The Good, the Bad and Ugly- again

You might have read my previous post The Good, Bad and the Ugly. This time I have changed the order slightly. Just for a change. Its bad, Good and the Ugly...
 
The Bad
For Special Services by John Gardener:

Its 1981, the renowned British secret agent James Bond, passing middle age and his famous "license to kill" taken back, is facing the largest dilemma of his career as a spy- "whether to sleep with his old American friend's daughter"... Sounding comic?... Unfortunately this novel is, although John Gardener who takes forward the Bond legacy after Ian Fleming does not intend it to be so.... This installation of Bond is a bore... cliched...probably Gardner felt it is more appropriate for a movie version... saved only by a wonderfully written car race sequence.

Spectre, a criminal organisation Bond had finished off years before has re-emerged... and so has its leader Blofeld, whom Bond had supposedly killed years back. Either it is Blofeld risen from ashes or it is some one who carries on his work and name..... his sibling, son or.... (daughter?)
Come on ... prick, you just gave away the suspense...
(Who cares? No one is going to read this crap any way.. after all you have written about it... )
And Bond is sure this time Spectre is upto some thing nasty... ... (World Domination?)
Ok I dont think there is no suspense in this case... 
This time their hub is Texas...

So along with the daughter of his best friend Bond is deputed to USA, for Special Services, where a wealthy ice cream manufacturer Bismaquer  is upto something naughty in a huge ranch...the story progresses with many hurdles Bond and his assistant has to cross on their way... like
Nena... Bismaquer's wife, a single breasted French lady who is hell bend on helping Bond,  
Luxor, a corpse like assistant who tries to kill Bond in a wonderfully  narrated Race sequence...
Giant cannibal ants... and Huge pythons... and a drug which makes the consumed a slave of authority..


The plot is like a giant sieve with gaping holes... 
Gadgetry is weak.. the only thing he uses is... a rope and a hook while an elevator crash...
The worst part is were Bismaquer helps Bond escape from Spectre's clutches, because he turns to be a ... hm.... I know its weird... a gay...(HAHAHAHA)

Seriously... this book is a big joke.. read at your own risk....

 The Good

Shall We Tell The President by Jeffrey Archer 

Shall we tell president is a wonderful novel on terrorism written by Jeffrey Archer. It is highly entertaining and thrilling... The reviews compare him to alexander Dumas... and I feel it is rightfully told... he is a wonderful story teller.

First female president of USA has sworn in and her priority is Gun Control Bill, and within two years she is almost close to her aim much to the distress of big firms manufacturing guns and explosives for internal market... FBI recieves a threat for her life 7 days before the bill is put for vote... and within an hour among five people who are aware of threat, four are murdered... the survivor Mark Andrews is pitted in a race against time and a bunch of assassins, probably helped by a senator to save the Presidency... 

This is a must read novel... a real page turner with some serious suspense woven through

The Ugly

Patriot Games By Tom Clancy

Jack Ryan is an American History teacher on a visit to UK, where he rescues the royal family from a murder attempt by Irish terrorist... Although he becomes a hero over night, he makes himself and his family vulnerable to the most cruel and brutal  terrorist organisation in world... 

The plot is good and suspense is great but the climax was a bit of a let down... too far fetched, but it is readable stuff... pick it for a lazy afternoon reading....