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Summary: Lack of Creativity and Anti-Climactic
Review: One star because it's Tom Clancy. Two stars because it's Tom Clancy. Three stars because it doesn't deserve four. The book starts off with the usual hook, a spy gets murdered. What should the good guys do now? A secret privatized "CIA-like" organization decides to rid the world of the man who did it. The book brings Jack Ryan Jr. to the forefront as a main character and is no longer relegated to subplots. Also included are his two cousins, the Carusos (one an FBI agent, the other a Marine Captain). Jack Jr. is exactly like his father. He listens to the same radio programs on his way to work, went to the same school, studied the same things, went into the investing business as Dad once did. There is constant reference to points that occurred in Clancy's recent works which would be lost on a reader who hasn't read his other books. I must hand it to Clancy in making the Marine the one with a conscience problem and the cop the one eager to send people to the grave. The plot is not Clancy's usual. There are no subplots. This extremely short Clancy text has one plot only, kill four terrorists. There is some text dealing with the lives of those terrorists but the heroes don't save the world from some cataclismic disaster. Instead, 4 shopping mall shootouts kill about a hundred Americans. If Clancy intended them to have more grandiose goals, he certainly didn't make it apparent to the reader. If he was trying to write a simple intro for Jack Jr. in order to continue the "ryan-verse" story line, he succeeded. If he was trying to write a good book he failed. Wait till paper back. Look at Red Rabbitt for vintage Clancy (now out in paperback). BTW, Jack Sr. does not appear once in the book, only passing references are made.
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Summary: Not with a bang, but a whimper
Review: Jack Ryan and John Clark have evidently gotten too old, so Tom Clancy tries to keep the franchise alive by introducing us to "The Next Generation" - Jack Ryan, Jr. and his twin cousins, Brian and Dominic Caruso. The story plods along for 200 pages before *any* real action takes place...and it's not even a surprise - you'll see it coming 50 pages before it happens. This is by far the worst of the Clancy books I've read - the characters are two-dimensional, the plot is uninteresting and the pace is glacial. At 430 pages at least it is mercifully short (by Clancy standards), but I kept waiting for him to just get on with it and tell the story already. I found the "bad guys" to be the most interesting part of the book. As I mentioned in the title of this review, the book ends not with a bang, but a whimper. Very disappointing.
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Summary: Fine Clancy, 400-pg. thriller: revenge on Muslim terrorists
Review: If you've suffered through some of Clancy's 1000+-page thrillers as we have, we think you'll appreciate his latest. Having just about played his Jack Ryan character for all it was worth, we now get the author's first to feature Jack junior, who appears to be taking up right where his father left off when Dad was also in the "spook" business. Adding to the interest are two Ryan cousins, Brian and Dominic Caruso: -- ex-officio Marine and FBI respectively. All three young men have a new job assignment with a clandestine commercial outfit known as the Hendley Associates located in suburban Maryland (Clancy's real life environs). The company is a financial management firm that keeps an ultra low profile in both its business milieu and the local community. What the company really does is operate as a non-government adjunct to the CIA and the FBI -- one with all the access to classified intelligence that the official agencies do but one with a mission condoned by ex-President Ryan to operate on imperatives it feels necessary. Translation -- they can kill bad guys. We watch Jack Jr. learn the financial and intelligence analysis ropes while his cousins are in training of a different sort -- how to track and execute "targets" with a space-age pen-injection needle that delivers a poison that causes an immediate and painful death in its recipient, but breaks down quickly in the dead body so that nothing but a massive heart attack remains for the medical examiners to fret over. While these guys are learning their new duties, the story alternates with four groups of terrorist Muslims from Saudi Arabia who infiltrate the US, with some help and automatic weapons from some drug-dealing Mexicans. The four groups spread out to four "heartland" areas of the US and proceed to mass murder a bunch of innocent civilians in local shopping malls ere they are all taken down and lose their lives (and proceed according to their belief to Paradise). Enter the newly trained crew to hunt out and "handle" people involved in their caper and you get a pretty good drift of the plot. We felt the storytelling was typically good Clancy -- the alternating plots were entertaining and that some hefty revenge was imposed upon the higher up culprits was satisfying. Some racial and ethnic stereotyping may bother some readers, and of course the Muslims make numerous anti-Semitic references to Israel and its citizens and defenders. The length of the book was refreshingly just about right. Although it ended somewhat abruptly, the stage is set for many more Clancy additions to this story line if he so desires. Meanwhile, we think most readers will enjoy this tale of international intrigue and terror.
