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The Bear and the Dragon Tom Clancy

Time and again, Tom Clancys novels have been praised not only for their bigscale drama and propulsive narrative drive but for their cuttingedge prescience in predicting future eventsIn The Bear and the Dragon, the future is very near at hand indeedNewly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; theres a revolution in Liberia; the Asian economy is going down the tubes; and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVRthe former KGBwith a rocketpropelled grenade Things are unstable enough in Russia without highlevel assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the potential assassins Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, or disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here?Ryan is right For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops specialist John Clark, to find out the truth of the matter, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same If they failthe consequences will be unspeakableBlending the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, razorsharp suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters, this is Clancy at his bestand there is none better