Search/Recent Changes
DBTropes
...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Teeth Of The Tiger

 Teeth Of The Tiger
type
TVTItem
 Teeth Of The Tiger
label
Teeth Of The Tiger
 Teeth Of The Tiger
page
TeethOfTheTiger
 Teeth Of The Tiger
comment
The Teeth of The Tiger is a Spy Fiction novel written by Tom Clancy, and is notable for being the last Jack Ryan novel he wrote by himself before Dead or Alive restarted the book series again.Set in a post-9/11 world, before Jack Ryan's term as President ended, he set up a covert intelligence agency to counter-act the CIA's failings and "identify, locate, and deal with terrorist threats" called The Campus, with the assistance of Gerald Hendley, who provided the front for the organization as a financial trading firm, while serving as The Campus' director.Meanwhile, a Mossad station chief is assassinated in Rome, catching the interest of The Campus. Later, they recruit Brian Caruso—a U.S Marine returning from Afghanistan, his brother Dominic—an FBI agent, and his cousin, Jack Ryan Jr—who discovers the Campus' operations at first. Sounds familiar?Preceded by The Bear and the Dragon (continuity-wise), Red Rabbit (release-wise). Followed by Dead or Alive.
 Teeth Of The Tiger
fetched
2023-10-21T04:44:07Z
 Teeth Of The Tiger
parsed
2023-10-21T04:44:07Z
 Teeth Of The Tiger
processingComment
Dropped link to PatriotGames: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Teeth Of The Tiger
processingComment
Dropped link to TheSumOfAllFears: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Teeth Of The Tiger
isPartOf
DBTropes
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_1ba17583
type
The Ghost
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_1ba17583
comment
The Ghost: Former President Jack Ryan, despite only being mentioned in the novel, is responsible for setting up the Campus via Gerald Hendley.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_1ba17583
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_1ba17583
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_1ba17583
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_1d18887f
type
Pay Evil unto Evil
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_1d18887f
comment
Pay Evil unto Evil: The main theme of the story.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_1d18887f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_1d18887f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_1d18887f
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_22cf536c
type
Chekhov's Gun
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_22cf536c
comment
Chekhov's Gun: The fact that the terrorists behind the Charlottesville Fashion Square massacre used credit cards to pay for their car fuel helps the Campus to track down one of the targets who supported the act.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_22cf536c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_22cf536c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_22cf536c
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_43a045de
type
Dropped a Bridge on Him
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_43a045de
comment
Dropped a Bridge on Him: Robby Jackson is said to have become president in his own right and then been assassinated by a member of the KKK. This happens between books and is only barely mentioned in passing. Some of the newer books have tried to make this more meaningful by having it be one of the primary motivations for Jack running for president again, but still...
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_43a045de
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_43a045de
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_43a045de
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_5313c266
type
Bookends
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_5313c266
comment
Book Ends: The book begins and ends in the same bathroom where the Rome Mossad station chief was killed, right down to having both of their wallets being stolen.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_5313c266
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_5313c266
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_5313c266
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_53c5f30e
type
Happy Ending Override
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_53c5f30e
comment
Happy Ending Override: At the end of The Bear and the Dragon, things seemed to be looking up for the world: Russia was celebrating its victory over China and seemed to be on the path to becoming a stable and prosperous democracy, the conspirators in the Chinese government responsible for the War in Siberia had been arrested, and peace in the middle-east had been achieved thanks to the Jerusalem Treaty (from The Sum of All Fears) and the defeat of the United Islamic Republic in Executive Orders. But to keep the novel feeling contemporary in a post-9/11 world, many of these events were undone. The Jerusalem Treaty fell apart, the 9/11 attacks had happened and America was at war in Afghanistan, Robby Jackson is dead, Jack Ryan is consumed with grief over his passing, and the current American President is Ed Kealty (a corrupt and unpopular career politician). Then in later novels we learn that the Chinese Communist Party has re-established control over the country, while Russia is once against a dictatorship ruled by a Vladimir Putin expy.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_53c5f30e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_53c5f30e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_53c5f30e
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_55940b68
type
Doorstopper
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_55940b68
comment
Doorstopper: Surprisingly averted! The novel clocks in at 480 pages, making it Clancy's shortest novel (behind The Hunt for Red October's 387 pages.)
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_55940b68
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_55940b68
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_55940b68
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_55c2ae34
type
Sequel Gap
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_55c2ae34
comment
Cliffhanger: The book ends on one. It did get picked up about seven years later, though.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_55c2ae34
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_55c2ae34
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_55c2ae34
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_7464705c
type
Arc Words
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_7464705c
comment
Arc Words: "Tiger" comes up often, down to the title and the Tag Line.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_7464705c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_7464705c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_7464705c
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_8391b1c7
type
Artistic License – Law
