If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be? I thought he was a very good narrator, I laughed my head off the first time he tried an english accent, very well done!
Have you listened to any of Michael Prichard’s other performances? How does this one compare? Observing from different perspectives how perceived slights on one side can be the gravest insult, where as the other side is completely unaware they have done anything wrong, and the fates of nations rests of these mis-interpretations due to cultural differences. What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting? Yes, because it's a brilliantly detailed and twisting scenario that builds from small acts and unlinked conversations and espionage into huge mobilisations of national armies and tank battles and missiles and jet figher battles! A rip-roaring military adventure! Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? The ending had my heart pounding in my chest! I'll have to take their word for it but if that's the case then collapse the first bit into a short into and go straight for the last few chapters! Other reviews say that the last few chapters are great. If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Bear and the Dragon? He should get a job making destination recordings for a train company. Would you be willing to try another one of Michael Prichard’s performances? Would you ever listen to anything by Tom Clancy again? For example, two characters speaking about president Mao's penchant for raping young girls, and one of them guffaws "Well at least it wasn't a boy". Even if you are characterising an unpleasant person, there are some places you just don't go. At first I thought it was just the dreadful narrator that made this book so disappointing, but its racism and sexism got to me too, though I can't speak for more than the first 8 hours when I gave up on it. I'm quickly becoming a Tom Clancy fan and have been enjoying his stories. This is the third Jack Ryan thriller, following Without Remorse and Rainbow Six.What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you? The Bear and the Dragon is Tom Clancy at his best - and there is none better. If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same. Tired of what they view as the presumption of the West, eager to fulfill their destiny, they are taking matters into their own hands. For even while Russian investigators pursue the case, and some of his most trusted eyes and ears, including antiterrorism specialist John Clark, head to Moscow, forces in China are moving forward with a plan of truly audacious proportions. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here? Ryan is right to wonder. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the potential assassins. Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn 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. A truly brilliant thriller by Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon is a Jack Ryan novel.
INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN.