Tom Clancy's Power Plays: Cutting Edge [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Tom Clancy (Author)

Book Description

Series: Tom Clancy's Power Plays | Publication Date: November 1, 2002

WIRED.

Africa becomes the battleground of twenty-first-century war. As fiber-optic cable is laid down around the continent, two entities fight to control it. One is UpLink Communications, headed by Roger Gordian. The Pan-African fiber-optic ring is his most ambitious?and expensive?endeavor to date.

His nemesis, Harlan Devane, is penetrating the network. Devane trades in black-market commodities with terrorists and rogue states, and the cable offers him unlimited access to a most valuable product: information. To ensure his success, Devane makes his move halfway around the world. He hits Gordian where it hurts?and kidnaps his daughter.

Now, Gordian must trust his UpLink team as never before, as they fight on land and sea to save his daughter and turn the tables against Devane?once and for all.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Abridged edition (November 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743505824
• ISBN-13: 978-0743505826
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,041,349 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #17 in Books > Books on Cassette > Authors, A-Z > ( C ) > Clancy, Tom

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A bad, bad book, November 22, 2002

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Chris B (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cutting Edge (Tom Clancy's Power Plays, Book 6) (Paperback)

This book wasn't even written by Tom Clancy (a fact made clear on the cover in much smaller print than the rest).
The book is remarkable in that so little happens in the first 400 pages of the book that you think that there will have to be a sequel to sort out the problems that have been set up. In the event nothing is ever really sorted out and threads are left dangling.

I know that many people don't associate TC with fine literature, but his books have a rhythm and pace that few others match. This book has nothing of the sort.

Mr Clancy, I am surprised that you allow such a book to be written by someone else and have your name on the cover.
You have lost a reader.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I hope Mr. Clancy was a victim of Identity theft....., January 26, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Cutting Edge (Tom Clancy's Power Plays, Book 6) (Paperback)

I hope that Mr. Clancy was the victim of identity theft and he did not willingly sell his name to this book.

I have to give it a one star because there is nothing lower.

I actually gave up on this book after 150 pages because it was so horrible. These 150 pages could have been more effectively written on 30 pages. After reading 1/3 of the book there was no continuity, no direction and no plot that I could find.

This is an absolute sell out of an authors name. If you closely read the cover you will see that Tom Clancy has little or nothing to do with this book. He has obviously just sold out his audience for a few dollars. I wonder if he could even stand to read this book.

THIS IS A BAD BOOK..............

I have just finished reading the other reviews and it seems odd that 8 people rated this book as the lowest possible rating and 1 rated it as a 4 and 2 as a 5 star. I was puzzled about the 4 and 5's until I realized that the publisher, the author and the author's mother probably wrote the reviews and even one of those could only give it a 4. I don't think Tom Clancy himself could read this book and give it a good review.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible book!!, July 26, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Cutting Edge (Tom Clancy's Power Plays, Book 6) (Paperback)

I'm not sure why some of the reviews for this book have 4 stars, but I thought this was the most incoherent book I read. It was like inflicting torture on yourself to continue reading this book. Stay away from it!

And to you John Robertill, in defense of Adam from WI, it's his opinion, let it go. 95% of your review was spent raving about how he made typos instead of giving your thoughts on the book. Obviously you've been deeply wounded by his comments and you have some personal link to the authoring of this ghastly creation called a book!