Clear and Present Danger | Related Titles
Some critics refer to the "Jack Ryan series" of novels because Jack Ryan is a continuing character in Clancy's books. It seems clear that Clancy likes the Ryan character, who is both a man of action and a man of quiet deliberation. In suspense, Clear and Present Danger may outdo its predecessors; the consequences for mistakes in the story are even more horrible than the physician- run Soviet torture chambers in The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988). Enhancing the suspense in each novel is the knowledge that the underlying events are essentially true. People are raped,...
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