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Command Authority (Jack Ryan Universe, #16)
Command Authority (Jack Ryan Universe, #16)
Tom Clancy | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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It is a shame the world lost such a great story teller as Tom Clancy. I have loved the Jack Ryan series and the latest installment [Command Authority] did not disappoint.

The characters are so good they are like meeting old friends and I love how Jack Jr. has grown into his own. Also the plot of this one with the Russians returning as the antagonists, especially attacking the Ukraine, was timely.

As with all Clancy's books a must read!
  
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
1990 | Action, Mystery
This was one of those movies (which is now over 30 years old!) that I knew about, but had just never gotten around to watching before.

I have now and, honestly? It's not that great.

Based on a Tom Clancy novel of the same name (one of his Jack Ryan novels) and starring both Alec Baldwin (as Ryan) and Sean Connery (as the Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius), this purports to be a thriller about, well, The Hunt for Red October (it's in the title, folks!), a new state of the art Soviet sub that is virtually undetectable and in which Ramius is in charge, with his motivations somewhat murky: is he defecting (it's set during the Cold War)? Is he preparing to launch a strike on the US mainland? Why is a Scot pretending to be Russian??

I have to say, I did find it somewhat slow and ponderous, lacking any real threat or even any means of engaging the viewers interest!