"Jack Ryan " Topic
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| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 11 Jun 2018 11:10 p.m. PST |
Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine and now John Krasinski. Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan is coming to Amazon Prime this fall: youtu.be/1KsyZF590NM |
| Winston Smith | 12 Jun 2018 12:00 a.m. PST |
I wish they would do Without Remorse. Faithfully. |
Ed Mohrmann  | 12 Jun 2018 6:22 a.m. PST |
A hearty second to that, Winston ! |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 12 Jun 2018 8:08 a.m. PST |
John Clark's a great character in the Ryan-verse. I've been reading the posthumously published Clancy novels featuring Jack Ryan's son (the imaginatively named Jack Ryan Jr.) as a Campus operative written by 'Gray Man' author Mark Greaney. They're not bad actually. |
| Winston Smith | 12 Jun 2018 9:05 a.m. PST |
In my opinion the Jack Ryan Jr novels are horrible. Well, at least the first one. It was like the Hardy Boys join the CIA. |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 12 Jun 2018 9:56 a.m. PST |
I don't think the early Campus novels were written by Greaney and I haven't read all of them. The ones I've read were 'Command Authority,' 'Threat Vector,' 'Full Force and Effect' and 'Commander in Chief,' all by Mark Greaney, and not bad IMO. Jack Jr. is not as interesting or compelling as his dad, granted, but Greaney did a good job in the limited sandbox he had to work with and he has a decent grasp of spycraft and geopolitics. They're better than Tom Clancy's later novels, though that's not saying much since Clancy's later works were so bad that it's hard to believe he actually wrote them. |
| Winston Smith | 12 Jun 2018 10:23 a.m. PST |
The quality of Clancy's work was inversely proportional to the page count. |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 12 Jun 2018 10:36 a.m. PST |
Agreed, but with one notable exception: Red Storm Rising. It's still the definitive novel of "What if?" WW3. |
| Ed Mohrmann | 14 Jun 2018 4:00 a.m. PST |
29mm Fanatik, right on target with that assessment
of Red Storm Rising. Best. Clancy. Ever. |
| Gunfreak | 22 Jun 2018 10:40 a.m. PST |
Rainbow six is quite good and quite long.
It's the only Clancy novel I've read. |
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