Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99807 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-28
• Binding: Paperback
• 944 pages

Synopsis
Tom Clancy returns to Jack Ryan's early days, in an extraordinary novel of global political drama. Long before becoming President, Jack Ryan is a novice CIA Analyst. One of his first assignments is to debrief a high-level Soviet defector who tells an amazing tale of officials planning to assassinate Pope John Paul II. In the end, however, it will not just be the Pope's life, but the stability of the Western world that is at stake.

Customer Reviews

Way Below Clancy's Usual Level....
I read most of Clancy's books... if you are a Clancy fan, dont go for this one.... slow, unimaginative, and predictable... go and buy "The Cardinal of the Kremlin" instead , by Clancy as well... there's a real spy thriller...

Dross
Clancy used to be my guilty pleasure, the guy I read when my brain was tired of deeper material. Crash, bang, wallop, the good guys always win and enough a plot that (mostly) to hide the general shallowness of the characters. But Red Rabbit is astonishingly one-dimensional and poorly written for a man who is capable of much better. I will drop this back at the charity shop where it belongs and re-read Without Remorse and maybe Red Storm Rising to remind myself that this guy can write a decent yarn when he's on form.

Could not finish
I never was unsympathetic to the Clancy world view though mine is perhaps more tempered. However, I could not finish this book as it was just numbing. A terrible disappointment after his previous tension filled page turners. His view of Britain is a bit 1950s Pinewood fantasy of a place that never existed. I also agree this was something of a polemic and that never makes easy reading even you do agree with the basic thrust. I would not recommend this book and gave mine away to a second hand book shop as it was just taking up shelf space.