A review by hawkeyegough
Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy

2.0

This book did not age well. The dust jacket says it was published in 2003, but it takes place in the early '80s and feels as though it was written in the 1500s at times. A mediocre spy thriller layered with racism and some over the top rah-rah politicism that really didn't feel as though it belonged. And finally

Spoiler

what was the purpose of all the "British surgeons get drunk at work during surgery!" angle?

It really felt like a tacked-on awkward attack on centralized healthcare that had nothing to do with the rest of the book. I wish Clancy had focused more on espionage and less on some BS political agenda that doesn't even have any internal logic, much less relevance to the plot he's crafted. A rare miss for a master of political intrigue.