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Summary: Not even close to his best!
Review: I am a dedicated Clancy fan I started out on Rainbow Six. Tons of action good character development worth the reading so I've compared all of his ooks to that.
Patriot Games-Very Good Story
Hunt for Red October- Takes too long to get started
Red Rabbit- Way too long and no action
The Teeth of the Tiger- Decent but should have been longer to actually finish the story of drug cartels and terrorists. Not just talk about the cartels for 2 pages then leave them.
This was an ok book the action that was there was good but not detailed enough.
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Summary: 0 Stars was not an option
Review: Clancy's latest really surprised me. After Red Rabbit, I swore I would not waste any more time or money on his books. However,
I took a chance that Red Rabbit was errant blip on the greed screen, and bought The Teeth of the Tiger. This book is even worse. Pages are devoted to things like the condition of a character's sneakers, and Jack Jr.'s favorite radio station.
Don't waste your money on this book. Clancy owes all his (ex) readers an apology, and owes me [money] for the money I wasted on this drivel.
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Summary: Save 20 hours-read "SOG" instead
Review: I am compelled to write a review (for the first time) of this god awful book. As a retired Special Forces officer and avid reader, I really enjoyed clancy's first books. This one is just drival, with no redeeming features-No plot, inane charactures, insepid talk by all the charactures(eg. no educated brothers woudld ever talk this way) and the cardinal sin for a Clancy book-minimal, rather boring action that doesn't even start until page 200. I got duped by reading the first chapter at the book store-pretty good I thought. Maybe I'll give him a try again (I stopped reading him several books ago for the above reasons)-fooled me! I was actually ticked i had spent the time to read this book, so buy/read at your own risk. Read "SOG" instead...incredible stories of bravery and action by special forces soldiers in Viet Nam that makes clancy seem like a hack, which he's fast becoming
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Summary: Will he charge us again for the 2nd half of the story?
Review: Like several other of the reviewers, I have been a fan since Red October. However, the last Clancy saga I really enjoyed was Rainbow Six. I would have been even willing to put up w/ the central characters that act, speak, and think alike. However, when I found the pages running out without even a truly satisfying payoff, I really felt cheated. I may find future volumes from the library, but I will not be rushing off in the future to purchase them.
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Summary: ... and now junior"
Review: Clancy lost all conection with reality. Besides, the book has no argument att all... foun it hard to finish. Jack Ryan "saved" the world about what... 8 times? now Jack Jr. becomes the avenging hand of god??? It is an insult to the inteligence community.
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Summary: Please...Stop!
Review: Tom Clancy fosters a reputation as a conservative intellectual. I've enjoyed his Jack Ryan books (and Red Storm Rising) because, despite the shallow characterizations, he usually was able to provide some thoughtful counterpoint to my usually liberal view. But this book is just awful. The characters are shallow and sophomoric. The dialogue is painful. And the worst transgression is the moral ambiguity. I have no real problem with hunting down and killing terrorists - this is a war after all. But the insipid rationalizations used in this book, the flippant frat-boy posing, are just to much to bear. And I have a great deal of trouble with the process by which Clancy turns a decorated Marine officer, an FBI agent, and the son of a President into paid assassins virtually overnight. Not to mention the somewhat incredible premise of a twin brother hit team, assisted by a first son. This is corporate "thriller-writing" at it's worst. Please stop.
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Summary: Filling a book quota?
Review: I've read all of Clancy's major fiction and some of the non-fiction, and I am generally a big fan. Unfortunately, I think that he's in an 0-2 slump. Red Rabbit was boring. Teeth of the Tiger is not so much boring as it is not compelling. Maybe Clancy is trying to portray real espionage for what it is, fairly dull. I am far from a literary snob, but I found the conversations to be methodical and forced, and the lack of action - or even tension, to be very apparent.I surely hope for better Clancy soon. I agree with some other reviews that the only purpose of this book seemed to have was to introduce characters for later books. Or maybe TC was just trying to meet a quota.
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Summary: YOU DON'T KNOW JACK!
Review: I realize that no author, like no actor, wants to be typecast or relegated to the position of having to pursue a single character when hoping to broaden the creative portfolio. But Clancy must realize that readers, especially those who have found a hero, want to continue the story again and again and again. Jack Ryan is such a hero and we haven't grown tired yet. In Teeth of the Tiger Clancy's substitution of our hero with Jack Jr. and his cousins does not come close to repairing damages. The book does offer a well-written story, characteristic of other Clancy non-Jack Ryan novels like Rainbow Six, and may appeal to Clancy first-timers. But it's just not the same for those of us who have come to know Jack Ryan. The characters lack the personality that has become the hallmark of the Jack Ryan stories. Come to think of it, I think I will go back and reread Clear and Present Danger, Debt of Honor and Executive Orders again. You should too.
