(9/13/2002) "Patriot Games" is still the best of the Jack Ryan novels, even after 15 years in print. It has less techno babble and more actual story and character development, making it more accessible to the average dope like me. The novels that followed this one--while certainly more ambitious and complex--always seemed like rather bloated exercises in overplotting, with Clancy never hesitating to go into mind-numbing technical detail at the sake of the story's pacing. Tom Clancy's writing has never been tighter, cleaner or more interesting than it is here.

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