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ptothelo's review against another edition
2.0
His books were much more fun when they were more about adventures and spies, the pragmatists vs the politicians. Since Rainbow Six it has been more about this vs. that type of politicians, what he posits as crazy idealists (eco-terrorists, environmentalists) vs. sane idealists (people do what need to be done to protect the country). I know people don't usually read thrillers for political nuance and he is entitled to his opinions but the heavy-handedness really bothered me. I think he presents an important perspective of the war on terror, but I feel like he undermines himself when he trashes others' viewpoints and casts them as insane/stupid. And the editing was poor, just simple things like missing quotation marks and random colons. At one point one person was tailing the suspect but then his name was confused with the name of the other team of agents who were not in the scene.
eniemi's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
4.0
This is what you’d expect for a Tom Clancy story. Intense political thriller, with layers of characters and events coming together at the end. Lou Diamond Phillips provided great narration for the audiobook.
duparker's review against another edition
3.0
Eh... 2.5 Stars. Fine, but lacking in substance
So,I think I might be done with this series. The political scrub detracts from the story and I miss Jack Ryan. The clandestine stuff and anti Muslim innuendo is to heavy and feels like jingoism, not storytelling.
So,I think I might be done with this series. The political scrub detracts from the story and I miss Jack Ryan. The clandestine stuff and anti Muslim innuendo is to heavy and feels like jingoism, not storytelling.
lmmountford's review against another edition
1.0
This was my third, and probably last) attempt to read a Clancy novel and again i failed to make it even a quarter of the way through.
Clancy Strikes me as author who never left the cold war behind. His every novel reads like propergander. Giving American characters jumped up characteristics and showing only credit to their allied nations but always empliying USA superiority while ensuring the bad guys are always far below the par. It's comical.
Clancy Strikes me as author who never left the cold war behind. His every novel reads like propergander. Giving American characters jumped up characteristics and showing only credit to their allied nations but always empliying USA superiority while ensuring the bad guys are always far below the par. It's comical.
papidoc's review against another edition
3.0
Twice as long as it needed to be, with frequent sidetracks into Clancy's (or his co-author's) political and philosophical views. War, as someone once said, is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. Dead or Alive was something like that. It's not as tightly or coherently written as his previous books, and felt more like an amateur novel than I have come to expect from Clancy. Too bad.
kstumpf's review against another edition
4.0
Typical Clancy. There are some totally unneeded pages and/or chapters. BUT the overall story was well developed. The plot twists were reasonable and believable.
rajue's review against another edition
Früher waren die Clancys mal gut, den aktuellen Titeln kann ich aber nichts mehr abgewinnen. 0815 Thriller.
john_raine's review against another edition
1.0
hilariously bad. needed a bridge book over a quick vacation and picked this up at the free bookstore. far cry from clancy's best (Red October, Cardinal in the Kremlin). The writing was clumsy; there were parts that were overtly clumsy and politically preachy. It was entertaining in a way, but it was a 900 page trainwreck.