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Summary: The tiger has no teeth
Review: What a horroble book! Like many others, I have relished the series from Clancy but this is the worst. It has no character development, and horrible dialog. I was ready to gag after reading "Roger that, bro." a million times. The story just seems to be a vehicle for Clancy's desire for vigilante justice.
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Summary: Has Mr Clancy lost his touch?
Review: Some authors write with an uncanny sense of imagination, intrigue and innuendo and as a result, their books become best sellers overnight. Some even plumbed the depths of previous works, hoping to build story lines from plots that were discarded earlier.
There is nothing wrong to explore intriguing ideas that had to be left out from earlier works. Sadly, sometimes by going back, new works failed to break new ground or to tickle the mind. And this is what happened with Tom Clancy's The Teeth of the Tiger.
As one of the top writers of military hardware, spycraft and political chicanery, it is indeed depressing to wait a year for a new book to come out, only to discover that it does not quite fit into the expectations that previous works attained.
In the earlier Debt of Honor for example, Clancy opened our eyes into the minds of right wing nationalists when they crashed an airliner into the US Capitol ' and indeed, [imitation] religious fanatics followed up by crashing jet planes into the World Trade Centre in New York two years ago.
Naturally, with the war against terrorism in full swing, a similar tale could be found in Rainbow Six where we read of exploits by Special Forces soldiers, whose responsibilities, operations and weaponry are often described in such fine detail that you could not help but be transported to the scenes of these fictional crime scenes.
In Teeth of the Tiger, the plot rests around a basic premise: a South American drug baron joined forces with suicidal Islamic fanatics, capitalising of their mutual need for survival with the latter's intention of sowing havoc in US cities. Add a bit of amateurish cloak-and-dagger spycraft, high-class callgirls doubling up as informants to the British secret service, a mysterious bin-Laden lookalike character known as the emir, and even actual historical events, and viola, a story is born.
After the wanton murders, the pace moved faster when associates of these terrorists were hunted down and killed, one by one in different European cities, using a novel new untraceable drug. One could not help but noticed a similar event: in the aftermath of the Munich Olympics massacre by Palestinian terrorists, Prime Minister Golda Meir ordered the Israeli secret service Mossad, to hunt down all the perpetrators of the crime. No terrorist survived.
The book ended the way it began: as the Rome station chief of Mossad was murdered while servicing a dead-drop (no pun intended), so was the operational head of the suicide team, Mohammed Hassan. As the Caruso brothers were momentarily inconvenienced, Ryan was left to finish the task at hand, thus earning his baptism of fire.
In this post September 11 world, we acknowledge that terrorists, sleeper cells and silent supporters could be living in our midst. Naturally, law-enforcement officers, intelligence organisations and the military from all over the world are working very hard to break apart any planned terrorist activity and to root out any remnants of such organisations.
With Teeth of the Tiger, one could not help but feel that the book was rushed out in a hurry. There appeared to be no deep research, none of the well thought-out plot lines that were hallmarks of Clancy's earlier epics, or even multiple plots running simultaneously such as what you would find in Clancy's first work The Hunt for Red October. After completing this book, I could not help but felt that story lines that were left out from earlier novels ' such as Rainbow Six ' are now rehashed into this book. Oh, what a let down, Mr. Clancy!
What made Clancy's previous works stood out was the great attention to details that made imaginative plots sound so plausible. For instance, using South American drug barons as 'partners-in-crime' are so common anywhere from movies to comedies to songs that it has become cliché. What would be truly interesting would perhaps be an unholy alliance of North Korea's illicit activities ' in drug smuggling, currency counterfeiting and illegal weapon sales ' with those of Islamic fundamentalists.
It would also be interesting to read how governments around the world track and interdict North Korea's spy-cum-smuggle fishing trawlers using anything from satellites, spies and scopes. I can imagine Clancy describing in minute detail the goings-on inside a JSTARS aeroplane.
Or perhaps if Al Qaeda managed to buy a mini-sub from North Korea's special forces to attack US interests in the Pacific. Or, how about exploring the subtle intricacies between government [evilness], high society living, with criminal activities such as money laundering or terrorist fund raising.
Where military hardware and action sequences were described in great detail in earlier works, these are almost non-existent in Teeth of the Tiger. Perhaps Clancy may be a victim of his works. Once where just the mention of his name could open many doors and leak countless secrets on military prowess, today's heightened security atmosphere coupled with the Pentagon's uberhawks Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz paranoia might now bar the corridors of military power, regardless of celebrity authors.
In 1986, after reading The Hunt for Red October, I wrote to Mr. Clancy appreciating the quality of his work, and that I looked forward to greater works in future. He replied to thank me and until this book, he did not disappoint. Perhaps writing has become a drudgery or perhaps his personal life had taken a toll on his imagination or perhaps his new wife is not a fan of the military. Whatever the case, The Teeth of the Tiger could point us to a new direction when young Ryan and his generation could once again wreck havoc on the enemies of good. I should look forward to the next Clancy's book.
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