A review by bobmanasco
Locked On by Tom Clancy

3.0

There was a period of time, right after college, when I tore through all of the Tom Clancy oevre, and I've been mostly keeping up as he puts out new Jack Ryan novels. Some are better than others. They're kind of guilty pleasures, in that even the bad ones are still exciting and entertaining. I have to say, though, that while the books have always had a conservative bent to them, the more recent stories (including this novel) have gotten awfully heavy-handed on the politics. I do not enjoy that aspect of the story, even if I agree with some of the ideas. But, overall, I enjoyed this book in the same way that I would enjoy a James Bond or a Horatio Hornblower -- it's fun to read about the improbable exploits of a single larger-than-life near-superhero, working in the military and intelligence organizations of world entities about which I know I know next to nothing.