Without Remorse

This book is good for three reasons. One, it's not a Jack Ryan story. It tells us how John Clark came into being, who he is and what he is, and the plot actually happens roughly 15-20 years before the main series. Two, Vietnam, so it's low tech and gritty Ramboism. Three, Tom Clancy normally wrote Pur......more

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 s......more

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......more

What a fantastic book. Having seen Hunt For Red October/Patriot Games/Sum of all Fears at the movies and finding them to be good movies I thought I'd try out the actual books. Hating to start in the middle of a series I decided if I'm going to read a Tom Clancy book I might as well start at the begi......more

This is our first meeting with John Clark...if you follow Clansy's novels that tells you the back ground on this one. This novel is quite a bit more violent than some of Clancy's other works (that's saying something I know) but that will hold true for the Clark centered novels in the series. You get f......more