Rating: 
Summary: Better than Red Rabbit, but...
Review: An OK book. Nowhere near as good as early Clancy, but it's better than Red Rabbit. As usual, a very fast read. Not quite as repetetive, but still more than necessary. The biggest weakness may be the Jack Junior character. In this respect, he's essentially the same character as his dad in Rabbit: boring, mostly useless, and Clancy conjures up a contrived reason for getting Junior into the middle of book's Hollywood ending. He's really unnecessary for the plot. However, Clancy is setting up some sequels, so he's got to establish his boring characters somehow. How I miss the edge that Clancy gave to characters like John Clark in Without Remorse! Everybody is just too clinical now, just like the way that George Lucas can't make any more interesting characters. Anyway, the twins are basically the same character, and I really couldn't tell them apart. Clancy needs to kill one of them in his next book, just to make the remaining one interesting. What's the deal with Clancy and the word "niggardly"? He used it nonstop in Rainbow Six, and has found a way to somehow use it in the subsequent books. It's almost becoming a Where's Waldo hunt, trying to find out how he's used it in this book. One thing that has always bothered me about Clancy's characters: everybody is white unless he flippantly describes them as "the black sergeant" or whatever. By consistently using this convention to describe characters, he makes everyone else white by default. ...Go ahead and buy it hardcover, if only to wash away the bad taste from the last few books.
Rating: 
Summary: OK, it's short
Review: At 431 pages it's almost a novelette for Tom Clancy, but it's quite a tedious one. It's like watching newsreel footage of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose - this great lumbering beast of a machine flying just above the surface of the water, never taking off, going nowhere but into mothballs.
The dialogue is apparently structured from macros left over on Tom's laptop from previous books, and the characters' internal dialogues are so inane they make your hair hurt.
I would have given it one star but it's not as bad as Red Rabbit.
Rating:
Summary: Not Clancy's Best
Review: The first third of the book was tedious going, but fortunately it picks up in Clancy's usual style. Worth reading to see where the next plot lines will be going
Rating:
Summary: Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy
Review: Having read all of Tom Clancys' previous books, I felt this was the worst book he has ever written. The first half of the book was used to set up the new characters, which is understanding. The problem involves the repetitive nature of the set up. It seemed that every section on the new characters repeated the previous sections. As an example, the sections on the twins during training had them running each morning, eating breakfast, and talking about whether they thought killing terrorists was a good idea. This went on and on from chapter to chapter without variation. The second half of the book started with some of the usual Tom Clancy action and details. It also had real problems. The greatest strengths of previous Tom Clancy books involve their credibility and realism. This book was totally unrealistic. Clancy expects the reader to believe that the son of a former president would be sent to foreign countries with a team of killers (made up of his 2 cousins) to kill terrorists. This happens without anyone recognizing the former presidents' son, while staying in 5 star hotel suites. The ending of the book made me think Clancy left out the last chapters. There was no real ending!! This book seems to have been written by a Tom Clancy wanna be. All in all, this was the most dissappointing Tom Clancy book ever. If this is the best he can do, it might be time to think of retirement!!
Rating:
Summary: Toothless Tiger
Review: This is a book the editor should have sent back for re-work. The plot simply doesn't support 400+ pages, perhaps 20-30 at most, with the rest being Clancy's preaching on a post-9/11 world. Several very annoying issues: why do Aldo and Enzo call each other by their nick-names in almost every sentence?? People -- especially family members --- just don't speak like that. Why does Junior, trying to make his own way in the world, continually talk about his father? Dad this, dad that.... Not realistic. Even the slang like "bro.." and "skank" seemed an attempt to be relevant but came across as an older person's take on what kids today talk like. I even found a Clancy typing error, where the word "now" was "no." All told, an interesting read, but hardly a memorable one.
Rating: 
Summary: The tiger has roared
Review: Its unfortunate that Tom Clancy backed himself into a corner by making John Patrick Ryan the President, hence his future writings for this character are gone.
But, the writing for this book is vintage Clancy !!!!
The good guys wear white (and have no flaws), the bad guys
wear black and there is plenty of action.
Clancy must not being paid by the word, since its less than 450
pages but it is a very, very good yarn.
Rating: 
Summary: Gums of a Pussycat
Review: I would give zero stars if possible. This book was a big disappointment. I read to the end only because I could not believe Tom Clancy would write this poorly. He did.
The characters were shallow and unbelievable. The plot was weak and had massive holes on logic and technology. The plot - wasn't.
Was this ghost written for an author too busy with other projects to even review it before submitting it to the publisher? Where were the editors?
I can not recommend this book to anyone. Before I buy another Clancy book I will carefully research it for quality.
Rating:
Summary: what a disappointment
Review: As a avid Clancy fan it is my opinion that this is a new low for him. The plot is not just far fetched, its ridiculous. The conversation between characters is so full of references to past books that it is incoherent as a stand alone book. Additionally, Mr Clancy seemed more interested in "cute" dialog than advancing a storyline... but then again storyline is so thin that he needed alot of filler. I would not buy this book.
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Summary: Almost back, and with a new cast of characters!
Review: Oh how I wanted to write "Welcome Back Tom!" but I can't, YET. Although 'The Teeth of the Tiger' is considerably better than 'Red Rabbit', it isn't on par with Mr. Clancy's earlier work. And I have read every one of them. His recent novels seem to have serious pacing problems. Red Rabbit took forever and was repetitious to a fault. Teeth of the Tiger started out well, and continued in the Clancy tradition of building up interest and tension right up to the pivotal passage, the simultaneous terrorist attacks in America's heartland, and then inexplicitly the story drove off a cliff. ...
Rating:
Summary: Clancy's running out of steam
Review: I was disappointed in and bored by this book, thoroly spoiled by Clancy's early novels. I found myself flipping pages to get past inane, irrelevant dialog, and kept waiting for some suspense to appear. It never did, or I couldn't grasp it amidst the pages of socio-political philosophizings that Clancy had his young heroes and their mentors mouth. I kept thinking "young American men (that I know) don't talk like that," as tepid dialogs over-punctuated by "roger that, bro" plodded on and on. I found it wearying, too, to wade through all the references to the main characters in Clancy's earlier works. They felt like curtains hung around a rectangle painted on the wall.
The all-American heros and their handlers were never in any significant danger. The big terrorist attack was sobering in its realism, but was tidily cleaned up by our heros and staunch compatriots. Yawn. I literally did a double take on the last page, not ready to accept that the book just ended like a staircase going nowhere.
This is the first time I have ever put my copy of a new book up for e-sale within minutes of closing the cover. I will never read this book again, unlike most titles by early-Clancy, Gresham, Sandford, Woods, Cook, Michener, Chrichton, Forsythe, Brown, et. al.
Take a vacation, Tom!
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