- Audio Cassette
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio (July 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671045598
- ISBN-13: 978-0671045593
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 10.4 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
The Op-Center series, created by Clancy and television producer Pieczenik, contains a large cast of characters that runs the U.S. government's elite crisis management team. This sixth and latest installment twists three seemingly unrelated plots into an engrossing, albeit contrived, story. A multinational terrorist group called the Peacekeepers, comprised of former U.N. soldiers, plans an attack on the U.N. during a private Saturday-night party in the Security Council chambers. Meanwhile, an angry Cambodian couple seeks revenge for a murder committed long ago. And Paul Hood, the center's recently retired head, is trying to piece everything together, but his troubled personal life only hinders his job. As the story lines converge, readers are taken deep inside the heart of America's defense, intelligence and crisis management networks. Stilted dialogue and unfortunate stabs at sentimentality, however, diminish the overall suspense. (July)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
Book Description
Driven by greed, a group of U.N. peacekeeping soldiers becomes involved in activities on the wrong side of the law. When their tour of duty ends, the mayhem begins. Calling themselves the "Keepers," the rogue soldiers -- outfitted with stolen U.N. arms and ammunition -- devise a shocking scheme to get the world's attention...
Meanwhile, Op-Center head Paul Hood has cleared out his desk. But his retirement is short-lived. Demanding one hundred million dollars in ransom, the Keepers have taken over the U.N. -- where ambassadors from ten nations have gathered for a gala function at which Hood's daughter will perform.
This time the Keepers have made it personal. And the Op-Center forces will strike with deadly vengeance...
A powerful profile of America's defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology, Tom Clancy's Op-Center is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- inspiring this and other gripping novels.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The first and best Op-Center I've ever read!,
By A Customer
This review is from: State of Siege: Op-Center 06 (Mass Market Paperback)
Clancy has done great in ditching those sometimes boring political plots and went into the action theme. The story is excellent and here is a summary: Paul Hood has retired as the Regional Op-Center director and now wishes to be with his wife and kids more. Sharon was a TV cooking show personality and his daughter Harleigh was an excellent violinist for her teenage age. His son, Alexander Hood (I hope I got the name right) enjoys video games and challenge. When Paul Hood finnaly retires, there is a sub-plot of emotional issues between him and Sharon but when they go to see Harleigh perform at a special diplomatic concert in New York for ambassadors and senators, greedy terrorists with a grandiose plan to get the world's attention and recieve a high ransom invade the United Nations building where the teenagers will perform and take the children and government people hostage. It is a race against time as hostages are killed on an hourly bases and while Secretary-General Chatterjee complains about giving diplomacy when Mike Rodgers wants to send in the Striker team. This has a good plot and lots of adventure that will "dazzle all readers!" (Me!)
1.0 out of 5 stars
Oh Dear,
By A Customer
This review is from: State of Siege: Op-Center 06 (Mass Market Paperback)
I am apparently in a minority of one but I am beginning to find Mr Clancy et al right-wing polemics a little alarming. From strong beginnings with Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger and particularly Sum of all Fears, his novels (including his mainstream as well as Op Center novels) have deteriorated in paranoid, simplistic visions of a Pax Americana who owes nothing to the rest of the world and is justified using any means to achieve any ends it sees fit.I am aware that none of these novels reflect 'reality', but their continued popularity may reveal dangerous tendencies on the part of their fans to believe this is the way the world could/should be. The US represents the greatest civilisation that the world has ever seen... if these books represent the views of its population, is in danger of going the same way as its predecessors
4.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining,
By Faye (Manila, Philippines) - See all my reviews
This review is from: State of Siege: Op-Center 06 (Mass Market Paperback)
An interesting and enjoyable book. I skipped most of the parts narrated from the hostage-takers' point of view and concentrated on the parts about Paul Hood and his family, which engaged me from the start and made me want to find out how the book ended. I didn't expect Nobel Prize-caliber literary quality, and I didn't get it. What I did get was enough entertainment to keep me reading. If I wanted a classic, I would have read Charles Dickens.
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