The Teeth of the Tiger

Rating:
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.

Rating:
Summary: Good But Slow for the First 150 Pages
Review: Many judge each of Clancy's newest book by some standard that refers to all of his past writings. That is okay but short changes any new book since it is impossible for Clancy to top some of his old writings.

I was surprised by this book. The first 50 to 100 pages are by any measure just average, very average and I considered throwing away the book, and if you stopped reading there I would agree with some other comments on the book - it would be a dud. But read on! After 150 pages or so the book really picks up and just flashes by. I ended up reading most of the book in just two sittings (one all night seemingly), and once I got to somewhere around page 150 to 175, I could not put the book down until the end - and to me that is the measure by which I would judge all of these types of books.

One can argue the plot in which an FBI agent and a marine do extra judicial killings Israeli style, but that misses the point. It is a compelling and entertaining read with an uncertain ending. What more can one ask for? But you have to read past the first marginally interesting 100 pages to 150 pages. Still I can see it merits at least 4 stars, clearly more than 3, but possibly not 5 stars. In any case it is very entertaing once you get past the first third or so.