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The story is based on the highly improbable premise that America’s secret new spy agency will employ, purely by coincidence, Jack Ryan’s son and two of his cousins. Little effort is made in the development of these characters and some of the dialogue between them is excruciatingly, painfully, embarrassingly bad with…
“You packin?”
“Bet your bippy bro. You?”
“Hang a big roger on that.”
…typical of the sort of rubbish perpetrated in this book.
The plot is one of Islamic terrorists attacking America and an unofficial new agency which executes them without reference to judge or jury. This is far from ambitious compared with Clancy’s earlier work and the entire novel comes across as being a very transparent attempt to articulate and justify his own, obviously extreme, ideas. The action scenes are neither original nor particularly exciting and the story frequently becomes lost in meaningless descriptions of car journeys and other unnecessary digressions.
As a former Clancy fan I take no pleasure in dismissing this book as dull, repetitive flag waving rubbish. Much the same can be said of Clancy’s last few books such as Red Rabbit, The Bear and the Dragon and Rainbow Six and it is amazing to think how far this author has declined from his peak with classics like Red Storm Rising and The Cardinal of the Kremlin.
This is a truly dreadful book. It is thinner than many of Clancy's previous offerings (no bad thing in itself) but even then it is too long for the material it contains. Clancy seems to have come up with one basic idea and stretched it out over 400 pages - and then the book just ends leaving a feeling of "Is that it?". I am sure that there will be a sequel (maybe there already is but I couldn't be bothered to find out) and it will carry on the story, but in Clancy's early days the plot of The Teeth Of The Tiger would have fitted into the first 20% of one of his books and then the story would have taken off from there.
Of course a good book can have a slow plot development, but the writing has to be good to sustain it. And here it isn't. Outrageous coincidences, a ponderous and predictable plot and above all a set of stereotyped characters who spend ages (or at least it felt like it to this reader)worrying about their consciences only for the good old "let's kick ass" attitude to suface and sweep away all of the doubts. We also get treated to a quick culinary tour of major European cities (was the book an excuse for a tax deductable holiday in Europe I wonder?) but, as before, Clancy still hasn't managed to understand the rituals of the British pub, so even that jars.
But above everything is the fact that this book is deadly dull and boring. Rather than read it do something more exiting - like watching paint dry.
This novel is a good story well told. Read more
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