The Bear and the Dragon (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tom Clancy
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Political fiction, Adventure, Spy fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Communism or communists, Twentieth century, Washington, D.C., Presidents, China or Chinese people, Russia or Russian people, Oil wells or oil-well drilling, Gold
- Locales: Washington, D.C., China
Ryan, the nonpartisan citizen president, has been reelected, but his negative attitude toward career and typical politicians has not softened. His major advisers, the secretaries of the treasury and defense, are wealthy self-made businessmen, who bring their private enterprise acumen to their departments. Early in the novel, a Japanese American secret CIA agent, whose cover is selling Japanese computers in the People's Republic of China, has seduced the secretary of Fang Gan, a member of the Chinese Communist politburo or governing council, dominated by Zhang Han San, thus giving the...
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