Debt of Honor

A Jack Ryan Novel

By: Tom Clancy

Narrated by: John MacDonald

Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

Clancy plunges hero Jack Ryan into nonstop high adventure, as two seemingly unrelated occurrences being a chain of events that will stun the world.

Take another thrill ride with Jack Ryan.

©1994 Tom Clancy (P)2010 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

"Clancy's latest novel traces the financial, political, military, and personal machinations that drive America into the next major global war.... a shocker climax so plausible you'll wonder why it hasn't yet happened. (Entertainment Weekly)

“Breathtaking.” (Los Angeles Times)

“A brilliant describer of events.” (The Washington Post)

The Ryan universe gets a little crazy

If Sum of all Fears took the Ryanverse in a bigger crazier direction than the first books in the series then this book pushed it out past even that.
That's not to say it isn't a good book. It is. The reader here was not very good. His horrendous voices for some characters were brutal but it wasn't a lot of the time.
You look back now and wonder if this had any influence in the planes into the two towers.
Overall Jack takes his place as NSA for the President and helps avert a financial crisis and then planning a nice quiet takedown of Japan.
At this point in his career Clancy started piling on the word count in his books. It seems some of the explanations could be bypassed but he does keep the story here moving.

you really have to focus

the author really jumps around and it's a lot of separate but complicated narratives going, loved it.

Executive Orders and Debt of Honor

Any additional comments?

It has been a long time since I’ve been engrossed in a Tom Clancy novel, and it is sad that I will no longer be so privileged. My first exposure, as I believe would common to many readers, was The Hunt for Red October. These few words address Executive Orders and Debt of Honor. Read by Michael Prichard and John MacDonald, respectively, these books total approximately 87 hours of listening. I would suggest reading Debt of Honor first, as it is a tale that ends with information critical to the beginning of Executive Orders.

Tom Clancy’s generation, the baby-boomers, was one of the Cold War, and as a youngster, listening to tales of World War II, and as time marched forward, the Gulf War, and the overall Muslim-country-based angst. Well, guess what … these books reflect exactly that … Japan is the bad guy in Debt of Honor – and the Muslim terrorist is foundation of Executive Orders. The U.S. Capitol is destroyed, threats against the president and is family lace the pages. Ebola is unleashed, there are good-guy politicians, bad-guy politicians, good ‘o boys, sex scandals, and more. Typical of Clancy, these books are very detailed in the war strategies and technology of the era. No cell phones, but a world-wide-web is born.

Clancy, through his character Jack Ryan, is a flag-waving patriot … a red, white, and blue type A guy. The views are conservative. May have those readers with a liberal bent rolling their eyes a bit.

My preference in audiobook narration is pretty simple. If I am enjoying the listen and not hitting re-wind a great deal, the narrator is doing a good job. No complaints.

There are thousands of reviews on Clancy books, ergo not much for me to add. There is a baby-boomer writer flavor. The authors of this generation were encouraged to pen 800 page novels. Think John Jakes, Robert Ludlum, James Clavell, Allen Drury … these long, wordy, books are fun. The plots and sub-plots are rich and detailed … sometimes wavering from the story, but always intriguing and usually educational and historically accurate. Books are not written like this any more. Too bad.

Narrator killed this book for me....

What did you love best about Debt of Honor?

Narrator killed this book for me....strange tone, strange reading style. Story is great, I did get through it, just had to rewind A LOT!!!

love tom Clancy books

relevant and informative but still entertaining and gripping. Mr. MacDonald reads it well. worth the purchase!

One of my favorite books.

I have read this many times and listened to it on Audible multiple times. I know it very well. I guess I find comfort in the person the character Jack Ryan is.

one of the best Tom Clancy books

First off, I took the previous advice and changed the listening speed to 1.25. That made the reading sound normal, actually, I think John did a great job. This is a powerful book, you won't regret putting in the time to listen. I also recommend listening to the books by the listed order (chronological) starting with Without Remorse. That's a lot of listening, and buying of books, but it introduces you to all the characters and you get the proper timeline of what's going on. Makes the story even more enjoyable because you know who everyone is and their background, and Clancy just pops them in here and there. I debated a bunch before buying this one just because of the previous review's but I'm glad I did, and I think you will too.

Read too fast

Narrator read so fast it was like gibberish, must be being paid by the word.

Another Clancy classic

Overall great story. Another must read by Tom Clancy. My only gripe is the narrator. Please stick with Mr. Prichard for all Clancy novels.

Great story but the rest was dreadfully slow!!

Great story but the rest was dreadfully slow. I had to put it at 1.25 speed or I wouldn't have bring able to lesson to him drone on. Bueller, Beuller? My GOD I hope he doesn't read anymore books I get.