Without Remorse by Tom Clancy, Hardcover, plus 1 free hardcover: Debt of Honor Hardcover – January 1, 1993

You or I should say that the books written by Tom Clancy are some of the best reading that I have found. Always keeping me in the book and, in a sense, making you feel as if you are seeing what you are reading.

I’ve read this book 3x in the past 20+ years and enjoyed it even more this last time. Love it!

I started this book in high school but never finished it. I’m glad I decided to finish what I started and can’t wait to read more Tom Clancy novels!

Sometimes difficult to keep track of all the character names. Looking forward to the next tom Clancy book.A good read

Former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran John Kelly is a man on a mission. Having lost his wife and unborn baby, John had begun to look forward to a future with Pam despite her rocky past. But the drug dealers obliterated his dreams and the dirtbags responsible for torturing and killing her can't run far enough or fast enough to escape his retribution.On the same timeline the Pentagon has enlisted his help in a daring mission to rescue twenty Americans from a notorious POW camp in North Vietnam. It's a high-risk operation but John Kelly knows the terrain and surrounding area and he has the skills and experience to pull it off. The mission is planned, the troops are trained and retrained, and support and recovery units are all coordinated. When they get the GO signal, John Kelly, aka Mr. Clark, will infiltrate the POW camp alone, with a near zero margin for error.As Kelly is pursuing his mission to avenge Pam's horrific death he temporarily suspends hunting down the perpetrators so he can concentrate his efforts on the POW rescue. His conscience won't allow him to do otherwise. Make no mistake, John Kelly is an honorable but dangerous man when the situation calls for it. Almost an antihero but not quite. However his need for vengeance presents a moral dilemma. Yes, he can exact retribution, but at what cost?"Without Remorse" is an early Tom Clancy work, originally published in 1993 and is the first of the John Clark novels. The setting is prior to the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, which is evidenced by the liberal use of cigarettes and absence of technology as we know it today. But the intricate and multi-layered plot with a mind-boggling cast of characters is pure Clancy. And Kelly/Clark is a much more nuanced character than I expected. Even so, with our protagonist at the heart of the action I had no trouble keeping track of who, what, where and when. However, at 700 pages, the pacing fell off from time to time and got a little draggy. Clancy was a leader in spy fiction and his contributions are timeless. Still and all, a fine spy yarn for sure. Four stars.

I read this book in 1994 and I loved it then. I just recently purchased the Kindle version of the book and the Audible version of the book. I listened to the book as I followed the text of the Kindle version.The book is one of my favorites that was written by Tom Clancy. It develops the background and life of a major character in several of Tom’s books. John Kelly who later becomes John Clark working for the CIA. John is a Navy Seal and a master warrior with multiple skills. He life is crushed as his wife and unborn child are killed in a tragic car accident.Later in life he meets a young woman, Pam, and he tries to help her. He finds out that she has escaped from a major drug dealer who beat her and mistreated her while keeping her high on drugs. John’s new friends help to cure her of her drug habit and John is falling in love. Pam asks John to help her other female friends to escape from the drug dealer as not only does he mistreat them but he kills them if they try to escape.John and Pam are attacked and John is nearly killed and Pam is kidnaped, tortured, raped and murdered. As John recovers he realizes that he made a vow to help Pam’s friends. Meanwhile he is also asked by multiple Admirals to do a secret mission to rescue captured American officers. He has to train a team of Marines for the mission and also help Pam’s friends on his own time.What begins is a winding tale of murder and training for an impossible mission and traitors giving secrets to Russian agents….I love this story and I recommend it to you. It is a long book but it is well written and it is a good storyline.

Buena historiaDatos sobre tácticas navales y militares muy profesionales y verificables. Aunque lo predecible del desenlace afecta un poco la trama.

Excelente livro, aliás como todos os escritos por este autor - Tom Clancy; excelente enredo, muito suspense conjugado com muita ação e excelente contextualização da história e seu ambiente ! Para quem gosta de livros de espionagem, com muito suspense e ação, vale a pena o entretenimento !

クランシーの作品では一番好きです。出た当初に日本語で読み、洋書を購入しようとずっと思っていましたが、機会がなく、電子版があるとしり早速購入しました。じっくりと読んでいます。

Muito bom, assim como todos os livros que já li de Tom Clancy.Momentos de tensão, reviravoltas e as histórias paralelas que se cruzam em acontecimentos emocionantes.

Great book and a great addition to pre Jack Ryan stories