"Without Remorse." By Tom Clancy. Putnam. $24.95. In his seventhtechno-thriller, the master military buff's consummate research shines through, as usual. But "Without Remorse" is a very different Clancy book, filled with sadism, sexual abuse and right-wing vigilantism.
Back is John Terrence Kelly, the mysterious CIA field officer code-named Mr. Clark, who nailed nuclear terrorists in "The Sum of All Fears," bombed Colombian drug dealers in "Clear and Present Danger," and rescued a KGB chief's family in "The Cardinal of the Kremlin." Kelly gets fully fleshed out here -- or, at least, fleshed out for Clancy -- emerging from the shadows as the uniquely qualified killer known as "Snake," whose footsteps "no one ever heard."
It is 1970 and the former UDT expert is out of the military, living on an island he rents from the government and grieving over the recent accidental death of his pregnant wife. He befriends a young woman trying to flee her life as a prostitute kept dependent on drugs and forced to work as a "mule" for a gang of smugglers bringing heroin into the United States in the bodies of GIs killed in Southeast Asia.
When the woman's past reclaims her in a particularly gruesome way, Kelly, unhinged by grief, goes bonkers in Baltimore, posing as a street bum and dispatching pushers and pimps with skills …
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