The Teeth of the Tiger
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| Author | Tom Clancy |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Ryanverse |
| Genre(s) | Thriller novel |
| Publisher | Putnam |
| Released | 1 August 2003 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 480 pp (hardback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-399-15079-X (hardback edition) |
| Preceded by | The Bear and the Dragon |
| Followed by | tba |
The Teeth of the Tiger is a 2003 techno-thriller novel by Tom Clancy. It is about an intelligence agency, called Hendley Associates, which is "off the books" and thus freed from the shackles of Congressional oversight. This agency was set up by Jack Ryan when he was President. It funds its operations by intercepting communications between the CIA and the NSA, and using the information gained to make money on the stock market.
[edit] Plot summary
The novel begins with the assassination of a Mossad agent in Rome. Jack Ryan Jr., the son of former President Jack Ryan soon finds himself confronting the world of international terrorism in the post-9/11 world along with his twin cousins. The Campus, the nickname for Hendley Associates, is an "off the books" intelligence agency created by the former president.
The Campus sends out a strike team that utilizes succinylcholine to murder suspected terrorists. It begins with their training until a group of Muslim extremists crosses the U.S.-Mexico border with a crate of sub-machine guns and attacks suburban malls across the nation. Then the team goes across Europe killing Muslim extremists.
[edit] Characters in "The Teeth of the Tiger"
- Jack [Shortstop] Ryan Jr – protagonist, son of Jack Ryan Sr.
- Dominic "Enzo" Caruso – FBI agent brother in "the Campus"
- Brian "Aldo" Caruso – US Marine brother in "the Campus"
- Sally [Shadow] Ryan – Jack Ryan Sr's daughter
- Katie [Sandbox] Ryan – Jack Ryan Sr's daughter, still in school
- Gerry Hendley – former senator and friend of Jack Ryan Sr
- Mohammed – one of key leaders in The Emir's organisation
[edit] Works Leading Up to: The Teeth of the Tiger
- Clear and Present Danger — at the very end of this novel, Clancy gives a name to the sitting President. Previously, the President had appeared in the novels but had remained unnamed, so that the reader could imagine him as an actual US President (presumably Reagan or Bush). Starting with this book, Clancy creates a string of fictitious presidents.
- Sum of All Fears — Israel cedes Jerusalem to the Vatican and Saudi Arabia, which makes Jerusalem a UN-policed protectorate. Residents of Jerusalem can choose between either Vatican, Saudi or Israeli judicial law. Denver is devastated by a terrorist nuclear explosion.
- Debt of Honor — after crippling the US economy, Japan invades and retakes the Marianas Islands; the US and Russia destroy all of their nuclear missiles; the US and Japan fight a brief war, which the Japanese lose; Japan becomes a nuclear power; a Japanese terrorist and proponent of the war crashes a 747 into the US Capitol during Ryan's confirmation hearing for the Vice Presidency, killing most of the House and Senate, the President, all nine Supreme Court justices, the senior military establishment (including the JCS), and most of the Cabinet; Ryan is left in charge of a decimated government.
- Executive Orders — Saddam Hussein is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards; Iran and Iraq merge to form the United Islamic Republic; the UIR launches a biological attack on the US using the Ebola virus; the US launches the Second Gulf War against the UIR and defeats them; the Ayatollah is killed in a smart-bomb attack by the US.
- The Bear and the Dragon — Russia is admitted to NATO; China and Russia fight a major war, in which the US intervenes on their NATO ally's side.
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