America's most proficient covert operations team, hand-picked for its intelligence, analysis, and crisis-management skills, has had many a tough situation thrown at it. Years ago, before North Korea made its belligerent intentions known to the world, Op-Center's first mission was to thwart a crisis on the Korean peninsula. Since then, it has dealt with the machinations of Russian hard-liners, prevented the resurgence of age-old hatred in Germany, gone underground to prevent Kurdish terrorists from destabilizing the Middle East, subjugated the tensions of rebellious Basques, rescued the entire United Nations from mercenaries, and prevented an all-out war between India and Pakistan. Is it up to the challenge of preventing the next war? Absolutely.
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"Ok I am bias with this one. This was written by a friend of mine and he actually used my name as a character for this book."
— Andrew (5 out of 5 stars)
" This was a good storyline, but Clancy didn't write it, and there is a difference in the writing style. I was somewhat disappointed. "
— Phillip, 1/30/2013" Mindless read but worth the finish if you start. "
— Garrett, 7/21/2012" 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, 7/12/2012" 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, 6/4/2012" Nukes, Smokey the Koala, and espionage what's not to like? "
— Murray, 2/27/2011" Coffey is pulled from an international conference in Australia to help them find some missing radioactive materials. "
— Joyce, 1/8/2011" 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, 2/2/2008Jeff 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.
Tom 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.
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.