The fourth volume in the highly popular new series of high-tech thrillers created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. Syrian terrorists have attacked a dam inside the borders of Turkey, threatening the water supply of their very homeland. It is not insanity, but the first step in a deceptively simple plan: force all-out war in the Middle East. This will draw elite troops out of the capital of Damascus, leaving the Syrian president unprotected -- and an easy target for assassination. What the terrorists don't know is that a new Regional Op-Centre is now on-line in Greece. A mobile version of the permanent crisis management facility, the ROC is a cutting-edge surveillance and information mecca. And its team can see exactly what the Syrian rebels are trying to do. But the terrorists are more resourceful than anyone thinks. They also have ways of obtaining classified information. And the Regional Op-Centre -- the United States' newest toy -- is a prize not to be passed up!
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Tom Clancy's most recent novel is the No 1 bestseller Debt of Honour. He lives in Maryland, USA. Steve Pieczenik's bestselling psycho-political thrillers include The Mind Palace, Blood Heat and Maximum Vigilance. He also served as principal hostage negotiator and international crisis manager while Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance and James Baker.
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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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