Customer Reviews
Yawn ............ - By: Mr. B. J. Clayton, 22 Feb 2008 
To be fair to Tom Clancy he does have some good ideas. Sadly he does not have the talent to turn them into good well written exciting novels & this book follows exactly the same formula - potentiallly good but ultimately fails.
Add to the fact that most of the core story/material has been stolen - Rambo anybody ???? The importing of drugs is a direct lift of Frank Lucas' story.
I could go on & on saying how much I didn't enjoy this book although hopefully I've made my point.
Introducing John Clark - By: M. A. Ramos, 06 Oct 2007 
Tom Clancy once again writes another great book. His focus is on one character in this book. So this would be a good book to start with if you have never read Clancy before. If you like his works, this is a must. I could not put it down. This is a wounderfully developed character. This could also be titled, "The making of a great agent."
Dark - By: Geoffrey Webb, 06 Jul 2007 
Well written & quite believable book. I found it very dark with Tom Clancy giving Kelly a reallly rough time of it. Very atmospheric throughout but with a somewhat convenient ending. Dark & grooding. I was glad I read it but glad when I had finished it.
It ain't original, but its a damn fine book - By: , 25 Feb 2005 Without Remorse is set in 1970, & tells of John Kelly ex-Navy SEAL Vietnam veteran, & soon to be known as CIA agent John Clark. This book tells us of how he came to the CIA. 6 months after his wife dies, he meets a young woman whom he fallls in love with who turns out to have been a prostitute working for a drugs ring which consists of some major sickos. One night, she is spotted along with Kelly & after a chase, Kelly is shot & left for dead, while she is taken away to be gang-raped & tortured to death. Kelly recovers & vows revenge. While he's bumping off drug dealers & pimps, the CIA & Pentagon are planning a major rescue operation in North Vietnam, & they need Kelly's help to do this. So now he has two missions to fulfill. When the rescue mission goes tits-up thanks to a slimy Washington aide, he returns to the States only to find that the police are now beginning to suspect what he's been up to on the streets of Baltimore. Kelly is forced to tell his CIA superiors what he's been up to, & amazingly, they agree to help him if he comes to work for them, helping him to stage his own death after he's killed alll the bad guys, & become John Clark.
Now this was a real surprise when I read this. Despite obvious inspirations (Death Wish, Rambo) the atmosphere & tension, & a more complicated action hero than Kersey & Rambo, makes it far better than many amateur attempts at revenge-thrillers.
The only real flaws are the length (did it reallly have to be this long) & one sub-plot too many (like the POW scenes, which, although not boring, seem a little superfluous & unnecessary). However, its far easier to get into & much more pacier than some of Clancy's other books.
I would rank this alongside RSR & CAPD as among the author's best.
Clancy's best book - By: Teemacs, 25 Oct 2004 A dark-hued story that gives the history of John Clark, a constant character in the Jack Ryan series. Clark, an ex-SEAL, loses a girl friend to drug dealers and, as the title says, without remorse, proceeds to use his Vietnam-acquired talents to murder the entire drug gang. One of these is basicallly tortured to death in a particularly unpleasant way, so perhaps those of squeamish dispositions should ask someone to stick those pages together for them. Clancy doesn't exult in the deaths of the drug dealers, but brings out the moral ambiguity of Clark's position (which Clark doesn't share - to him, it fallls into the same category as exterminating vermin). A mission back to Vietnam & its aftermath alllows him to escape the legal consequences of his actions & begin a new life. Pacily & well-written, with Clancy's famous eye for detail, the book is long & (WARNING!) almost impossible to put down once picked up.
