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3.0 out of 5 stars
Far from the finest book to appear under the Clancy name,
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This review is from: Acts of War (Tom Clancys Op Centre) (Paperback)
It's worth noting at the start that the Op-Center series was conceived (and probably overseen) by Tom Clancy, but not written entirely (if at all) by him. That said, whoever actually wrote 'Acts of War' does a reasonable impression of Clancy's usual military-political intrigue, but fails to achieve Clancy's crisp prose or well paced plotting.Kurdish rebels seeking to destabilize the Middle East is the international issue du jour in this book, the third in the series featuring the invented (and wishful) highly flexible supra-intelligence-agency 'Op-Center'. Ham fisted exposition at the start coupled with continuity errors ('sadly we can't get infrared photos from that satellite. Oh, here are the infrared photos from that satellite.') made the first third of the book a slog. The overall effect, as the team in Turkey and in Washington seek to discover and diffuse an ever mounting crisis, is clumsy and not Clancy. Once the book finally gets interesting - the descriptions of the crack military team planning and leaping into action are far and away the smoothest and most engaging part of the book - it undercuts itself with a tacked on and awfully exposited ending. Middle of the stack beach reading. |
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Acts of War (Tom Clancys Op Centre) by Tom Clancy (Paperback - March 10, 1997)
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