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Title: Red Rabbit by Dennis Boutsikaris, Tom Clancy ISBN: 0-553-71310-8 Publisher: Random House Audio Pub. Date: 06 August, 2002 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.08 (535 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Clancy's Nostalgia
Comment: Red Rabbit seems to be a nostalgic return to Clancy's roots. I suspect he misses the thrill of writing The Hunt for Red October and Cardinal of the Kremlin. He certainly refers to the latter enough times although they never touch base.
I read the Penguin edition which is over 900 pages and disappointed me from page 200 on. The back cover states that "he quickly finds himself debriefing a Soviet defector with an extraordinary story to tell...." I am not sure what they mean by 'quickly' but for me it meant sooner than page 800. I kept waiting for Ryan to interview the guy so we could get on with the suspense but it never happened. The first 700 pages dragged on repetitively and finally Ryan meets the Rabbit only to learn what they guessed 400 pages earlier - the KGB wants to assassinate the Pope. Off to Rome we go for a quick wrap-up and some linguini.
What was the point of this book? It wasn't suspense - we knew before we started that the Pope's life was in danger and that the Rabbit would convey that information. Hence we knew the Rabbit would escape the USSR. Certainly the conclusion couldn't have been the point because it lacks cohesion and any sense of suspense. Shouldn't we be worried about the Pope being assassinated? It seems that in writing about the past Clancy has become trapped in his alter ego of historian and tells this story as though it were history. History may be decided upon but suspense novels should create the illusion that anything is possible.
Even the small details of the subplot fail to find resolution. Clancy spends 20 pages complaining about the British medical system but we never learn the result of Lady Ryan's complaining to the supervisor about the other doctors going out for lunch in the middle of an operation and having a few beers. If you are going to include such vindictive at least make it appear to be part of the plot and tell us what happened.
This book made me want to read Cardinal of the Kremlin but I doubt I will bother picking up The Masque of the Red Death which will surely be the title of his next book. I'll stick to Poe. Overall a disappointing return to Clancy's past glory. They say you can never go home. Clancy tried but got waylaid somewhere in Bulgaria.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not a Good Book....
Comment: Red Rabbit starts out with a younger Jack Ryan moving back to England to work for the British version of the CIA thanks to Sir Basil Charleston and Admiral James Greener. Now in Moscow, Mary and Pat Foley are in Moscow as spies, but undercover for the CIA. In the Kremlin, one of the major KGB agents discover that the Pope is talking about retiring the Papacy and returing to Poland (which then was part of the Soviet Republic), and if does go back to Poland, it is possible that the Socalist government there is going to collapse, so the KGB orders the assassination of the Pope. So while on a train home, Pat is given a note by a worker who works in the KGB, and so Pat finds out the truth; the KGB wants to kill the Pope!
So now, the case is transfered to Jack Ryan, who helps get the informant out of the Soviet Union, and WITHOUT the KGB knowing! They think that he went on vacation! Now, Jack is assigned to the case, and so he heads to Italy to stop the assassination from happening, he is too late, and the Pope is shot, but it was a failed assassination! So now Jack goes back home, and that is the end.
So why is this book bad? One, Tom Clancy adds NO SUSPENSE! The ending feels VERY RUSHED, and Tom Clancy just spends his time; all 623 pages of it, talking about how the Pope is going to be assassinated, and when you get to page 20, you know the whole plot and how it is going to end. Tom Clancy spends too much time giving us detail, and not enough action, reading Red Rabbit is like The Sum Of All Fears without the huge suspense ending with the nuclear bomb, and the nuclear standoff against America and the Russians. Dont read this book, this is not the Tom Clancy who wrote great novels like The Sum Of All Fears and The Hunt For Red October.
Rating: 1
Summary: Typical Clan$ey
Comment: A 100 page, marginal, novel 'compressed' into over 600 pages, apparently to ju$tify the $8.00 price. Perhaps worth 99cents - or the value of a sleeping pill. Long, long LONG, needless descriptions of ...... nothing. Repetitious. Boring. Slow moving. He wants to convey to the reader (the few suckers there might be of us) that he knows about the ..... one time pad! And it's not a Maxi-pad. This is a 600+ page book that you will get mad about reading about page 200, but since you've invested all of that reading time, you'll keep hoping for somethng to pique your interest. You might get it in the last 50 pages or so. Maybe.
I wasted my money. More importantly, I wasted my time.
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