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Summary: We're back on track...
Review: It was good to be drawn in again to the Clancy we all know and love. He takes the "Ryan" legacy to intense and interesting levels and pulls the reader into the story. I had a hard time putting it down as it tapped into my political curiosities and patriotic emotions. The contemporaneous setting truely allows the reader to become intellectually involved with the plots and how the characters are developed.
The ending? Sounded like Mr. Clancy has the follow-up already in the works. Strongly recommend!
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Summary: A disappointed Clancy fan
Review: This book just doesn't measure up! The main characters are poorly developed and have a shallow sort of feel to them (I found myself thinking, "Where the heck are the guys like Clark and Chavez?"), and some of the "old" characters from previous books are summarily dismissed or unconvincingly written out of the story. I began wondering if Mr. Clancy had difficulty meeting a deadline with this one . . . I normally read a Clancy novel in a day, just because I can't put it down. I read this one in a day too--but only to finish it and get on to something more interesting. An additional problem was the number of grammatical errors in this book. Perhaps a new editor would help?
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Summary: Not Clancy's Best Work
Review: While the idea behind "The Teeth of the Tiger" is an interesting one, this is not one of Tom Clancy's better books. It feels as if he rushed this book out in response to the events of 9/11. The story is not as well developed as some of his others, and the dialog is cliche, repetitive, and generally annoying. In addition, the story spends way too much time making references to older Clancy books and the adventures of Jack Ryan Sr. If you haven't read many of Clancy's earlier novels (especially the recent ones) then much of "The Teeth of the Tiger" will be lost on you. If you took out all the back references, the book would probably be 1/3 of its current size. All in all, this book feels like one of Clancy's "OpCenter" series--it's not the engaging, smart, or behind the scenes type of book that Clancy fans have come to expect from him. If you like the whole counterterrorism theme, I highly recommend Mr. Clancy's "Rainbow Six" instead. It is a much better developed and engaging book. I only wish he had spent his time expanding on the great story and characters from "Rainbow Six" instead of introducing a completely new cast of players and plot line in "Teeth" that essentially are the same thing--just not as good.
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Summary: Not up to Clancy's usual standard
Review: I really enjoy Tom Clancy's novels. This one was a bit disappointing, although I understand it's purpose. He introduces several "new" characters since he's done about all he can with Jack Ryan. Jack Ryan, Jr. is being groomed to take his father's role. This book had a very weak plot (and too much filler, but that's the norm for Clancy - I can live with that). There was decent character development, but that's about the only positive thing I can say. After reading the last page, my thought was, "That was it?" Get's 3 stars because I like Tom Clancy and think there can be some good books to follow this one. But Tom was lazy with this one.
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Summary: Good read, similar to other books
Review: Good read. The first 200 pages get into a lot of detail, but then it takes off. The story seems to focus around two recruits, Brian(Marine) & Dominic(FBI)and the Jack Ryan, Jr. character doesn't really come to life until toward the end. Prior to that it's more like, 'meanwhile back at the ranch, Jack Ryan, Jr., etc.' Some of the same story ideas can also be found in "Surgeons Of Terror (Feb. 2002)," (A Group Formed to Fight Terrorist & The Drug Network/Terrorist Connection). Two of the characters are similar to ones found in "Their Agency Fathers (Jun. 2003).", Blue Jay(Marine) & Bean(Special Forces). If you like, The Teeth of the Tiger, you may enjoy those stories as well.
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Summary: less than gripping
Review: I have in the past enjoyed Mr. Clancy's books, but this one was really lacking. The story was weak, and the characters were flat. By the end of the book, I didn't care what happened to these three shallow boys.
