did anyone else feel like they had just finished half of a book? about thirty pages from the end I started thinking "there's no way we're going to wrap this up" lol sort of like when there's 5 minutes left in your detective tv show and you start to see the "to be continued" coming...

and secondly, did anyone else find it slightly corny that the new characters are Jack Ryan's son and nephews? sort of scrappy doo-ish...

And yes, I do think this is only half of a book. It seems pretty clear from the ending that he plans on having the next book pick up right after this one. It'll be interesting to see what's on the laptop.

However, I had some problems with this book. First of all, twins who, while not identical, look a lot alike? Doesn't this seem like the kind of anomalie that people would remember? I thought these guys were trying to keep a low profile.

I also thought that they missed the obvious reason as to the big difference between being a soldier and what they were doing...Dom was on a battlefield. The other soldiers were trained to fight on the same field, and so there's a mutual understanding that at anytime they could be attacked when on the battlefield.

In fact, that's part of what people dislike about terrorism is that there's no defined battlefield, so people never know where they are safe.

I was also disappointed with the lack of discussion about what was wrong with having a private org. basically act like a mercenary. The lack of responsibility being chief among them. Private ventures are only responsible for themselves, which is fine as long as they aren't in a position to infringe on the rights of others indiscriminately. Well, I'd say killing people they "know" are bad guys is pretty much an infringement on others' rights, and so the lack of responsibility to any other entity than themselves is just reckless and wrong. Still, I'll reserve final judgement for the part 2 that has to follow this.

And it seems like Jack Jr's big character trait is swearing. And all the different names for the twins was not only confusing, but irritating. Aldo, Enzo, Brian, Dominic, bro, one's in the Marines, the other in the FBI...too much to keep track of. Blah.

was the fact that all three are related to each other. I really didn't think it was necessary to have that. But oh well.

How can a former president's son walk around without being noticed? I mean, if Chelsea Clinton were to walk around Rome, you'd think she'd draw a crowd - or at least some stares - which seems sort of the opposite you'd want in that line of work. Or is it just me??

Well, Pres. Ryan was a pretty private guy who really didn't like the press, so it's possible he did what he could to keep his kids out of the public eye.