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_8391b1c7
comment
Artistic License – Law: The book has the protagonists running a privately funded assassination squad against terrorism suspects. This includes a stack of fill-form presidential pardons pre-signed by former President Jack Ryan (naturally throwing in a contrast with the Fox News Liberal administration that succeeded him). Besides the dubious legality of such a concept in the first place, this does absolutely nothing for an operator arrested by a foreign government or even by a US state government: the President can only pardon federal offenses.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_8391b1c7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_8391b1c7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_8391b1c7
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_90b75a89
type
Speed Demon
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_90b75a89
comment
Speed Demon: Dominic Caruso has earned the nickname "Enzo" (after Enzo Ferrari, the race car driver and engineer who founded the Ferrari automobile company) by his brother because Dominic has a lead foot. Indeed, the book mentions that he sometimes gets pulled over for speeding, but the local cops let him off when he flashes his FBI credentials.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_90b75a89
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_90b75a89
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_90b75a89
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_970c790a
type
Big Bad
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_970c790a
comment
Big Bad: The Emir (the book's stand-in for Osama Bin Laden) is set up to be one.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_970c790a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_970c790a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_970c790a
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_9dab0a6e
type
Continuity Nod
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_9dab0a6e
comment
Continuity Nod: The events of Patriot Games are referred to by Jack Ryan Jr. several times. The Jerusalem Treaty is mentioned to have fallen apart by the novel's time, thus allowing the plot to happen.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_9dab0a6e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_9dab0a6e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_9dab0a6e
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_b2280b66
type
Retcon
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_b2280b66
comment
Retcon: This book marked the point at which Clancy, in an effort to keep up with the changing shape of politics, especially in the wake of 9/11, changed or threw out a lot of events that had been established in previous Ryanverse novels. Among other things, Robby Jackson was killed off, as detailed in the Dropped a Bridge on Him entry, and by a series of strange events, Ed Kealty - whose political career had supposedly been destroyed in Executive Orders - somehow ended up becoming President in his stead. These radical changes were, and are, highly controversial among fans.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_b2280b66
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_b2280b66
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_b2280b66
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_c3585f4a
type
Boom, Headshot!
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_c3585f4a
comment
Boom, Headshot!: Brian Caruso does it to one of the terrorists at the Charlottesville Fashion Square massacre.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_c3585f4a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_c3585f4a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_c3585f4a
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_d9c4365c
type
Reset Button
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_d9c4365c
comment
Reset Button: This appears to have been pushed in this one, along with Dead or Alive (much more obviously so in the latter case, since, in order to be able to incorporate 9/11 and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars into his plot, Clancy pretty much had to do away with the events of Executive Orders. This also applies to the US/Russian relationship.)
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_d9c4365c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_d9c4365c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_d9c4365c
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_e3d06d0c
type
Bash Brothers
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_e3d06d0c
comment
Bash Brothers: A rather literal example. The Caruso brothers are twin brothers who end up working for the campus side-by-side. Dominic, who is an FBI agent, is the more analytical of the two. While Brian, a United States Force Recon Marine, is a battle-hardened combat vet.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_e3d06d0c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_e3d06d0c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_e3d06d0c
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_eb06cc52
type
Elite Agents Above the Law
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_eb06cc52
comment
Elite Agents Above the Law: The Campus.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_eb06cc52
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_eb06cc52
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_eb06cc52
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_eda30d58
type
0% Approval Rating
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_eda30d58
comment
0% Approval Rating: Ed Kealty's administration as President is heavily implied to suffer from this.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_eda30d58
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_eda30d58
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_eda30d58
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_f142296a
type
"Get Out of Jail Free" Card
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_f142296a
comment
"Get Out of Jail Free" Card: Taken up to 11 with the fill-form pre-signed presidential pardons for The Campus' operatives. The dubious legality of the concept is even lampshaded by the man in charge.
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_f142296a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_f142296a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_f142296a
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_name
type
ItemName
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_name
comment
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_name
featureApplicability
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_name
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teeth Of The Tiger
hasFeature
Teeth Of The Tiger / int_name
 Teeth Of The Tiger / int_name
itemName
Teeth Of The Tiger

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

(none found)