Has anyone read The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy recently?

[DBcook]

Not long ago I read ?Medal of Honor? by Tom Clancy and remembered thinking that it would very possible for something like that to happen never realizing that some day it may. Then I started thinking about some of his earlier works. The one that stuck in my mind was ?The Sum of All Fears?.

In this book a terrorist group detonates a nuclear device at the Super Bowl. While I think the idea of a terrorist detonating a nuclear weapon at the Super Bowl is quite far fetched (I hope) the underlying plot is very similar the goings on in the world today.

I have read all of ?Clancy?s? works, and am surprised by the events in those books, and how the relate to the events I see unfolding on my television set every night.

I welcome any thought any of you may have on this supject.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

In Tom Clancy's "Debt Of Honor," the book ended with a kamikaze attack by a JAL 747 crashing into the Capital building and wiping out most of Congress. In discussing the book with a friend, he said it seemed too much like something HollyWood would make up, rather than something that would actually happen. Sadly, he was proven wrong on September 11, 2001.

 

[Kanalua]

I guess that's why the Pentagon is going to Hollywood sources to conjure up possibles for future terrorist attacks.

 

[iamwiz82]

<< Not long ago I read ?Medal of Honor? by Tom Clancy and remembered thinking that it would very possible for something like that to happen never realizing that some day it may. Then I started thinking about some of his earlier works. The one that stuck in my mind was ?The Sum of All Fears?.

In this book a terrorist group detonates a nuclear device at the Super Bowl. While I think the idea of a terrorist detonating a nuclear weapon at the Super Bowl is quite far fetched (I hope) the underlying plot is very similar the goings on in the world today.

I have read all of ?Clancy?s? works, and am surprised by the events in those books, and how the relate to the events I see unfolding on my television set every night.

I welcome any thought any of you may have on this supject. >>



I just began reading Sum of All Fears once again. Excellent book. I have read all of the Jack Ryan series, but i dont care much for the ones without him. They just seem to be missing his personality which made the book.