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Sinkiang Executive Review"The Sinkiang Executive", Elleston Trevor's eighth installment of Quiller, is an oddly confounding amalgam that surrealy catches our flawed protagonist in a state of moral ambiguity. Then, for a hundred pages in the middle, it misuses the momentum of that premise simply as an excuse to indulge in an outlandish aeronautical fantasy. In what becomes the book's seemingly-abbreviated third portion, Quiller's actual mission may ultimately be worth holding out for if only for the conflict that arises over what the Bureau forces him into. The eventual "plot" of that mission though seems a little too simple, a little too obvious. Likewise, Kirinski's repetitious dialogue at the end is quite silly. Nonetheless, the climax remains a gripping read.
Kirinski does make a unique and compelling villain, who is himself flawed and driven by the same dark motivations that Quiller has. Kirinski becomes a ruthless, formidable enemy whom the hero can ultimately identify with. "The reasons why we go into this trade are varied and we never talk about it because it's always personal...and we don't question even ourselves...because we don't want to come up with an answer we can't live with. I'd put Kirinski down as a psychopath. That is the type I know best, and for good reason." (183) After feeling satisfaction for having murdered a Soviet agent on a train full of witnesses, Quiller appears to be losing control. Likewise, his paltry justification for having done so seems to be an attempt to try and absolve guilt over his own responsibility in the death of a female friend. (In terms of continuity, Trevor states this as being Quiller's sixteenth mission. Apparently not all of them warranted full accounts.) The situation creates a compelling tension that moves to further erode the long-waning trust between Quiller and his Bureau.
Trevor works hard to add credibility in the minute details of Quiller's MiG 28D Finback training and insertion. Unfortunately, the concept of speed training an intelligence agent to be a jet fighter pilot seems to ill fit the Quiller character. There would be hundreds of trained pilots in both the US Air Force and the RAF with more experience for such an aerial reconnaissance mission. The concept seems flawed and all the details add up to little more than tedium. The fact that Ferris shows up by a normal airline flight and later dismisses the aerial photography as a mere "ticket" to the actual mission makes the idea seem all the more pointless. The scenario is often too reminiscent of the Craig Thomas novel "Firefox" (which was published the previous year). Another thing never alluded to is Quiller's ability to speak Russian perfectly and in a dialect that never arouses suspicion from the natives. Bond or Bourne could get away with it, but one of Quiller's advantages has always been its realism. "The Sinkiang Executive" is too often a conflict that pits realistic insight against unbelievable flights of fancy.Sinkiang Executive Overview

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Executive Orders ReviewAt the end of "Debt of Honor" a jet airplane slams into a Joint Session of Congress, pretty much wiping out the American government and suddenly putting Jack Ryan into the Presidency. While Clancy's book was at the top of the Best Seller list someone crashed a small plane into the White House, yet I heard nothing on the news about how life was imitating art. Now, of course, this is headline news and Clancy's books are suddenly being hailed as dire prophecies that are suddenly coming true. In "Executive Action" as Islamic leader assassinates the President of Iraq, forges Iran and Iraq into the United Islamic Republic, attacks the United States with biological weapons, and invades Saudi Arabia to grab the oil fields. Suddenly Tom Clancy has become the prophet of the moment as his fiction became fact with the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Of course, Clancy has not been alone telling such tales, but the focus is certainly on his writings at this pivotal moment in history.
A few have suggested that Clancy was actually providing a blueprint for the terrorists and I seem to remember that there had never been a skyjacking until Robert Serling wrote about it in a novel. But writers just look at the world around them and find creative opportunities, which is certainly no different from what terrorists do in planning operations. However, the reason I feel compelled to reread and review "Executive Orders" is because I think that there are some important things that Clancy has to say about the moment that goes beyond terrorist attacks. First, as Jack Ryan repeatedly points out in the novel, the actions of terrorists for are fundamentalist Muslims do not reflect on the vast majority of the followers of Islam around the world. A war on terrorism is not a war on Islam, no matter what the terrorists claim, and no matter what ignorant and bigoted jerks in this country might want to believe. Second, another Jack Ryan mantra, that human agents are invaluable in trying to gather intelligence on terrorist organizations. Finding terrorists leaders is going to require human agents on the ground and not spy satellites or unmanned drones. Third, secrets are important for the government/military to respond effectively to terrorist attacks. We have the right to know, but the first thing enshrined in the Jefferson's trilogy is "life" and not freedom of the press. Besides, Congress provides oversight in such matters so the intrusive snooping of the press is unwarranted. A corollary of this, as Jack Ryan finds out repeatedly in the novel, is that you cannot trust the press to do the right thing. This particular point was made more strongly in "Debt of Honor," where news networks had to be convinced that reporting certain facts the government was trying to keep secret would result in the deaths of American military personnel (and that this was a bad thing).
"Executive Orders" is a story well told, and what is important about it today is not just what it says about what might happen in the days to come, but what it says about us as Americans. Clancy's books touch on all aspects other the current situation and not just the acts of terrorists. Reading the Jack Ryan novels should do more than engender the fear that there will be a biological attack as in "Executive Orders" or "Rainbow Six" or a nuclear device as in "The Sum Of All Fears" and "The Bear and the Dragon." The bottom line here is that when you read any of Tom Clancy's novels, do not throw out his emphasis on what is good with your fascination with what is bad.Executive Orders Overview

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