Ah, the Tom Clancy universe, where the book titles are meaningless, the righteous are Republicans, women exist sometimes, and everyone is above the law...
Threat Vector (a book review)
Finally, a Tom Clancy novel that feels like a Tom Clancy novel, for better and for worse. Let’s start with the good stuff: Plot! – In Threat Vector, the author(s) imagine a world where China has moved aggressively into the South China Sea in an effort to both control the flow of sea traffic and... Continue Reading →
Locked On (a book review)
I've been a Clancy fanboy since I read Patriot Games back in high school. The "real-world" adventures of Jack Ryan seemed to stand above more generic thriller fare. I eventually stopped reading though, as the author turned out massive tomes that felt self-indulgent (not to take a shot at Tom Clancy since he has passed). The... Continue Reading →
Jack Reacher and the Case of the Plug-and-Play Plot
In the fall of 2014, five deep-cover, serial-thriller agents met at a black site located somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Their mission was top secret. The only record of the meeting was assembled by the apparent target of their operation: author Stuart Woods. After discovering his main character, Stone Barrington, had gone missing for two... Continue Reading →
TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL: BLACKLIST: AFTERMATH (a book review)
The staff here at MojoFiction picked this book up on a whim and we don’t remember why. Okay, we do, but we won’t bore you with the story about how we bought a different book but left it at home so we needed something else for the train so we bought this from the little shop... Continue Reading →