There was a time when every other August a Tom Clancy novel would appear on the bookshelves to be purchased sight unseen. After the last two novels, Red Rabbit and Teeth of the Tiger, those days are past. Clancy's novels have become so trite and predictable as to become almost unreadable. His jingoistic style has degraded to the point where it's almost comical. There are moments in Teeth of the Tiger that harken back to the Clancy of old, his description of the terrorist group's Mexican/American border crossing showed the depth and texture that used to be the hallmark of a Clancy novel, unfortunately those moments are few in this "mailed in" effort.How disappointing.