It's a mission that only Striker - the military arm of Op-Center - can handle: capture an Islamic cleric who is stirring up a rebellion against the Indian government. But when the border between India and Pakistan erupts, the Striker team gets caught in the crossfire. Now America's most proficient covert team is trapped in a full-fledged war. Their fate rests in the hands of a devious NSA double agent whose own agenda is unknown - a man who could just as easily sell them out as set them free. This book is an implicit profile of America's defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology, seen through the eyes of fictional two-star General Mike Rodgers. Like all books under Clancy's imprint, technical details are the order of the day.
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"Read this forever ago, like 10 years. Awesome read, my first Clancy book. Loved the characters and the action. Good series."
— Matthew (4 out of 5 stars)
" WOOT WOOT! Awesome book, even better ending. Won't ruin it though but its one of the best consirpacy novels ever! "
— Chris, 2/18/2014" I am a big fan of Tom Clancy's books, it took me about a week and a half to finish this book, and I gotta say it had very interesting characters and computer technology. This is book 1 in the Op-Center series, Op-Center is a Crisis-management team and the director is Paul Hood. The operatives of Op-Center investigate a growing crisis in North Korea and with the help of some of his allies, Paul Hood is the only one who can prevent World War III. "
— Corey, 2/9/2014" read to page 12 stopped, never picked it up again. "
— Shellie, 2/8/2014" Still early in my reading. No conclusions yet other than it's a military strategic work of fiction. "
— Wes, 2/8/2014" I got totally bored in the first 100 pages...so I stopped reading it...( and I almost never do that...) enough said "
— Camille, 2/6/2014" I liked it. It was published just before the Tokyo subway gas attacks. In this work, Clancy creates a similar attack in Korea. He adeptly described those chemicals of war, tabun and sarin (the one used in Tokyo). Aside from the location and some details, the similarities were shocking. "
— Gerald, 1/21/2014" Great on the suspence, with a strong line up of charaters. "
— Paul, 1/21/2014" Read this book after watching the tv movie. Surprised the plot of the movie did not follow the plot of the book. "
— Mainrun, 1/20/2014" Op-center and striker force stop a war in Korea. "
— Joyce, 1/7/2014" Not actually written by Tom Clancy, but not bad. Not great mind you, and kind of forgettable, but a solid read. 3 stars. "
— Evan, 1/2/2014" Op-Center, I thought, is a decent novel but I found it was hard to finish and not something that catches your interest and makes you want to continue reading. I will continue to explore the others in the series to see what happens. "
— Dave, 1/2/2014" Not the greatest. "
— Drew, 12/29/2013" Not Clancy's best work but it was worth the read. "
— Farrell, 12/22/2013" Pretty good. Nice action a bit of suspense and some drama I liked it "
— Peter, 12/15/2013" As I recall, this was the best of the ones I read. A quick easy read with enough interest to want to keep reading. Yeah, but not Clancy. "
— Robert, 12/7/2013" Listened to book tape. Not a favorite in any way. "
— Lynne, 2/14/2013" Overdone. "
— William, 2/5/2013" I enjoyed this book on tape. "
— Ralph, 1/25/2013" Read during the Army years "
— Jim, 1/20/2013" It is fun to get into a new Tom Clancy series. "
— Ayelet, 7/9/2012" Pretty good, not one of my favorites. "
— doug, 3/31/2012" I think this book is a okay book. I find it very difficult to understand and I should've read a book in my learning level of reading "
— Austin, 12/20/2011" This is a book where you somehow know the ending, but not how it comes about. I labored through the book in order to see how it ended. It seemed to be written for a movie or sit com. "
— Ron, 9/24/2011" Book club choice, which I agreed to out of deference to The Hunt for Red October, a fave movie, by the same author. It takes two pages to describe a missile or an airplane (zzzz); difficult to keep track of which characters were from the North and South. "
— Susan, 8/29/2011" Full of action. Needed a change of pace from the heavy emotional involvement of my previous book. Not that this a light hearted romp, but the action is the star, not the characters. "
— Lawrence, 4/22/2011" My first Tom Clancy book. Was a nice read and I recommend it to anyone who likes the genre (Politics/Military Thriller). "
— Miguel, 4/4/2011" I read this so long ago. But now going through my books and getting rid of some! "
— Fittytiff, 3/11/2011" The book is good overall. The plot is interesting and it is easy to visualize as the plot unfolds. Yet, there is something about the book that keeps us wanting more and that makes the book feel a little incomplete. "
— Ashwath, 1/31/2011" Coffey is pulled from an international conference in Australia to help them find some missing radioactive materials. "
— Nana, 7/17/2010" 3 of 5 stars for the audio book Sea of Fire by Tom Clancy/Jeff Rovin. An interesting story but not quite as good as other books in the series. The abridged version is very choppy. Short book but barely worth the time. "
— Jim, 6/14/2009" Mindless read but worth the finish if you start. "
— Garrett, 7/29/2008" My introduction to opcentre, i like the fact that the various books aren't complexly interwoven. Although doesn't contain as much action as balance of power, but still is a good read. "
— Abhishek, 2/2/2008Tom Clancy (1947–2013) was the author of numerous #1 New York Times bestselling novels, including The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Red Rabbit, Teeth of the Tiger, and Red Storm Rising. His nonfiction work includes Into the Storm: A Study in Command, Every Man a Tiger, and Battle Ready. Clancy was the co-founder of Red Storm Entertainment, a video game developing company responsible for the successful Rainbow Six series, Ghost Recon series, Splinter Cell series, and others.
Steve Pieczenik is the critically acclaimed author of psycho-political novels and the co-creator of the bestselling Tom Clancy’s Op-Center and Tom Clancy’s Net Force paperback series. He is a Harvard educated psychiatrist with an MD from Cornell University and a PhD in international relations from MIT. Working for the United States Department of State in four administrations, Pieczenik was instrumental in saving the lives of more than five hundred hostages—including during the TWA Flight 355 Croatian hijacking, the JRA Flight 472 hijacking, and the Hanafi Seige in Washington, DC—and has provided tactics and strategies for dealing with terrorists.
Jeff Rovin is the author of more than one hundred books, both fiction and nonfiction, under his own name, under various pseudonyms, or as a ghostwriter, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. He has written over a dozen Op-Center novels for the late Tom Clancy. Rovin has also written for television and has had numerous celebrity interviews published in magazines under his byline.
Michael Kramer is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, and recipient of a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award. He is also an actor and director in the Washington, DC, area, where he is active in the area’s theater scene and has appeared in productions at the Shakespeare Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and Theater J.