Product Description

The old rules no longer apply - anybody with a spare AK47 or a knowledge of kitchen chemistry can become a player. In a nondescript office building in suburban Maryland, 'The Campus', set up with the knowledge of President John Patrick Ryan identifies and locates terrorist threats - then deals with them, in whatever manner is necessary. It's an organisation always on the lookout for new recruits - men like Jack Ryan Jr, the President's son. Filled with the exceptional realism and cutting-edge authenticity that are his hallmarks, this is Clancy at his best - and there is none better.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52370 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 640 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Teeth of the Tiger answers, vigourously, the question of what a Tom Clancy thriller would look like in the post-9/11 era. A new generation of the Ryan family takes the field, operating with considerably more ruthlessness and fewer constraints against Islamic fundamentalist killers and the money men who fund them. Jack Ryan's nephews, a Marine and an FBI man, are the hit men and his son the controlling intelligence behind their choice of targets, as revenge is taken for a set of vicious assaults on American civilians. There is a lot of background knowledge at work here--Clancy knows his stuff when it comes to people-smuggling and financial transfers--and a certain understanding of what makes both kinds of killer tick. Both religion and the idea of America are things for which men are prepared to kill and die--Clancy is at times scarily certain politics give him insight into the modern world. You read him for the occasional flurries of exciting action, but he also has something interesting to tell us about the frame of mind of his more devoted fans. --Roz Kaveney

About the Author
Tom Clancy lives in Maryland. His books include THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, RAINBOW SIX, THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON and RED RABBIT, all of which have been international bestsellers.

Customer Reviews

A disappointing read!
I've read every Clancy novel and this has to be the worst he's written! There are obvious plot holes and the characters are poorly written. Anybody who's read Clancy, or any other spy novel, knows that you watch your target for a while before killing him. That way you get more leads on possible contacts. As I was reading this I was mentally screaming at the pages to tell the characters to slow down! The ending is very much an anti-cimax and you turn over the last page looking for an epilogue, when there isn't one.

Boring
I never dreamed Tom Clancy could produce such a load of rubbish.I imagine it was to try to seem 'with it'that his main charactors use 'BRO; every other word.
That Jack Ryan could oroduce a homicidal zombie son like this is enough to wipe out all the years spent with him
sorry BRO doubt I shall ever pick up a Clancy book again
PRINCE RAFAEL

Jack II
This novel is short on pages for a Clancy novel. And a fast read. But it looked as if he did not do the research he normally does for his books. He may have put this one out a little too fast. And when I read the last word of this novel...I was expecting to turn the page to continue. It is as if this is just the first half of the novel he intended. Now with all that said, I still enjoyed reading it.

In this book we have Jack Jr. and his two cousins joining an organization who's sole purpose is to eliminate known threats to the USA. The book starts with the recruitment of Jack's cousins, an FBI agent and an active U.S. Marine Corps Captain. And Jack Jr. comes knocking at this super secret agency's door looking for a job right out of college. They are then exposed to terrosit activity on home soil. The rest of the book follows our heros as they hunt down and assissnate those they know had a part in this terrorist act.