: The Teeth of the Tiger
Author: Tom Clancy
I haven’t read much Clancy as I haven’t been a fan of his fragmented writing style, but this was a good book. It’s one scenario of what clandestine operation the U.S. might do in response to 9-11 (the “teeth” of the “tiger”). There’s a super-secret government organization that’s actually privately funded so there’s no connection to the government at all. But this organization has penetrated all levels of the government and thus has full access to all intelligence from all other agencies. Using this info, this organization will, essentially, kill terrorists before they can strike. Brutal and cold, but realistic. How else do you stop sucide bombers? The book devotes too much time to “debate” over the morality of this as though Clancy were defending the idea himself through his characters instead of getting on with the story, and in the end the story’s thin as everything happens the way we’d expect (and desire, i.e. the terrorists are stopped). One interesting thing is that this book is set in Clancy’s world and many of the characters are descendants of familiar Clancy characters (such as Jack Ryan’s son). I haven’t read enough Clancy to know if he always does this, but I found it interesting. A good read.
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