Tom Clancy - The Teeth of the Tiger Books

Pros: Clancy's willingness to create new characters; nifty gadgets; focus on terrorism.
Cons: May be way too violent for some; scenario of shopping mall strikes is very scary!

As every good storyteller can tell you, it’s sometimes good to shake things up a bit, particularly in a long-established franchise as Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series. Since 1984, Clancy’s readers have followed John Patrick Ryan’s ascent ...

Pros: It is a Clancy book, and it is cheap.
Cons: Almost everything

Let me say right off the bat that I have always liked the works of Tom Clancy. I thought Patriot Games was a great read, even though Clancy neglected to research some of the facts concerning British royalty. I liked Red Storm Rising and ...

Pros: fact and fiction blended together, great descriptive writing, international intrigue & great local color.
Cons: action peaks in wrong place, lacks a good editorial trim, I found a mistake too!

*The Teeth of the Tiger, $7.99 US, scribbled by author *Tom Clancy -- is adroit. *Clancy does something unheard of by passing the mantle of protagonist down from father to son. He will no longer write about spymaster Jack Ryan, made famous in the ...

Pros: Nice pace, realistic, likable characters
Cons: Abrupt ending

I have to admit that I haven't read a Tom Clancy novel in a while but have always enjoyed his books. Knowing that I like the books, my husband borrowed The Teeth of the Tiger from a co-worker and I'm glad he did. The book starts out with ...

Pros: entertaining, interesting, good story.
Cons: A little long, peaked in the wrong part of the book.

The Teeth Of The Tiger by Tom Clancy Published on August 11, 2003 by Putnam Pub Group 431 page hardcover $17.61 ISBN: 039915079X I have been a Tom Clancy fan for a long time and usually find his writing to be entertaining and powerful. ...

Pros: Bad guys get killed
Cons: There's very little of interest in the way of seeing them meet their ends

Tom Clancy burst onto the thriller scene over twenty years ago and, like John LeCarre, virtually invented a literary genre on his own—for LeCarre, the angst-filled spy thriller, for Clancy, the “techno-thriller”. That ground-breaking novel was The ...

Pros: If you abandon critical thought, you may be temporarily diverted by this mindless thriller.
Cons: Formulaic, poorly researched, repetitive, sloppy, annoying, cliched... (running out of pejoratives). Oh, wait... add "hackneyed"

Among the lesser-appreciated risks of travel is that of running out of palatable reading material. While this situation may not rank up there with lost luggage, food poisoning, or having your flight re-routed through Fairbanks, it's still an annoyance. ...

Pros: Well-written: Introduces new characters – good and bad – in global, asymmetrical conflict.
Cons: Too short and open-ended for some traditional Clancy fans. Too assertive for all Clancy haters.

BACKGROUND From his first published book (The Hunt for Red October, - 1984) to his most recent major work (Red Rabbit - 2002) Tom Clancy has – for the most part – focused his attention on the threat posed to the free world by hostile natio ...

Pros: Characters. Technology. Details.
Cons: Abrupt ending. One nagging question.

Tom Clancy's last novel, Red Rabbit, was a disappointment by his own high standards. In The Teeth of the Tiger, Clancy reverts to what originally made him so popular, and in doing so, he finds his writing groove once again. The Plot...

Pros: Good premise, good foundation for future stories
Cons: First 200 pages are tedious; poorly defined characters

This review includes some plot spoilers I don’t know what it is, but I don’t enjoy Tom Clancy half as much as I used to. The Bear and the Dragon was a joke, a rehash of Debt of Honor, full of foul language and a deus ex ...

Pros: It's shorter and better than Red Rabbit
Cons: Can't touch Red October or Cardinal of Kremlin for suspense.

I've joked that Tom Clancy seems to be paid by the word, judging from the bloated length of his recent work. When I noticed that his latest book is shorter (at 431 pages), I quipped that he must have finally hired an editor. I had high hopes that he would ...

Pros: Clancy is back with best novel since Rainbow Six.
Cons: First book of a series. Inconclusive ending.

Will the real Tom Clancy please stand up? At long last, after the marginally convincing BEAR AND ...

Pros: The byline is Tom Clancy...
Cons: It does not read like Clancy

This latest book by Tom Clancy takes everything he has written and puts it on top of its head. It is ...

Pros: A great beginning and middle of the novel
Cons: WHERE IS THE ENDING? WHERE IS THE CONCLUSION? WHERE IS THE CLOSURE?

In the past, Clancy has had the ability to grab your attention from the beginning, and before you know it, you have read over 300 pages in his book. And being Clancy, you always have the knowledge that there are going to be at least about 300 pages (or mo ...

Pros: Interesting premises. Seems knowledgeable about intelligence gathering procedures.
Cons: Glamorizes lawlessness. Shallow characters. Predictable straight-line plot. Detached from reality. Unresolved ending.

Tom Clancy always has an intriguing premise for his novels. In The Teeth of the Tiger there are two: 1) A Mideast terror organization wheels and deals with a Colombian drug cartel, trading its expertise in how to skirt Europe's security measures ...