Tom Clancy's Op-Center : Games of State

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Summary: A Good Future
Review: This was the first Op-Center book and it looks like the Op-Center seris will be very good. It has great suspense, lots of action, and so forth. Some of the characters are very likeable. For instance Hood's son in the book has asthma just like I do. Whenever the book would get slightly boring they would go back to the asthma part which got me right back in it

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Summary: Excellent series
Review: If you've avoided buying this because you've been burnt in the past by Clancy and his cowriters, then give this a try. I have read every one in the Op Center series and find them to be excellent. You won't be disappointed with this selection. Try them all!

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Summary: Hell yeah!
Review: NO COMMENT! This book is just awesome, a MUST for all Clancy-fans. This is not just another uninspiring "Post-Cold War"-novel, but it is an edge-of-the-seat thriller, well written by one of the greatest masters of tension nowadays. Order it while you still can; the Millennium is nearing very quickly now!

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Summary: Great Idea!
Review: Op-Center is a great concept! Keep up the good work!

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Summary: Nothing to special
Review: Ok, i just got done reading this book about a week ago and really its not all that good. The suspence was pretty good but other then that its not much. If you want to read a good book by Tom Clancy I suggest hut For Red October or Rainbow Six

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Summary: What rousing premise! What horrible novel!
Review: I started off enjoying this novel and I thought that Op-Center was at one point a quality series. The only redeeming were the British spies. And I'm an American! I didn't like any of the Americans at all; they spent too much time talking about how right they were right and how they were the best. I also liked some of the Russians, especially Valya and Orlov. The plot is actually very interesting but dies in America worship. Some hard-liners want to return Russia to the days of the Soviet Union. This faction includes the gangster Shovich who is financing the effort, a Russian general Kosigan, the Interior Minister Dogin, and some other uninteresting characters. It seem that these guys are planning to manipulate Poland and the Ukraine to invite Russian troops in their borders to quell an uprising. These guys also want to use terrorists as a fist to keep America out. Then there's 6 billion dollars on a train. It's supposed to be used for bribes, but then why bother with an invasion? Also, shouldn't the Russian Army, as crumbling as they are, be able to stop a diesal, even it is crewed by spetsnaz? They talk about how they will kill soldiers who won't make it and officers who won't kill the dying soldiers, but evidently they didn't think to make sure the invasion orders from Moscow were authentic. It's kill clear that they mention this simmply to make us hate the Russians, even if it could possibly be true(I don't believe it). Also, doesn't Moscow have some sort of leash to control their Army? Also, there is the bit about the bagel order from around the world. They talk about how the bagels may stand for targets, but they could be bagels. It could simply be a test for the Communications Center. All in all, sloppy.

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Summary: A REALLY GOOD BOOK
Review: The cold war is over and Russia and the USA are still not friends. Although the USSR has been overthrown, there is still no peace. Although the newly elected president of Russia is trying to create a democracy, some politicians are still working to make a new Soviet Union. If you want to find out what happens next, read this book.

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Summary: From bad to worse...
Review: The Jack Ryan novels are usually good (if sometimes a bit one-dimensional...), but the "OP center" books are simply bad. The plots are thin, the dialog laughable and the characters uninteresting. "Red Storm Rising" shows how good TC can be at his best. Stick to that formular Tom!

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Summary: Tom Clancy R.I.P.
Review: If you love the "Jack Ryan" Clancy, for God's sake stay away from this amatuer attempt at suspense. Its soooo politically correct. The heros, regularly faced with life and death decisions, without fail do the right thing, just in the brink of time. Its beyond predictible. I end up hoping a hero dies just to put some believability into the story. Its not like you could develop any sympathy for the Flash Gordon wannabe charactors. Oh Tom, if you can hear me up there in your cammo colored tower, get rid of that quasi-co-author Steve fellow and get back to writing the good stuff.

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Summary: I'd give it a zero if that was an option... a total SCAM
Review: Warning to all who want to buy this or others in the Op Center series--Tom Clancy did NOT write it!!! Yes, it is true he absolutely did NOT write this book, hence the name "Tom Clancy's Op Center" and the word "creator" next to his name. If you want to figure out who did write it, it's the guy listed in Clancy's acknowledgement in the front of the book. This book's premise and some of its characters were thought up by Clancy but that's all he can claim. As a result, you drop $6 on a book by some guy you've never heard of just because Clancy's name is on the cover. I was so pissed off after discovering this (it was in Newsweek when the book was released) that I sold all my Clancy books--with 2 exceptions (Red Oct and Red Storm Rising)--to a used paperback store. I have not bought another one of his books since and have no intention of doing so if he is willing to deceive consumers on such a grand scale. I would be willing to bet the "Net Force" series are also ghost authored as well. A total sham that PT Barnum (A sucker born every minute) would be proud of. Shame on you Tom.