whatever else Tom Clancy supports, it's a painful read that seems to never end.
Your mind will bend as you read Clancy's utterly lame attempts at mundane and repetitive dialog between people eating breakfast, drinking coffee and riding on trains and in taxis.
Your eyes will roll at each stab at the British healthcare system, which is "socialized medicine" for those of you reading in the United States. You might think Clancy hates the concept as much as he clearly hates Communists.
Everything else about Britain and the "Brits", meanwhile, he seems to love in an offensively patronising and condescending manner that will make you gag. Those "Brits" seem all to be ripped from central casting in their accents, actions, and universal love of liquid lunches. All appear to be ex-British military and most have one syllable names, in a reassuringly working class, honest guvna' fashion.
You will also squirm every time you read the word "pshrink", or "cutter", or "driver". You will wonder why you never hear people in real life with such limited vocabularies as the characters in his books. How bored you will be as you read again and again about those "eye cutters" from "Hopkins" who worked on Suslov's eyes under the direction of token Jewish man, Bernie Katz.
You will also shudder each time you are clumsily reminded that the Soviets have unwittingly given the code "666" to a plot to kill the Pope.
You will want to be sick every time Jack Ryan's tastes in coffee are mentioned, and when you are reminded how unbelievably smart he is to recognize that an up and coming company called Starbucks will be a huge success. You will also wonder where Ryan's Starbucks obsession was when he was chasing the Red October around the Atlantic and doing battle with drug cartels in Central America.
You will also find yourself wishing Jack Ryan hadn't survived that damn helicopter crash because you are so fed up of reading about it and how much he hates flying, a characteristic he apparently shares with B.A. Baracus. You almost start to hope someone would feed Ryan a hamburger in a brown paper bag and a carton of milk before he gets on a plane so he's not conscious to whine about it.
In using the fear-of-flying device, Clancy clearly wants us to believe that Ryan, a multi-millionaire who has killed IRA terrorists, invested in Starbucks in the early 80s, arrested a Bulgarian assasin, helped capture a Soviet ballistic missile submarine, and become President of the United States has at least one weakness that makes him at least somewhat the everyman among us.
Apart from the atrocious errors in history already mentioned (Clancy must have thought himself oh-so-clever to keep mentioning that young short stop Cal Ripken and hoped we would think him clever for it), you will wonder how an assasination attempt in 1981 happened after the 1982 Falklands War.
Finally, you will wonder what the heck ever happened to Tom Clancy, when exactly the point in time was that his ego overtook his limited writing skills and why exactly he thinks smart people will part with good money to read bad books with his name on them.
Review Summary: My least favorite Jack Ryan
Review: This is one of the earlier books in the Jack Ryan enterprise. It starts off pretty slow and does not really take off like many of the others. Jack and Cathy Ryan have just moved to London with Sally and Jack Jr. The Foleys, Ed, Pat and Little Ed, have just started in Moscow. The Russians are crazy as ever and want to kill the Pope. A Russian communications expert gets a case of morals and wants to try and save the Pope. I should not say much more, or I will ruin the best part. I have read many Clancy's and this would not be in my top 5 but it does put a few things together so I am glad that I read it. I guess I would give it a C+.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Strike 2
Review: It is a shame no stars is not an option for rating. It would appear Clancy was attempting to write the screenplay of another Jack Ryan movie with this work.
With the high tension that was rampant between NATO and the Warsaw Pact during this time period, there was plenty of background to place many of the characters from his other books. And I had to laugh at Clancy's buildup of Ed Foley and the New York Times reporter, yet there was no further mention of this later in Foley's career. The NYT would have never lived down a sleeper CIA agent on their reporter staff.
Instead, we get a plodding story that is lacking virtually everything Clancy had become well known for.
