Life of Pi killing and eating Pi, but is immediately killed by Richard Parker. Some time later, Pi's boat comes ashore on a floating island network of algae and inhabited by hundreds of thousands of meerkats. Soon, Pi and Richard Parker regain strength, but the boy's discovery of the carnivorous nature of the island's plant life forces him to return to the ocean. Two hundred and twenty-seven days after the ship's sinking, the lifeboat washes onto a beach in Mexico, after which Richard Parker disappears into the nearby jungle without looking back, leaving Pi heartbroken at the abrupt farewell. The third part of
The Teeth of the Tiger Like "Red Rabbit", Clancy's "The Teeth of the Tiger" was poorly received by critics and reviews for "The Teeth of the Tiger" were "tepid at best." "The Washington Post" described it as a "bloated, boring, silly novel" with "inane dialogue, gossamer characterizations, endless repetition and bumper-sticker politics." The "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" panned it as well, saying that the most positive thing about the book was that it was "mercifully briefer than its chronological predecessor in the Jack Ryan series.". The "San Antonio Express-News" described the novel as "an acceptable thriller" that is "an obvious attempt to reinvent the franchise [Clancy]