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Summary: Nice start. Franchise obviously coming
Review: Over the years I have winnowed down the amount of crap reading that I do to a limited few authors that I enjoy all their work (or most.) Clancy, Cornwall, Coupland -- that's it. Though all three are guilty pleasures and are hugely popular they all have continued to put out good books. Two (Clancy and Cornwall) have got a bad case of sequelitis. I really had hope that with Clancy's last two he had broken the cycle. He had established a good storyline with both Red Rabbit and Rainbow Six that could have been pursued well, dropping his excellent but played-out Ryan as a central figure. I had great hope that he would not become the shameless moneymachine that Crichton and Grisham have become (can you say formulaic, because they sure can!) So I looked forward to Tiger, but I was to be disappointed. Clancy forsakes the indepth development of intrigue he usually does well and goes straight to cloning Ryan as his son and cloning Clark into two Carusos (leaving one as a spare so he can kill him off in the future with much pathos.) He dumps all his previous lines with Dallas-like "dreaming in the shower" incompleteness. But most offensively he developes a storyline without doing anything with it. I guess he intended this as a primer for the rest of his books but it comes off as a bad comic book origins edition. That aside the story does seem promising, but Jack is getting his spurs and epaulets too fast, and without the driving psychological factors that developed Jack Sr. so well. And to top it all off, the damn thing just stops. What about climax, what about denuement. Did Clancy stroke out the basic lessons of grammar school creative writing? All that said I am sure I will buy the next one. Candy rots your teeth but it is tasty.
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Summary: Ryan torch moves on to the next generation
Review: In Maryland, Hendley Associates successfully works the stock, bond, and international currency markets. However, in reality the trader business serves as a front because the prime mission of the firm is to root out and eliminate terrorists. United States President John Patrick Ryan is not interested in the means, but only the results of the group. Only a small elect circle of people who need to know understand that Hendley Associates otherwise known as "The Campus, is really a black ops organization. The firm also understands hat there is a need for new blood if they want to avoid stagnation and complacency. However, it takes a special person to join this elite group. Right now they are looking closely at a trio of related men who happen to have close ties the President since two are his nephews, FBI Agent Dominic Caruso and his brother Marine Captain Brian Caruso and the third is his son Jack Ryan, Jr. It remains to be seen if this threesome lives up to the gene pool of the previous generation. Jack, Sr. seem like kindergarten? The torch moves on to the next generation of warriors with an ease that will not surprise readers who expect innovative ideas from this great author. The story line is typical Tom Clancy: exciting top rate action as the war against terrorism goes into hyperspeed. Doubts will linger about close relatives to a sitting president being involved in anti-terrorist activities. It is hard to picture the two sons of George Bush, Sr. running around as Feds or combat soldiers before joining an elite black ops cell or any child of a Congressman serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. Still fans of action packed thrillers will know Mr. Clancy has created a fantastic tale. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: The Tiger Bites Back
Review: New heroes - the son of Jack Ryan and his nephews, are introduced as part of a super-secret quasi-governmental organization. They fight the new enemies - the muslim terrorist organizations, who hate and attack the US. In fighting them, our heroes attack the enemy before the enemy attacks the US. I rated this book average because the descriptions of world politics and the use of advanced technology were not as crisp nor as involved as in previous novels. Also, the morally conflicting code of pre-emptive assasination was not satisfactorily resolved.
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Summary: Consistent with the "new" Clancy
Review: Clearly, the Jack Ryan series had run its course. There really wasn't anything left to do and the stories became rehashes. So wisely, Clancy decided on a middle ground to appeal to everyone: new characters, but ones related to Jack Ryan... namely, his son and two nefews. There are also a few of Jack's old cronies thrown in for good measure. The problem is, this book suffers from the exact same problems that every one of his recent titles, since Debt of Honor, suffers from: very bad writing. The story itself is not entirely bad, though it's pretty unimaginative by Clancy standards. But it's basically the same Good Guy dialogue over and over again. The same characters seem to have exactly the same conversations in every single chapter. It can be extremely tedious. And even more problematic, is that somehow Clancy forgot how real people talk. The dialogue is just completely cheezy... it's clear he never met a cliche he didn't like. I have no qualms saying this is the worst Clancy novel to date. I thought Executive Orders was bad and The Bear and the Dragon worse, but this one takes the cake. Clancy's proven he can write a brilliant novel on Middle East terrorism (The Sum of All Fears), and it's just disappointing how far he's fallen.
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