'I Try to Portray Reality'

Newsweek, August, 2003 by Brian Braiker

Tom Clancy's fans believe his political plots are visionary. Long before the threat of a dirty bomb taunted the public imagination, the best-selling author had written "The Sum of All Fears," about Palestinian radicals who detonate a nuclear explosive at the Super Bowl. Even more eerily prescient was his 1994 novel "Debt of Honor," in which a suicidal pilot crashes a jumbo jet into the Capitol.

Clancy's new novel--released this week--seems just as tuned in to the current zeitgeist. "The Teeth of the Tiger" is premised upon an argument for pre-emptive action by a super-secret spy group--set up with the president's blessing--outside the federal budget and away from prying Congressional eyes. As much a defense of the recent American war on Iraq as a precept for fighting...

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