The Bear and The Dragon by Tom Clancy

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Tom Clancy
• Title: The Bear and The Dragon (A Jack Ryan Novel)
• Publisher: ‎ G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 1028 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 039914563X
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0399145636
• Reading Age: ‎ 18 years and up
• Lexile measure: ‎ 1060L
• Item Weight: ‎ 3.13 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.5 x 2.06 x 9.34 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Excellent / Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent

Synopsis:

Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.

In The Bear and the Dragon, the future is very near at hand indeed.

Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; there's 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 SVR–the former KGB–with a rocket-propelled grenade. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level 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 fail…the consequences will be unspeakable.

Blending the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, razor-sharp suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters, this is Clancy at his best–and there is none better.

About the Author:

A little more than thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Years before, he had been an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel.

His first effort, The Hunt for Red October—the first of the phenomenally successful Jack Ryan novels—sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it “the perfect yarn.”

From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He passed away in October 2013.