My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Tom Clancy is an amazing writer, I am always surprised by how much I like his books. He does a great job of giving you a feeling of the military teams, attitudes and technology without being over-your-head with the terms and lingo.
This books started out with some world building and character building but quickly introduced “teasers” for the main plot. Once the main plot was revealed the action was non-stop to the end of the book. My problem is more with the choice of enemies (environmental terrorists) than with the actions or reactions of characters in the book.
The “bad guys” want to wipe out all life on earth to save the earth and return it to their natural state. They are willing to go to extremes (bio-terrorism) to achieve this. However most of their views and beliefs weren’t the fanatical dedication I would have expected. They drove Hummers around their compound, talked about getting bear-skin or lion-skin rugs, and utilized all manner of electricity and technology to live comfortably. Now maybe this is just an expression that you can never really tell who the terrorists are, but to me it seemed that they just wanted to create an elite society and the environmental stuff was tacked on at the end since its a “hot button issue”
The most annoying thing in the book was Clancy’s interchange of the words vegan and vegetarian. As a vegetarian for 15 years I can tell you that there is a major difference between those two terms and neither one of them include eating pastrami…. To be so precise with the military side, it seemed sloppy to me to not have this clarified.
Overall I extremely enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone who likes a fast-paced novel. The military stuff was not over the top and should be accessible to anyone who has seen a recent action movie.
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