Clear And Present Danger The novel starts off at a slow pace and not much happens in the first hundred pages. Clancy can be forgiven because the rest of the book makes up for its few shortcomings. The scene that sets the story for the novel is the horrid scene of the president's family friend tortured and then murdered by a drug lord's thugs. The extreme method of playback by the drug lord that in …showed first 75 words of 766 total…

…showed last 75 words of 766 total…but helpful explanation of the military support systems from ground troops to aerial support. The realism of drug wars, hard behind the scene politics and detailed explanation of military high tech hardware makes this Clany's best book. If you enjoy Clear and Present Danger then you might be interested to reading some of Clancy’s other novels which include; The hunt of the Red October, Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games and many other great reads.