Just finished this novel and somehow I was not able to let go of it. I was done with it in less than 36 hours. Truly I am a Clancy fan. Novel summary below is courtesy of wikipedia.
Prior to this I have read Without Remorse and The Cardinal of the Kremlin.
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.
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 Jack Ryan, The Campus keeps itself funded by playing the stock market which allows them to prevent Congress from overseeing them and thereby allowing them to kill targets without legal constraints.
The Campus sends out a strike team that utilizes succinylcholine to execute terrorists. It's all training until a group of Islamic fundamentalists cross 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 the terrorists.
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 organization
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