The Teeth of the Tiger - Tom Clancy > Reviews

Advantages: A return to form for Clancy
Disadvantages: Still not as good as some of his earlier novels

...recent novels, “The Bear and the Dragon” and “Red Rabbit” where I slated him for basically confusing length with quality and trading on his past reputation for writing tight, taut, well constructed thrillers such as “Clear and Present Danger” and “The Hunt for Red October”. His most recent offering to hit the bookshelves in paperback, “The Teeth of the Tiger”, while still not up to the quality of his earlier novels, is at least a welcome return to ... Read review

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

...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 return to the form he displayed in Red October and Clear & Present Danger. Instead, this novel felt a lot like the movie "Dumb and Dumberer". Let me explain. Dumb and Dumberer was a sequel to the highly successful Dumb ... Read review

Advantages: It's a new path for Clancy but still retaining names you'll know if you've read a lot of Clancy
Disadvantages: Its the start of a new series I think!

The Teeth of the Tiger takes regular Clancy readers away from from what we've come to consider as the Norm. For those who've never read Clancy before - this could be a place to start - as I do think that this is going to be a new series from the man. For those who are avid Clancy fans (like myself) it is a bit confusing at first. I'd bought TTOTT along with Red Rabbit and started reading TTOTT before thinking to myself - Damn I've missed a whole ... Read review

Advantages: The author
Disadvantages: Not the best Clancy novel I have read

...this book to help relieve the boredom of a flight to Europe. I had previously read and enjoyed previous Clancy novels. I think that following the success of previous books the author would have his work cut out to match them. I normally find his books difficult to put down but this was different. My first impression of the book was that it was long so was hoping for an action fuelled epic. How wrong could I be? The book spent far too much time ... Read review

Advantages: Clancy starting to return to form
Disadvantages: Obviously the start of a new series, laying out future plots

...to Tom Clancy's top form. The book is obviously the start of a new series involving Jack Ryan Jnr. It is not compelling reading and sometimes it is confusing, He uses proper names and nicknames for some characters leaving trying to work out which character He is talking about. The story itself is good but not brilliant and does not build up to a big ending like Clancy's other book. I am looking forward the the next book in the series which I hope ... Read review