The Teeth of the Tiger

By: Tom Clancy

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

In a nondescript office building in suburban Maryland, the firm Hendley Associates does a profitable business in stocks, bonds, and international currencies, but its true mission is quite different: to identify and locate terrorist threats, and then deal with them, in whatever manner necessary. Established with the knowledge of President John Patrick Ryan, "the Campus" is always on the lookout for promising new talent, its recruiters scattered throughout the armed forces and government agencies - and three men are about to cross its radar.

The first is Dominic Caruso, a rookie FBI agent, barely a year out of Quantico, whose decisive actions resolve a particularly brutal kidnap/murder case. The second is Caruso's brother, Brian, a Marine captain just back from his first combat action in Afghanistan, and already a man to watch. And the third is their cousin...a young man named Jack Ryan, Jr.

Jack was raised on intrigue. As his father moved through the ranks of the CIA and then into the White House, Jack received a life course in the world and the way it operates from agents, statesmen, analysts, Secret Service men, and black ops specialists such as John Clark and Ding Chavez. He wants to put it all to work now, but when he knocks on the front door of "the Campus," he finds that nothing has prepared him for what he is about to encounter. For it is indeed a different world out there - and in here. And it is about to become far more dangerous.

©2003 Tom Clancy (P)2003 Books on Tape, Inc.

Filled with countless tired cliches

This was not up to Tom Clancy standards. In fact, I thought it had to be a ghost write. So many worn out cliches and just a poorly written book overall. Bummer because he was so good. Plus the lines like "a cat in a room full of rocking chairs" was just lame.

The enjoyment of the continued story of the Ryan Clan.

I liked the whole story. A very good story and telling of it. I’m looking at enjoying it more

weak dialogue

Having taken Jack Ryan, Sr. way beyond the realm of possibility, Clancy needed to come up with new characters, and the tie in to his kid and nephews gives the plot line some context.

Much of the book is made up of dialogue between the two cousins, who refer to each other alternatively by endearing Italian nicknames (Enzo?) and more often as "Bro" (!). Maybe real life conversations with twenty - something males also leaves something to be desired, but this is really hard to listen to.

Far fetched plots and unlikely outcomes are commonplace in this genre, and I can listen to some pretty silly stuff, so long as the writing itself is interesting to listen to. Here, the dialogue between the brothers, and Jr.'s references to "Dad" really made me grate my teeth.

Awesome

love the story line. huge fan of Clancy and the Ryan story line. love it.

Teeth of the Tiger

Good book and story line but Clancey misses the mark on some of the conversation amongst the characters. My husband was a Marine for 20 years and I can say for sure that I never met a Marine officer who spoke like the "Aldo" charachter. I also think there were several plot lines that started and went nowhere that distracted from the whole. All in all, if you like Clancey you'll like this book.

Narrator makes the difference

Love the series & stories.
But this narrator is a bit too "smooth " for these characters. Difficult to distinguish between characters. Ok, but not the same strength as others.

needs to be re- edited.

What did you like best about The Teeth of the Tiger? What did you like least?

This recording needs so work... There are a lot of repeats when switching chapters.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

yes

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Stephen Hoye?

James Earl Jones

Great story, needs edited

The editors need to listen better, the narrator frequently repeated sentences. Overall the story was worth hearing.

Editing

I'm not a fan of the way Hoyle narrated this book, though he is a good narrator. I have more issue with the way this was edited. There are numerous instances of repeated sections when a break occurs within the story. Either a sentence is repeated or in a couple of cases, several sentences or even a paragraph. This isn't the author's or the narrator's fault, but poor quality control and attention to detail on behalf of the editor. Find a new one.

Issues with recording

There are multuple times where lines are repeated in the recording. very noticeable and annoying.