And everyone uses them, from the President on down. Not against blacks, of course - Clancy wouldn't want to be accused of being a racist (and he's even got a black vice-president, of course an old military guy (as everyone in Ryan's administration is - except for those who are Wall Street billionaires). The racial slurs in this book come thick and heavy. And politicizing the book to such an extend will turn off a hell of a lot of readers.Īnd that brings up another point. But I assume he attempts to write for a wide audience, not just his own type of conservative, pax americana, 'tanks give me a hard-on' type of crew. If he'd been a flaming commie, and anyone in a business suit got referred to as a capitalist pig, I'd complain too. ALL positions his characters espouse (at least the positive characters, anyway) are conservative, and all are heavily militaristic 'hawks'. And I've seen a far, far better presentation of and defense of the conservative position right here in the Soap Box than Clancy's book (which is probably a commentary on both the posters in the Soap Box, to their credit, and on Clancy, to the detriment of his).Īs an example, every single time anyone refers to anyone with any concern for ecology or the environment, they are dismissively referred to as 'tree-huggers', and the disdain for them (and the lack of understanding for any of their positions) is complete. Not only that, but Clancy uses him, as well as almost every other character of importance to preach his political views, repeatedly, unconvincingly, and monotonously. President Ryan (what's Clancy gonna do next, promote him to God?) is a complete and utterly predictable bore, as in the last book. The characters are one-dimensional cutouts, and poorly written (some of the dialogue made me laugh out loud, and it wasn't 'cause Clancy was trying to be funny). For a supposed thriller, the pace here is positively glacial. The first three quarters of this >1000 tome are nothing but soporific, sophomoric attempts at character development, along with overwhelming doses of Clancy's right-wing politics. Well, I can't say I expected much from this latest Clancy novel, not after the bloated disaster that was Executive Orders, but this tome was a clusterfuck (as Clancy always says somewhere in his book) of titanic literary proportions. My review of Clancy's The Bear and the Dragon:
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