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Summary: Disappointed
Review: While I think there was plenty of plot material here, I got the feeling that too much of the dialogue was nothing more than filler. Does Tom Clancy talk like the characters in his book. Aldo and Enzo sound like throwbacks from some 80's television series. Additionally, young Ryan comes across as a shallow 20s something with more interest in capitalizing on his father's name rather than creating a name for himself. This book was a waste of time.
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Summary: Better than the past couple but still not up to snuff
Review: It starts with a good begining, moves in to a dull middle and then an unsatisfiying predictable ending. I really have a problem with his dialog. Every character talks like a 50 year former member of the military.
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Summary: Better than these reviews
Review: While I agree that this isn't Clancy's best or longest novel, I think it is a good read. Ryan Sr character was at the end of the road if you ask me and yet this carries on the story. The ending left me wantig for the next book. I did find the idea of a presiden't son being able to work in black ops a little far fetched, it leaves room to develop his character. I only hope in the next installment he finds room for Clark or Dominguez.
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Summary: Each one worse than the one before
Review: I'm stunned. I've been a Clancy fan from the beginning, and while each book has been less entrancing than the one before, this hits bottom. No drama. Superficial characters. No suspense. No plot to speak of.This should never have been published. It's clear its only purpose was to set the stage for future books using Jack Ryan's son and cousins as the new main characters. We know that the "Clancy machine" has been churning out materials to capitalize on the name, the Net-force series, for example. But we could count of his "real" books to be good reads. No more. I'd like the time back that I spent on this book. It's only redeeming trait? It has to be one of the worst "thrillers" ever written and published. Shame on you, Tom.
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Summary: Fan Exploitation
Review: I've read most of Clancy's work and this book seems to dwell on all of the things Clancy does poorly, such as character development. I cringed through most of the book as I plodded through tortured dialog, hoping to get to action sequences that only came at the end.
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Summary: Tom Clancy in danger of becoming another Alistair McLean
Review: Last week I sat down to read The Teeth of the Tiger hoping Tom Clancy had recaptured the spark that was sadly absent in Red Rabbit. While better, it still failed to come close to earlier efforts. The back-to-back Debt of Honor and Executive Orders were the best tandem I had ever read. Everything since (with the exception of The Bear and The Dragon) has been unsatisfying. In this latest attempt, the author employs some coincidences that not only strain credulity, they demolish it. Two brothers being trained to fight terrorists happen to be in the same location at the same time that their adversaries choose to attack. If that weren't enough, the junior analyst tracking their first designated target is their cousin! The dialogue between the brothers is so out-of-date it's puzzling. I'm reminded of Alistair McLean who wrote some astonishingly good works early in his career and then began turning out disjointed confusing and rambling works. The strength of his name kept placing his books high on the best seller lists but it was apparent that he had lost whatever magic he possessed early on. Please Mr. Clancy, reread your early effort Without Remorse and give us something similar that we can't put down instead of something that puts us to sleep.
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Summary: Unfettered Teeth
Review: Action! Suspense! Real People! Horrifying, believable situations with potential for destroying the world! These are the things that Clancy became known for with his early books in the Jack Ryan series, from The Hunt for Red October to Executive Orders. Unfortunately, since then, new books in the series have lost one or more of those fine elements, leaving me wondering if the same man wrote the current work and those earlier ones. This one starts well, introducing some much needed new characters, Jack Ryan's twin nephews Dominic and Brian Caruso, a Marine and an FBI agent, and his son Jack Jr. The situation is post 9/11, Jack Sr. is now the 'retired' President, and terrorism is the natural and quite believable focus of this work. Clancy's initial description of the collusion between a South American drug cartel and Islamic terrorists is precise and fits well with the real world. The mindset of the terrorists who are chosen to actually carry out the 'message' that no place in America is safe from them is well portrayed. By this point I was all set for another great thriller, wondering if Jack Jr. and his cousins can figure out the threat and deploy counter-measures in time - but it didn't happen. Instead we are treated to a near impossible coincidence of the nephews just happening to be at the right place at the right time, an intelligence analysis by Jack Jr. that drives from one marginal ID of a player in the terrorist plot all the way to the second-level king-pin - again with too much coincidence to be believable, and a 'solution' where everything goes exactly as planned, with no suspense at all. Jack Jr. and the twins are reasonably portrayed, though not in the depth we have come to expect of Clancy, and they all do more soul-searching about the morality of killing obvious threats to society than I thought was healthy. It is also perhaps too much of a stretch that these three relatives would all come together as part of this counter-terrorist group, and that there is no media observance of Jack Jr.'s actions. His top-level villains are not so well defined, having too much vagueness about their background and how they came to their current way of thinking to make them into real people for me. Along the way, Clancy makes points about the ability of the various intelligence agencies to crack most of the available encryption codes for e-mail via a combination of back-door programming entries and some brute force computing power. This is something I'm not at all sure is close to the reality - if it is then why are these agencies consistently supporting legislation to limit encryption algorithms and want to have a requirement for government-held secondary keys (not to mention the right to unlimited wiretaps and access to ISP's user data). But it is clear that Clancy is saying that the only way to defeat terrorism is to have such abilities, regardless of what such items would do to the right to privacy. In fact, with his 'solution' to terrorism, Clancy seems to be advocating the complete abrogation of the rule of law, that an individual's judgement of another's fitness for elimination is enough, without recourse to the courts. This book is slightly better than the last, Red Rabbit, mainly due to breath of fresh air of his new characters, but suffers from the same major fault, that all the planned actions go exactly as planned, there are no mistakes, no random happenstances that upset the plans, and thus removing any suspense. --- Reviewed by Patrick Shepherd (hyperpat)
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Summary: Worst Ever
Review: This has to be the worst book Clancy has ever written. It has some interesting topics in it but for the most part I had a hard time getting through the book. I haven't been this disappointed sense Without Remorse.
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Summary: Come on - who really wrote this?
Review: It has no teeth, or story for that matter. This is without a doubt Clancy's worst published effort. I've been reading the other reviewer's comments and can only echo their disappointment in the dialogue, and characters. What is truly pitiful is the blatant end pitch to the reader: "Next they'd meet the brain." Wow! If you got a brain, you won't waste your time on, "The Teeth of the Tiger" or the next book, "The Brain of the Foolish".
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Summary: Clancy's call for a facist future
Review: Clancy has found the solution to the world's terrorism problem: A clandestine US agency, without any political overight from venal politicians, will send out teams of assassins to kill anyone it pleases. And to keep out of the eye of Congress, the President, or anyone else, it will fund itself through thievery. The book ends with a series of Keystone Kops-like assassinations; but "ends" is too strong a verb. It merely halts in mid-plot, inviting you to read the next book if you can stomach it. Actually, this book is an improvement over Clancy's previous works. Unlike, for example, _Executive Orders_, someone actually seems to have read it before it was published; I'd like to give that editor some credit for helping reduce (but _not_ eliminate) the boring repetition I've learned to expect, but then again the editor did publish it anyway...
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