Patriot Games

I did really enjoy this book. The ending was different and in my opinion much better than the movie. My negative comment for this book is actually the detail. Clancy at times can be so long winded about little details, It's fun at first, but this 540 page book could have told the same story in 400 pages without losing anything. I do love how well his writings have aged. This story could have been written today and been almost exactly the same.

This book is Clancy at some of his best. The action starts in the first chapter. In the chapter, CIA anylast Jack Ryan witnesses a shooting while vacationing in London. Jack interveines and kills two of the shooters. One shoots him in the shoulder and escapes. Later Jack learnes he saved the Prince of Wales, his wife, and their new son. He also learns that the attack was done by one of the most dangerous and secretive Irish terrorist organizations, the Ulster Liberation Army or ULA. Soon, Ryan and his family become a target of international terrorism. This book was exciting! A page turner indeed. Besides a few dull filler chapters, every chapter is as exciting as the previous. The smaller sub-plots provide action in every page. A bit long when you first look at it, but it is truly a thriller. Clancy is the king of detial. The man could write a 1,000 page story on a trip to the grocery store and still keep you entertained. Not that I want him to write this though. An all around great book! "Two Thumbs Up!"

I guess I shouldn't complain too much about Tom Clancy's books having a right wing bias. After all, there are plenty of other good authors out there who inject the opposite leanings into their works. Since I'm fashionably liberal myself, TC's political views tend to rub me the wrong way. Nevertheless, he still writes excellent thrillers, and Patriot Games is no exception. If you're new to Clancy's books, this is a good one to start with. One reason his stories are so good is that he always has things go wrong during tense situations. Someone's key piece of equipment fails or a communication is misunderstood, causing chaos. This brings a real-world flavor to his stories which make them quite believable. I thought this book had a good story and was exciting to the end. The development of Jack Ryan as a character is well done and continues throughout most of the other Clancy books.

This was truly a good book. It is about Jack Ryan and his family. Jack is on vacation in Britain when some terrerists start shooting the heck out of a Rolls Royce. Jack who is unarmed four-arm-shivers the guy and then gets shot. Then the castle gaurd comes and the attack is stopped. Jack recovers from his bullet wound the becomes the terrerists number 1 target. Led by Sean Miller these Irish terrerists are relentless and could care less about who they kill.

Es una novela increible de accion constante. Jack Ryan (el protagonista) es un tipo muy interesante en que es posible verlo como una persona normal de qualquier lugar. Tom Clancy hizo buen trabajo con los detalles de poner juntos todas las historias de gente diferentes en la novela. Pero ten cuidado, porque es largo y al empezarlo, quieran leerla al fin. Tambien recomiendo (Tom Clancy).