The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy

Now starting Clancy's The Teeth of the Tiger, with some apprehension as described above, but... it's still Clancy. Already sucked me right in. I seem to recall reading somewhere that Clancy, in a moment of financial weakness long before he had any idea his books would be so successful, signed some dreadful film-deal contract with Paramount, and has lived to vehemently regret it. I've only seen a couple-few of the films based on his books and boy did they suck. I haven't seen The Sum of All Fears and have no desire to. The trailers alone were so sickeningly twisted from what Clancy wrote that I could tell it was a complete hack job. I've since read confirmation from reviews on the net. Gunfolk dig Clancy. He may not be entirely one of us but he damn sure ain't one of them.

284 - Wednesday, 3 September 2003:

Finished The Teeth of the Tiger and there will obviously be more in this line. This is different from Clancy's usual highly-trained, duly-constituted-hero stuff... and I like it. Must be my general anti-government bent. I also liked Without Remorse, the one with John Clark's origin, for much the same reasons. Looking forward to the next installment.

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