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Summary: What was he thinking?
Review: The real Tom Clancy must have been kidnapped by aliens and replaced by some kind of clone. How else can one explain how someone who brought us such terrific yarns as Red October and Patriot Games, could pen something as bad as Teeth of the Tiger. The book is terrible. The characters are one-dimensional, everyone is somehow related which is wildly contrived, and the plot is ridiculous. It is formulaic drivel at its worst.
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Summary: The Next Generation of Clancy Revealed!
Review: Tom Clancy's highly anticipated political thriller 'The Teeth of the Tiger' finally delivers what Clancy fans have been waiting for-the next generation of Clancy protagonists! Starring Jack Jr the son of the infamous Jack Ryan and his twin cousins Brian and David Caruso, Clancy spins his often overly realistic tail of international terrorist cat and mouse with accurate assesments of the real world and an upbeat tempo that is guaranteed to keep you reading until the last terrorist is dead! 5 Stars!
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Summary: This is chapter one of many to come
Review: Ok, the book in general is a good Clancy read which i finished in a few days. He mentions many subjects in this book that could lead you to believe that a book that would fill the time period between this one and Executive Orders or Rainbow Six is in the works. This book introduces us to three new characters. Jack Jr. and his two cousins and another anti-terrorist group operating out side of normal channels. Clancy keeps the plot flowing but doesn't really build the character's background very well. Perhaps he'll fill the gaps in, in later novels. If you like Clancy's other books you'll like this one.
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Summary: The Teeth of the Tiger
Review: Is it possible that I am the first person to review this book because no one else could actually finish it? This is a terrible book. The plot is minimal, the characters barely developed, and the writing is unrealistic. OK, so Jack Jr's father was the President - can he have at least one conversation with someone without reminding them of this fact. I think Tom Clancy has run out of ideas - if he is even still writing the books in this series. I would give this one zero stars if possible.
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Summary: A whole new era!
Review: When I first grabbed this book I was stunned at how light it was! After Clancy's recent titles Red Rabbit and The Bear and the Dragon, I was expecting another LONG book. This book is much shorter and I feel it is very well written. Clancy seems to be replacing his two best characters: Jack Ryan Sr. and John Clark, both of whom were just getting too old to be action guys anymore. Their replacements are excellent at taking our minds off of the loss of Jack and John. Speaking of the replacements, the new Jack Ryan is none other than Jack Jr.! He is all grown up and has graduated from Georgetown. Now he is making his way as an intelligence analyst just like his father. On the action side, John Clark has been replaced by twin brothers (one is a Marine, the other an FBI agent) recruited to fight the bad guys. On the upside, the plot line is tight, complete with the Clancy twists and turns we love, yet it does not become overly complicated. Simultaneously, we see a terrorist plot unfold before our eyes with Jack Jr. and the good guys racing to save the day. Unpredictably, they do not completely save the day and the end of the book shows us how sweet revenge can be! This is a thriller at its best and I cannot wait to see where these new characters might go in the future!
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Summary: Can't believe no one else has reviewed this book yet!
Review: Ok, so evidently Tom Clancy is slowing down a little. This book read more like an Op-center novellette than a traditional Tom Clancy work. However, it was enjoyable if short, interesting if not earth-shattering. The premise, a non-governmental agency tasked to tracking and eliminating international terrorists, is intriguing, and should make for good future material. The ending did setup a sequel pretty well, so I expect we will see more of Jack Jr. and the Caruso twins. I hope they get a bit better treatment as time goes on.
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Summary: Very disappointing - only half a book
Review: Teeth of the tiger disappointed me on several fronts. The most aggregious offence is the ending - it's only half a book. It stops in midstream without ending and with nothing resolved, without even much of a climax. So you'll be forced to buy the sequel which may finish the story. I also found it lame that Clancy chooses to introduce Jack Ryan's son plus two of his cousins as the heros. Not only have we never heard of these guys before in any other clancy books, it's just too implausible. Finally, the plot is so much narrower than his first several really big books with really big ideas. The terrorists aren't really that bad - just stupid. The idea that the agency would randomly send a brand new analyst who also happens to be the presidents son into harm's way is ridiculous. This one feels more like the op center paperback series than the traditional clancy works, and all in all I was very disappointed.
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