...and it only gets worse with the TEETH OF THE TIGER.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Hubris at its finest
Review: Jack Ryan's evolution has followed that of the author. In the earlier books Jack Ryan was a well intentioned, if reluctant, hero who had a simple rubric for determining right from wrong. As Tom Clancy has "evolved" from a fiction writer to a "personality" we have seen Jack Ryan go from a simple CIA analyst to President of the free world. Along the way he became a foul mouthed, boorish individual who bases his decisions on Catholic doctrine and conservative dogma. I guess this is what happens when the author thinks people actually care what he thinks. This reader doesn't.
The saddest thing about this book is the depiction of Cathy Ryan. She once was depicted as a classy lady. Now she is a nasty individual who would easy (and fairly) characterized by the use of the "b" or "c" word. The only good thing about the book is her character disappeared half way through. It was one half too many.
My days of feeding Clancy's ego are over. He can get rich off other people who think what he says is important. He should take some lessons from John Grisham and build baseball fields in needy communities. And most importantly, keep his opinions to himself.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Jack Ryan getting tired
Review: The Ryan saga goes back in time. Clancy as usual gets long winded and seems to gt tired of the story by delivering a sub par ending. Overall a bit disappointing.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Just Awful
Review: This has to be the most turgid, dull, repetitive pile of absolute tosh I have read in years. Nothing more than a 600 page propaganda leaflet for the Republican Party, the US military industrial complex, privatised medicine, the Catholic church and whatever else Tom Clancy supports, it's a painful read that seems to never end.
Your mind will bend as you read Clancy's utterly lame attempts at mundane and repetitive dialog between people eating breakfast, drinking coffee and riding on trains and in taxis.
Your eyes will roll at each stab at the British healthcare system, which is "socialized medicine" for those of you reading in the United States. You might think Clancy hates the concept as much as he clearly hates Communists.
Everything else about Britain and the "Brits", meanwhile, he seems to love in an offensively patronising and condescending manner that will make you gag. Those "Brits" seem all to be ripped from central casting in their accents, actions, and universal love of liquid lunches. All appear to be ex-British military and most have one syllable names, in a reassuringly working class, honest guvna' fashion.
You will also squirm every time you read the word "pshrink", or "cutter", or "driver". You will wonder why you never hear people in real life with such limited vocabularies as the characters in his books. How bored you will be as you read again and again about those "eye cutters" from "Hopkins" who worked on Suslov's eyes under the direction of token Jewish man, Bernie Katz.
You will also shudder each time you are clumsily reminded that the Soviets have unwittingly given the code "666" to a plot to kill the Pope.
You will want to be sick every time Jack Ryan's tastes in coffee are mentioned, and when you are reminded how unbelievably smart he is to recognize that an up and coming company called Starbucks will be a huge success. You will also wonder where Ryan's Starbucks obsession was when he was chasing the Red October around the Atlantic and doing battle with drug cartels in Central America.
You will also find yourself wishing Jack Ryan hadn't survived that damn helicopter crash because you are so fed up of reading about it and how much he hates flying, a characteristic he apparently shares with B.A. Baracus. You almost start to hope someone would feed Ryan a hamburger in a brown paper bag and a carton of milk before he gets on a plane so he's not conscious to whine about it.
In using the fear-of-flying device, Clancy clearly wants us to believe that Ryan, a multi-millionaire who has killed IRA terrorists, invested in Starbucks in the early 80s, arrested a Bulgarian assasin, helped capture a Soviet ballistic missile submarine, and become President of the United States has at least one weakness that makes him at least somewhat the everyman among us.
Apart from the atrocious errors in history already mentioned (Clancy must have thought himself oh-so-clever to keep mentioning that young short stop Cal Ripken and hoped we would think him clever for it), you will wonder how an assasination attempt in 1981 happened after the 1982 Falklands War.
Finally, you will wonder what the heck ever happened to Tom Clancy, when exactly the point in time was that his ego overtook his limited writing skills and why exactly he thinks smart people will part with good money to read bad books with his name on them.