There is no conspiracy

Tom Clancy has a new book, Teeth of the Tiger, out. It’s not a very good book, IMO, although it’s better than his last two pieces of crap, err, novels. However, I notice that Amazon doesn’t have any user reviews! This, for a book whose current sales rank is now 4, and which has been shipping since 8/11 or so. I find that suspicious. Given how many readers (if, perhaps, no longer fans) Clancy has, one would expect a torrent of reviews on such a hot-selling book, but there are none. That makes me wonder why there aren’t any reviews, and none of the possible answers (incompetence, systems failure, reviewer latency, desire to keep sales up by failing to post bad reviews) are good for Amazon.
Update: BN.com does have reviews listed on their page for the book. Of course, BN also has reviews for John Grisham’s latest, as yet unreleased, book, so maybe they aren’t the most reliable source. I just sent email to Amazon to ask where the reviews were for Clancy’s book; we’ll see what they say.
Update: I got a return email from Amazon’s “community service” team. They claim that the review problem was a temporary technical glitch; indeed, there are now 219 reviews averaging 3 stars. (The number of reviews hasn’t changed since late Thursday, which seems a little unusual.)