A virtuoso display of page-turning talent.' Sunday Express If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same.
A direct sequel to Executive Orders, President. Tired of what they view as the presumption of the West, eager to fulfill their destiny, they are taking matters into their own hands. The Bear and the Dragon is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on August 21, 2000. For even while Russian investigators pursue the case, and some of his most trusted eyes and ears, including antiterrorism specialist John Clark, head to Moscow, forces in China are moving forward with a plan of truly audacious proportions. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here? Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the potential assassins. Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn the Asian economy is going down the tubes and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR - the former KGB - with a rocket-propelled grenade. 2 million first printing BOMC main selection author tour.President Jack Ryan faces an international crisis that threatens the security of the whole world. Add to that the excitement for Clancy fans of this being the first novel to feature not just Jack Ryan but also, in significant subordinate roles, Jack Clark and Ding Chavez of Rainbow Six and other tales, and you've got a juggernaut that's going to hit #1 its first week out and stay there for a good while. Each thread carries a handbook's worth of intoxicating, expertly researchedDseemingly insideDinformation, about advanced weapons of war and espionage, about how various governments work, complemented always with ponderings about the tensions between individual honor and the demands of state. With aplomb, he spins numerous plot strandsDamong them: a Sino-American spy seduces his way into Politburo secrets enormous oil and gold reserves are discovered in Siberia the new Papal Nuncio to Beijing is murdered the Politburo orders a hit on a top Russian officialDthat lead to a Chinese invasion of Russia and a credible war scenario that occupies the novel's last quarter and that culiminates in a nuclear crescendo. Clancy has demonstrated in earlier books (Rainbow Six, etc.) that he towers above other novelists in his ability to deliver geo-political, techo-military goods on a global scaleDand here he's at the top of that war-gaming. Mostly, though, it's because that sea glitters with undeniable authority.
Partly it's for the sheer bulkDif ever a book should come equipped with wheels, it's this oneDwhich plunges readers into a sea of words so vast that, after hours of paddling happily through brisk prose, the horizon remains hidden from sight. domestic pitfalls await him at every turn theres a revolution in Liberia the Asian.
This exceptional combination of intense action involves politics, economics and (of course) military forces, in what is definitly one of Clancy’ most. Nor is it for the author's (expressed) understanding of life's viscissitudes in this Clancyverse, no white hat with a name dies, but every black hat gets whupped bad. Newly elected, Jack Ryan has found that being President is not easy. Fans of War Thrillers will already know Tom Clancy as a kind of demi-God, so won’t be surprised to hear that The Bear and The Dragon is nothing short of spectacular. Nor is it for any modulation in the arc of its action, which moves insistently from standstill to hurtle. "Klingons" is how hero Jack Ryan describes the villainsDthe Communist Chinese PolitburoDof Clancy's mammoth new novel other Yanks refer to Chinese soldiers as "Joe Chinaman." It's not for subtlety of characterization, then, that this behemoth proves so relentlessly engrossing.
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