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Book Review: Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy

Published 2003 Finished Reading: 30Apr06

Tom Clancy’s newest book has moved ahead some into the future, as Jack Ryan Jr., the son of the principle character of most of Clancy’s books, is looking to get a job following college, settling in on an ultra secret ‘black ops’ organization that works outside of the scope of the CIA and FBI while using the information they get to go after terrorists who are outside of the scope of they typical laws that govern crime.

An attack on American soil leads Jack Jr. into the deep elements of the spy game much quicker than anticipated, as this new unknown intelligence agency strikes back at the heart of the terrorist organization who dared spill the blood of innocent civilians right here, at home.

There are other characters in the book that tie in with previous characters from other books also. The book is a little slow to take off and never quite catches up. Clancy is right at home with the battlefield, where divisions of men line up and the technological descriptions and the ballet of warcraft, and although this isn’t a bad book by any means, it doesn’t quite live up to the expectations you are used to from reading his previous works. The real peculiar part of the book is the ending, where it seems almost as though it’s a To Be Continued… sort of thing, I can’t tell if the book is really supposed to be over or if Clancy is leading into his next literary work, or if it is just a bad ending.

Either way, without an ending, the book is just sort of bland at the end, without the usual definitive slam dunk that I’ve been used to when reading Clancy novels. I was a little disappointed overall with the book.

Rating: **1/2

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