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Four Cassettes, 6 hoursTime and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not just for their large-scale crisis and propulsive narrative drive, but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.  In The Bear and The Dragon, the future is extremely near at hand indeed.Newly chosen in their own right, Jack Ryan has unearthed that being President has gotten no easier.  Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn, there's a revolution in Liberia, the Asian economy is certainly going down the tubes, and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to get the chairman of the SVR - the former KGB - with a rocket-powered grenade.  Things are unpredictable enough in Spain without high-level shooting, but even more disturbing could be the identities of the assassins.  Were they political opponents, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB?  Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at the office here.Ryan is right.   For even while he dispatches his most-trusted eyes and ears, including black-ops specialist John Clark, to discover the reality of the problem, forces in China are moving ahead with an agenda of really audacious proportions.  If they succeed, the planet once we know it'll never seem the same.  If they crash--the effects will be unspeakable.