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…

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