Jack Ryan · Book 12

The Teeth of the Tiger

by Tom Clancy

Published
11 August 2003
Pages
431
ISBN-13
9780399150791
Type
novel

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Cover of The Teeth of the Tiger

About this book

The Teeth of the Tiger (2003) closes out Tom Clancy's run of twelve solo Jack Ryan novels -- after this one, the universe splits into a rotating slate of continuation authors. It runs 431 pages and introduces the next generation of the Ryan story that the following books would carry forward.

Its place in Jack Ryan

The Teeth of the Tiger is book 12 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows Red Rabbit. It is followed by Dead or Alive. See the full Jack Ryan reading order.

Jack Ryan starts the series as a CIA analyst who stumbles into a Soviet submarine defection and rises, book by book, to national security adviser and eventually President of the United States — one of the most sustained "ordinary competent man in extraordinary circumstances" arcs in thriller fiction. Tom Clancy built his name on techno-thriller density: real weapons systems, real geopolitics, and enough procedural detail about submarines, fighter jets and intelligence tradecraft that the books doubled as…

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