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Summary: Solid Clancy effort ... but only half a book
Review: If you liked previous recent Tom Clancy novels, you'll like this one. If you don't like his more recent work, you probably wont.This novel is a good story well told. However, it seems to break off into potential sequel territory very suddenly, somewhat to the detriment of the climax. That aside, the action moves well once it gets going, the characters are generic but due to various family and other relationships seem well known, and there is a good balance of technobabble - enough that the casual reader has no idea if what is happening is plausible, but is not too bogged down in detail. So, why only 3 stars? Its good but not great. Plotlines are telegraphed from several miles off - Mr Clancy is getting worse in this respect (the old Russian sniper's last shot in The Bear and the Dragon, for instance). It is getting harder to believe that there are only (say) 7-10 people on the globe who seem to be able to save the world on a regular basis and display skills outside their strict expertise. Another glitch - which may be minor or major depending on the type of reader you are - is the mixing of Mr Clancy's world which as far as I can tell dates back to about 1980 - and the real world events which obviously inspired this novel. At the risk of offending, when exactly did the Twin Towers fall in Tom Clancy's world? Who was president then? This novel is perhaps best viewed as the first of the "next generation" of Mr Clancy's tales, but unfortunately, while an enjoyable read, it is no Hunt for Red October.
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Summary: Introduction of Jack Ryan Jr.
Review: Tom Clancy has established all new faces in the same field: international terrorism. Very well written, sometimes too graphically for my taste. The successors to Jack Ryan Sr. and crew are established. Much more to come. Clancy again very well on top of the news. Jack Ryan jr. follows his father in defending our liberty. Brilliantly written a typical Tom Clancy
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Summary: Clancy lite - very lite
Review: A major disappointment for a big fan. It's short, simple, thinly plotted, has almost no character development, is barely believable and sets up so obviously for a sequel that you want to throw the book across the room when you finish it. It's the weakest sole effort to date. Reread any of his earlier work instead, it will be much more rewarding.
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Summary: No teeth in this Clancy novel
Review: First, i like to say that i have read just about all of Clancys books, so i think i know what i am talking about. I just finished the book and i was not very happy with it. Lets start at the beginning, first the time line does not work. Jack jr. is now an adult, but President Ryan only served one term. I also think the whole idea of the book goes against everthing that Clancy has brought us to think about Jack Ryan. He has always been the one to follow the law, now we are to believe that he would set up this group completely outside the law. I also got the sence that Jack jr was name dropping every time he was talking about his Dad,which he does throughout the book. I hope Tom Clancy will continue with his next book with Jack Ryan still President.
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Summary: One of Clancy's best
Review: "Teeth of the Tiger" is one of Clancy's best works so far. After a terrorist attack in the US, the Caruso twins are recruited by a private intelligence organization (called The Campus, instituted by former President and king spook, Jack Ryan, Sr.) to take out some of terrorism's major players. Jack Ryan Jr. plays a fairly significant roll as a rookie Campus analyst, but plays a major role at the end, in an ironic turn of events. Sorry, you'll have to read yourself......another masterpiece by Mr. Clancy.
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Summary: A Jack Jr. book
Review: The book was generally OK. If it made one more reference though to what Jack Sr. might think about Jack Jr's new career I thought I might scream. (--just let him give dad a call and drop the other shoe already!) It spends lots of ink tieing in references to the Ryans, Foleys, Clark/Rainbow etc., but the only real payoff here is if you have read previous books. When you feel five pages left between your fingers with the final showdown still left to come you suddenly know there is not going to be much in the way of a resolution or epilogue. Indeed while the book ends complete, it sets up a sequel instead of congratulating the reader for having made it to the end. Seeing all of the references to the previous books, but not actually involving ANY of the characters was puzzling. Why keep them in third person compartments? It was like reading Op-Center or Net Force where you know they are a different part of the Clancy corporate universe. Dad, Clark, etc. are all "over fifty" so they can't be involved as the new organization bounces total newbies around Europe with their poison pens. (The only people we can bet this new multi-million dollar secret organization on is a couple of trainees --they can do jobs in multiple cities but no police/NSA/CIA will notice that they have checked into the next door room of the same hotel.) At 450 pages or so there was a lot of character build up with endless self inspection and only a few sections of payoff. If you are waiting for a "frisbees of dreamland" or "hyperwar" chapter don't hold your breath. On Fox News Tom Clancy said he was going to take a bit of a break so it may be a while before these characters get their next assignment or the "over fifty" folks are heard from again.
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Summary: ANOTHER OVERWEIGHT BLUBBER.
Review: Remember Red Rabbit? Well, this one is even worse! Tom Clancy has lost it, yet keeps trying to prove this fact again and again with megamoths of words just placed one besides the other.And the political preaching reaches meltdown levels... Someone, please, pull the plug!...
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Summary: ANOTHER OVERWEIGHT BLUB...
Review: Remember Red Rabbit? Well, this one is even worse! Tom Clancy has lost it, yet keeps trying to prove this fact again and again with megamoths of words just placed one besides the other. Someone please pull the plug...
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Summary: What a dog
Review: Clancy stole my $... (...) The book is boring, predicable, and short. If he wanted to do a book like this write an other Rainbow book. They at least are interesting. The action sequences are more like watching fish being shot in a barrel. The intel gathering parts of the book push voluntary suspension of disbelief to its very edge with circumstance and coincidence. I keep thinking the hardy boys of gone sociopathic. I loved Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Rainbow Six, and Red Rabbit but this one really drags down my opinion of the man.
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Summary: Normally love clancy but this was a dog
Review: Should have flushed my ...bucks down the can instead. Dull with no surprises. Spoiler/ Plot summary follows: Ryan sets up another covert action group. Rainbow was not doing the job? This one is based on stolen data from NSA and CIA. The have a very small direct action wing read as 3. Terrorist plan and execute bad thing in U.S. Good guys track down and kill some of them using email intercepts. Jack Jr. involved and some of his cousins. I keep thinking the hardy boys.
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