European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reviews debt of Honor by Tom Clancy Putnam. Tom Clancy is America s most wish fulfilling policy maker. In his eighth spectacular and scary novel debt of Honor he plunges America into a foreign policy that is at once unthinkable and thrilling a Campaign that the present state and defense departments can Only wish they had the Talent to fight. Real War with Japan. Real japanese sneak attack against America s Pacific Fleet real paralysing nuclear gamesmanship with rebuilt soviet missiles real state terrorism real american territory taken by for eign troops real dead americans in the thousands and All this in the immediate future. The moment when the president learns of the War is the chilling instant of the Book. You look like hell president Durling remarks to Clancy s franchise player super hero Jack Ryan. They re in air Force one heading Home from new ally Russia Alert to several spontaneous third world crises that might be linked. What s the problem the president asks. Ryan now National Security adviser searches for the right emphasis on the mind boggling news flashes Stock Market crashing two carriers out of action two nuclear subs missing terrorism in the Indi an Ocean chauvinist elections in Japan. Or. President based on information received Over the last few hours i believe that the United states of America is at War with  in one tight scene Clancy has done the work of All the King s horses and men he has put before you As if you were the president the possibility of a Battle that is implicit in every economic headline this sum Mer about the . Trade Gap with Japan the yen is. The Dollar and the fragility of the . Government Bond Market and the nikkei Stock Market. War with Japan of course so that s what s going on. For More than a decade Clancy has projected american Power and ideals around the Globe. If our foes want to know what we would do if attacked or tricked they Only need to look at Clancy to learn that they Don t want to fool with Uncle Sam. Clan by s two nonfiction works submarine and armoured Cav Are one Boot stride into the Twilight zone of what the Pentagon charmingly Calls  debt of Honor raises the stakes for Clancy. Here he has us at War not with the infamous evil Empire of the cold War not with the agreed upon enemies of terrorists and druggies but with the Folk who own two Hollywood studios and Rockefeller Center the  lit crowd has Long smirked at Clancy and it will trip Over its metaphors bad mouthing this yarn As racism and paranoia and zounds melodrama. Worth considering however is that Clancy is embarked on a patriotic journey into the Post cold War future where nightmares such As Haiti and Bosnia and North Korea await like wounded Lions. What s going to happen will look much closer to Clancy s gunfight vision than to the Stone Morrison Smiley exp set of infinite feelings or meanings. Next time someone takes a cheap shot at your dogeared Clancy set just bark Back bombs away John Batchelor los Angeles times Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke hype Rion keep a rag nearby you la break out in a sweat More than once in Dixie City Jam. Burke s latest another Dave Robicheaux thriller is a genuinely exciting work that succeeds on several Levels. Foremost is that he knows How to write every paragraph peels something away and keeps you nervously wondering what will happen next. And the payoff is there for Burke knows How to Pace a Story. It s not so much nonstop action As a continuous and delicious dread judiciously punctuated by moments of abject horror. Jon Sparks Memphis commercial Appeal october 1�64 by David Halberstam Villard books Why has Halberstam picked october 1964 As the title for his latest baseball Book his previous one having been the Best Selling summer of 49 of course his new Book is not about just october to cover the entire 1%4 season along with its Back ground. Bestsellers Putnam Tom Clancy is on target with debt of Honor. New York Yankee fans will remember the year As the end of an Era with the team making its last appearance in the world series until a dozen years later. But Halberstam sees even More in that season. He views it not Only As the end of the Yankee Era but also As the end of a style of baseball that the Ameri can league and the Yankees played by which he Means Power baseball built around Home runs and the big inning and featuring mainly White players. What was pushing this kind of baseball aside in Halberstam s View was a game based on Speed on the base paths a style that was characteristic of the old negro leagues from which the major leagues were increasingly drawing their Talent. By 1964, the National league in particular was More and More exemplifying this style of play. The team that beat out the Phillies that year the St. Louis cardinals had drawn deeply from the Black Talent Pool and had been judged by Marvin Miller the labor negotiator to be the Best integrated of the teams he had visited that Spring. The cardinals were the team that beat the Yankees that october. Christopher Lehmann Haupt not the Kennedy women by Laurence learner Villard books. Learner notes that Joseph Kennedy or. Did t mind if his favorite daughter in Law Jackie were to have an affair with Oleg Cassini. He simply instructed Cassini to be discreet saying the worst thing to my mind would be to have the perception and not the reality Cassini and Jacqueline Kennedy apparently preferred to have neither. Joan Kennedy laments that she became the family s Token alcoholic even though some of her Sisters in Law had drinking problems As Well. R Laura Lippman Baltimore Sun fear of fifty by Erica Jon Harper Collins. _ inside this Well padded Book is one slim trim Magazine article screaming to get out. Well of maybe two articles. The famously naughty Jong she of the picaresque novel the Many marriages and the zip less you know what celebrates turning 50 with this Memoir. Jong has written six novels the Best known being the Best Selling fear of flying that of so 7 s paean to spontaneous sexual combustion. Published in 1973, the Book has sold More than 12 million copies in 27 languages. She s also an accomplished poet and essayist. Fear of fifty is an amalgam of Jong s thoughts on feminism aging sex motherhood jewishness marriage and the tigers of writing for a living. These Are interspersed with her account of grow ing up in a creative neurotic fascinating new York City firmly a foie going on to a series of creative neurotic relationships of her own. 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