Having read all of Tom Clancy's books in chronological order, I have always been inclined to ignore his blatantly extreme conservative views for the sake of getting an exciting story in return... these huge novels were always a nice read on the beach, at least.In "Bear & Dragon" though, Mr. Clancy's right-wing outlook on life has gone completely over the top. His repetitive mentioning of those disgusting "tree-huggers", "chinks" and "rats" really turned me off, as did his boring excessive macho talk and two-dimensional view of the female gender. Also, I couldn't help to notice that Mr. Clancy all at once seems to be fascinated by having his main characters use the bathroom... no problem with that basically, but his fixation on nature's call wore kind of thin by the time I reached page 300 or so.On top of that, poor editing (John becomes Jack) and stereotyped characters spoil much of the reading fun that this book could have provided.