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Summary: Time to move on . . .
Review: Perhaps Mr. Clancy didn't write this book. At least that's what I choose to believe. It just isn't coming close to what readers of novels such as Patriot Games and Clear/Present Danger grew to expect. It reads more like Op-Center stuff.
Time to move on to the next gen in this genre, like Brad Thor and Michael Hawke.
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Summary: Bring back the old characters
Review: These new characters are like old Clancy lite. Watered down versions of everyone's favorite characters, Clark, Jack Ryan, the Foleys, Ding...I did not like this book...
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Summary: Weak but still fun
Review: This is not Clancy's best and may be his worst but fans (like me) will/do still like it to a limited degree.
Set in the future when President Ryan is in retirement (don't ask what happened to Robby) along with Mary Pat and her husband and one time Secret Service Agent Andrea, who is about to go off and raise cattle in Maine with her hubby.
Clancy's hero is Jack Ryan Jr. and, wait for it, his two cousins who just happen to be a super shoting FBI agent and a killing machine Marine. The setting is, natch, Islamic terrorists attacking America--and how this Tiger bites back!
Okay so far, you say. Well, the big catch is that for a thriller to work, the bad guy has to be worth opposing ---but this one isn't. The characters are paper thin and the plot, aside from a few asides, the most boring yet from Clancy...all of which makes the struggles of the hero hardly worth reading about.
In fact, I suspect Clancy was just bored: he has resorted to over-worn thriller cliches, including the unthrilling coincidence of having the two top notch US assassins on the scene when terrorists strike a mall and having our hero work for a totally unknown secret private anti-terrorist agency that isn't even known to exist by POTUS. Add in a new top secret drug that kills a man in 30 seconds (maybe this one does exist but it's still sold as mini-SciFi) and you have little more than a re-run of the Man from Uncle!
Lord, I can't tell you how disappointed I was ...maybe poor sales will make this author try just a little bit harder next time around. 'Cos if he doesn't ..........
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Summary: was my copy of the book missing the last 150 pages????
Review: this is probably one of the worst endings to a book that i have seen. i was certain that the last 150 pages of my book were missing. this is like building a house and forgetting to put a roof on it. and this from a guy who packs more action into the last 150-200 pages of a book than anyone. i honestly cant believe that he wrote this book -either that, or this book is simply the preamble, and he is setting us up for an unbelievable sequal where we will see the "teeth" of the tiger.
also, whats with the the 2 names per brother- i was back and forth trying to remember "which one was what one, or what one was who"(dr, seuss). please mr. clancy, read these many, and consistent reviews before you write the next book. thanks.
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Summary: A bad fall
Review: This looks like the "OpCenter" novels -- short, dumb, and a far cry from previous Clancy's books. The plot is flimsy, the heroes (all family) do away with all enemies without any problems, and a bad guy is left over (a Bond-esque Blofeld) for further novels... I'm not certain whether I'll read the next novel.
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Summary: I'd give it less stars if I could...
Review: To be fair, I thought the idea of a clandestine, vigilante group to be intriguing. (Why not level the playing field? After all, we can't win 'til we're all playing by the same rules.) But after reading Teeth of the Tiger, I've sworn off anything new from Tom Clancy (especially since this is the second stinker in a row). This was barely worthy of a soap opera / sit-com writer. The dialog is mostly unbelievable and annoyingly repetative; the plot is so contrived that F.W. Dixon--who wrote the Hardy Boys--would've reconsidered it. ("Let's see, we need an intel weenie to go help the twins. Has to be somebody young, someone they trust..." Hmmm, who will it be?)
I don't know if it's because of the successful movie versions, but it seems like he's "dumbing down" his books for a wider appeal. How about we just get smarter readers?
This wasn't even palatable as a propaganda piece like the ones produced during the 1940's.
If you've run out of ideas, take a break - you must have enough money by now.
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Summary: Hunt for Tom Clancy
Review: Where has the Tom Clancy that we all know gone???
I read this book in one day - I could not put it down. That's not to say that I found it captivating - but I kept reading to find out what the twist was going to be.....it never came. I thought the idea of 'the campus' (a privately run espionage agency) was laughable at best, but thought 'what the hell, we've read enough about the CIA, this could be refreshing'. Oh, how wrong I was!! Then to introduce Jack Ryan Jnr., and his two cousins (who just happen to be fraternal twins) and who, from memory have never been mentioned in any of his previous works, was ridiculous... but I read on anyway. I could not understand the need to spend 5 or so pages descibing the early childhood and subsequent career of the Mossad agent only to kill him off a few pages later and then not tie that into the story apart from mentioning that it was a joy kill for the story's "BAD GUY" (a phrase used about 300 times throught the book). And Tom, maybe it's just me, but if you are going to introduce two main characters, for God's sake don't give them nicknames. I had to start taking notes to try and keep track of who was talking to who - was it Enzo or Aldo? or maybe it was Brian. No wait, I think it was Domonic!! or was it Jack Ryan Jnr. who couldn't seem to go one paragraph without referring to his father, grandfather, mother, sisters..... Who wrote this drivel, Tom Clancy Jnr. or his twin cousins Alberto and Gino????? I have read all the Jack Ryan series (with the exception of Red Rabbit) and loved every one of them. While most (not all) were verbose in the description of characters and their thoughts, the plot was that good that it was easy to forgive and even overlook it. In this book he takes the term 'verbose' to an entirely new level altogether and the plot is that bad that I found myself constantly skimming pages to get back to the story. The countless errors (already mentioned by other reviewers) contained throughout the book made me draw the conclusion that this story was written on a roll of toilet paper while Mr. Clancy was drunk and suffering from an extended bout of verbal diarrhoea. The ending...well what can you say? It just ends!! A 20 year old graduate, come intel analyst, come assassin (after only 2 weeks or so) kills a "BAD GUY", casually says goodbye to his two cousins, jumps on a plane..... and that's it. I for one, will not be rushing out to buy the next installment to see how two "BRO'S" and a "CUZ" manage to neutralize an International Terrorist organization with a laptop and two neurotoxin injecting pens. Sounds more like a Macgyver episode than a true Tom Clancy novel. Shame, Tom, Shame. If you refund the hard earned money I spent on this book and promise to write a serious novel next time (and not a comedy) then I just may reconsider putting you back on my list as "One of the best".
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Summary: Meh
Review: Yeah this book wasn't that good. It moved fairly quick, so it was easy to read, but it was like a bad episode of some cheap TV action series.
The entire duration of the book I could not remember which brother was Aldo and which was Baldo or whatever his name was. All I knew was that one was a Marine and the other was an FBI agent. Those two were just stupid, but not quite as bad as Jack Ryan Jr.. who to me seems like an attempt to just restart the Jack Ryan character rather than come up with anything new.
It was also a real letdown with the action. I was expecting something different to happen, but they just stick three people with needles and that's all. As I read in a earlier review... it was like "thats it?"
Tom Clancy is really not doing so well.
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