Clark's mission is to derail the Chinese, while Ryan and the United States race against time to avert a nuclear war. What follows is nonstop action that includes the return of an earlier, much darker Clancy character, ex-Navy SEAL and top CIA agent-assassin John Clark. When China attempts to destabilize Russia in order to invade Siberia and seize its precious gold and oil reserves, the proverbial crisis hits the ventilator. Meanwhile, the China that has emerged from the shadow of Mao is a troublesome and genuinely threatening international bully with global ambitions, a disgraceful disregard for human rights and a growing hostility toward the United States as a result of failed trade talks and subsequent financial embargoes.Ĭlancy builds the plot of "The Bear and the Dragon" out of these combustible elements. Although the Russian bear is still an uneasy bedfellow, the leaders of the world's latest major experiment in democracy have too much trouble coping with their own Mafia to be preoccupied by any prospective showdown with the United States.
"The Bear and the Dragon," which runs to more than 1,000 pages, also anticipates what is likely to be the latest trouble spot for U.S. Whether writing about the war on drugs, deployment of the "Star Wars" missile defense system, terrorism in the Middle East, the Irish Republican Army, trade wars with Japan, the threat of nuclear confrontation with Russia or biological warfare, Clancy has managed to stay one step ahead of real-world events in his meticulously plotted novels.
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Media hype aside, the reasons for Tom Clancy's extraordinary success are on full display in his latest thriller, "The Bear and the Dragon." Clancy creates not merely compelling characters but also realistic "what if" situations that are, at times, frighteningly topical. In the next Clancy film, Ben Affleck will play Ryan.
Ryan is also closely identified with actor Harrison Ford, who has played the role in two films of Clancy's earlier novels, "Patriot Games" and "A Clear and Present Danger." And this has created a whole subset of media frenzy in matters Clancy: The volatile novelist has not only clashed with the producers of his films but has publicly repudiated the popular star's characterization of his hero. Now he is president of the United States. In the course of seven previous Jack Ryan novels, the ex-Marine and CIA analyst, who once taught history at the Naval Academy, eventually rose to head the CIA. Barnes & countered with its "Tom Clancy Superstore," which proclaimed, "President Jack is back!" First introduced in "The Hunt for Red October," Clancy's smart and likable hero, Jack Ryan, has become one of the best-known characters in contemporary American fiction. A video game and a film are likely to follow, along with an appearance by the author on "Larry King Live." Several weeks prior to publication, Clancy's latest book was already ranked No. Enormous publicity heralds the simultaneous publication of an audio book version, a large-print edition, numerous book club editions and a signed limited edition at $150. The advent of a new Tom Clancy novel has become more than an eagerly awaited publishing event-it has exploded into a publishing phenomenon.
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