Red Rabbit Book

In college, Clancy lowered my GPA by almost a full point one year. It was the mid-90's, and I started reading him and got so addicted I would skip class, call out sick from work, order pizza, and read all day. I immediately snapped up new releases, like Debt of Honor and Rainbow Six and loved them. I even trudged through some of his non-fiction stuff. I read Red Storm Rising and Without Remorse twice.

But somewhere around Bear and Dragon, Clancy turned blah. Red Rabbit is just lame. I literally threw it in the garbage partway through. I swear he got a ghost writer, and took the lowest bidder at that. I also think over the years Clancy must have both a.) developed a porn addiction, and b.) completely failed in his personal relationships with women, because for as well-researched and realistic his military action stuff is, his depictions of all love interests are horribly juvenile, and over the years they've gotten worse. They all go something like: "I saw her...stared at her anatomy and got aroused...then 5 minutes later we groped each other...now we're in a relationship, and that's how it all developed." Really Clancy? Obviously the man cannot relate to any real, positive-feeling, opposite-sex relationships. His character development got worse, his plots, predictable. Clancy...it was good while it lasted, man.