The Teeth of the Tiger - Tom Clancy

~ ~ I wrote two particularly scathing reviews of a couple of author Tom Clancy’s 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 form for the American master storyteller who invariably tops the best seller lists with almost everything he pens. ~ ~ In Teeth of ...  Read the complete review

I got my first taste of Tom Clancy this time about 11 years ago when a friend shoved a copy of The Sum of all Fears in my direction. I hardly slept until I had got through all 900+ pages. I was clearly hooked and sought out all of his other novels. Those of you who think you are unfamiliar with Clancy will probably have seen one of the films that were made of his scribblings; The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games are the most famous efforts and Clear and Present Danger and the aforementioned Sum of all Fears have also been committed to celluloid. The master of the techno thriller, he is one of the few authors who I will buy in hard back, no matter the ...  Read the complete review