Dec 31, 2009

Clear and Present Danger | Social Concerns

Clear and Present Danger focuses on the terrible problems created by the transportation and sale of illegal drugs to the United States. Although there are frequent references to the evils done to America's citizens by drugs — its young people in particular — the novel focuses primarily on the evils of rape, murder, torture, and theft committed by leaders of the Colombian drug cartel and their followers. Of Clancy's novels to date, Clear and Present Danger presents the most immediate portrait of cruelty and murder. Even Red Storm Rising's (1986) awful slaughter of...