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A review by lmmountford
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
2.0
To say i was disappointed would be an understatement. Now I'm going to try and be fair, this was written in 86 after all and the cold war still had some chill in it, so if i was 50-70 this would probably be a cracking read, or if i was an American i'd love it. This is really just a slightly reimagined world war 2 that basically features NATO being 90% American and the Russians (sometimes they are refered to as soviets but all the reds are Russian) taking the role as Germany.
Now to start off with the positive, there was plenty of action war scenes. That's about it.
There is no real central characters, just names with little back story who'll you'll forget with a turn of the page. As i said the story is mostly just key events of ww2 rewritten. And, of course, as this is Tom Clancy, the story features prominently American characters to such an extent i wonder why he even bothered to call the forces NATO.
Now to start off with the positive, there was plenty of action war scenes. That's about it.
There is no real central characters, just names with little back story who'll you'll forget with a turn of the page. As i said the story is mostly just key events of ww2 rewritten. And, of course, as this is Tom Clancy, the story features prominently American characters to such an extent i wonder why he even bothered to call the forces NATO.