The Cold War is over, and chaos is setting in. The new President of Russia is trying to create a new democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian Mafia, the right-wing nationalists, and even revanchist Czarists. Op-Center, the newly founded but highly successful crisis management team, begins a race against the clock and against the hardliners. Its members face an uphill battle. Their task is made more difficult by the discovery of a Russian counterpart to Op-Center - but this one is controlled by the same repressive hardliners. Two rival Op-Centers, virtual mirrors of each other, exist. But if this mirror cracks, it will be much more than seven years bad luck.
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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)
" Don't get me wrong... I like Tom Clancy. The unfortunate thing is that this book, like many of James Patterson novels, is outsourced to some writer who crafts the content, and clancy's name is used to sell it. The book is fast paced and full of intrigue, to be sure, but the constant drivel about one character's loss of his wife got very old. Also, keeping track of foreign characters in Korea, all with names like Sun, Lee and Cho can be hard to do when the action is moving quickly. "
— Scott, 2/17/2014" Read during the Army years "
— Jim, 2/6/2014" This book does not belong in my usual selection of books but as the story progresses, you can't help but read more. "
— Danielle, 2/5/2014" 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, 1/20/2014" I read this so long ago. But now going through my books and getting rid of some! "
— Fittytiff, 1/1/2014" It's a decent book with plenty of action and thrill...I just don't like Tom Clancy's style. He spends a lot of time telling you stuff that's really irrelevant; going on about what gauge and model the shotgun is and what type/brand of ammunition it holds and how many per clip, etc. I don't care about any of that information. It doesn't help the story progress and it certainly isn't fun to read unless you are a firearms aficionado...which I'm not. I respect the research that goes in to something like that but it just isn't necessary. The characters aren't necessarily the best either. They get the job done as far as plot progression and there are times that you find yourself rooting or booing them but on a whole, they just don't have the depth they need to be truly memorable. All in all, this book is OK. Good for reading on the bus during rush hour...not at home in your spare time. "
— Jeff, 12/8/2013" 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, 12/7/2013" It is fun to get into a new Tom Clancy series. "
— Ayelet, 7/25/2013" Not actually written by Tom Clancy, but not bad. Not great mind you, and kind of forgettable, but a solid read. 3 stars. "
— Evan, 3/19/2013" if you buy anything with Ops Center in the title you are a woeful fool and I will beat you with a stick when I next see you. "
— Jeffwatson, 12/19/2012" Not Clancy's best work but it was worth the read. "
— Farrell, 11/18/2012" I got totally bored in the first 100 pages...so I stopped reading it...( and I almost never do that...) enough said "
— Camille, 11/6/2012" 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, 2/18/2012" Pretty good. Nice action a bit of suspense and some drama I liked it "
— Peter, 7/17/2011" My first Tom Clancy book. Was a nice read and I recommend it to anyone who likes the genre (Politics/Military Thriller). "
— Miguel, 4/14/2011" Pretty good, not one of my favorites. "
— doug, 1/26/2011" I enjoyed this book on tape. "
— Ralph, 11/27/2010" Not the greatest. "
— Drew, 8/30/2010" 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, 11/4/2009" Op-center and striker force stop a war in Korea. "
— Joyce, 10/19/2009" Listened to book tape. Not a favorite in any way. "
— Lynne, 7/16/2009" not really superb with other co-authors and quite predictable "
— Jan, 12/20/2008" Still early in my reading. No conclusions yet other than it's a military strategic work of fiction. "
— Wes, 12/16/2008" read to page 12 stopped, never picked it up again. "
— Shellie, 10/28/2007" Sort of good story but Clancy tries to hard to impress us with how much Russian stuff he knows. Who cares the name of each street the heroes cross and the Russian words for so many thinkgs.. NYET! "
— Martha, 8/31/2007" this is a pretty stupid book. environmentalist terrorists are the enemies ans i'm pretty sure that's the most idiotic idea for bad guys ever. don't waste your time with this one "
— Wes, 7/25/2007Tom 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.