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Summary: This is one of the best in Tom Clancy's "Op- Center" series.
Review: "Op Center- State of Siege" had me on the edge of my seat the entire time I was reading it. I just could not put it down. It is one of the best books Tom Clancy has ever written. This book is absolutely wonderful. It is captivating, breathtaking, and all around an excellent book.
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Summary: Entertaining
Review: An interesting and enjoyable book. I skipped most of the parts narrated from the hostage-takers' point of view and concentrated on the parts about Paul Hood and his family, which engaged me from the start and made me want to find out how the book ended. I didn't expect Nobel Prize-caliber literary quality, and I didn't get it. What I did get was enough entertainment to keep me reading. If I wanted a classic, I would have read Charles Dickens.
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Summary: Too much pontification for an action book.
Review: Another in the Op-Center series; the characters seemed a little realer this time around ~ the protagonist especially, Paul Hood, perhaps because he has problems other than just the terrorists in the United Nations' building, NYC. The philosophy behind this tale is most difficult to swallow, and yet it is hard to accurately show the points with which one disagrees. The diplomacy of the United Nations is bound to fail in the face of terrorists who are not interested in negotiating ~ the heart of diplomacy ~ but in stating their demands and enforcing them. How then, other than the violent end Hood and Op-Center bring about, can such a seige be ended. Perhaps the most disagreeable moments in the book are those in which the authors pontificate and generalise ~ through their action-oriented soldier heroes ~ that the United Nations is a useless organisation the USA would be better off without ~ a sentiment i heartily despise. The plot is thick; the action is quick; the blood is spilt; both good and evil suffer; yet, at the end, one is left with the feeling that, however plausible a scenerio State of Siege paints, events wouldn't unfold in this fashion.
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Summary: The first and best Op-Center I've ever read!
Review: Clancy has done great in ditching those sometimes boring political plots and went into the action theme. The story is excellent and here is a summary: Paul Hood has retired as the Regional Op-Center director and now wishes to be with his wife and kids more. Sharon was a TV cooking show personality and his daughter Harleigh was an excellent violinist for her teenage age. His son, Alexander Hood (I hope I got the name right) enjoys video games and challenge. When Paul Hood finnaly retires, there is a sub-plot of emotional issues between him and Sharon but when they go to see Harleigh perform at a special diplomatic concert in New York for ambassadors and senators, greedy terrorists with a grandiose plan to get the world's attention and recieve a high ransom invade the United Nations building where the teenagers will perform and take the children and government people hostage. It is a race against time as hostages are killed on an hourly bases and while Secretary-General Chatterjee complains about giving diplomacy when Mike Rodgers wants to send in the Striker team. This has a good plot and lots of adventure that will "dazzle all readers!" (Me!)
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Summary: What book were you guys reading? This is the best one yet!
Review: Clancy's books have become longwinded lately, with unbelievable stock characters. Op-Center is different. The stories are exciting and topical, with what may be a literay first: An ongoing adult political soap opera. This latest novel exemplifies the best the series has to offer, with a hairtrigger story set more or less in real time and a true-to-live marital saga. I can't wait for the next one.
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Summary: Hardly his best work.
Review: Clancy's effort falls short of the mark. Clancy devotees who are accustomed to his previous page-turner efforts, particularly those familiar with the Op-Center series, will spend the first two-hundred or so pages of this read dredging through old events and re-establishing all too familiar characters. Too much window dressing for me! Restrict your reading to the last 100 pages or so - that is the heart of a Clancy novel (novelette?). Hopefully, Clancy is NOT taking his lead from another well-known (infamous)stage-setter, W.E.B. Griffin ("Brotherhood of War" series).
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Summary: POOR
Review: Don't waste your money and time. Mr Clancy is unable to write like before. He is too busy in designing computer games and buying football teams
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Summary: This is the one we've all been waiting for!
Review: Finally, Clancy put the politics aside and concentrated on some real action! The emotional crisis that Sharon was going through was a nice sub-plot, and I can't wait for the next Op-Center to see what happens to her and Paul's marriage. I first started reading this on an 8-hour train ride from D.C. to Boston. By the time I was back in Boston, I was half done with the book. I stayed up until nearly eleven finishing it. The action, the intrigue, the emotions, the stupid Secretary-General kept me enthralled from start to finish. Read it!
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Summary: a star for every element
Review: Glad that director Paul Hood has returned to Op-Center, thus creating a future for Op-Center which will last for at least one novel, I've rated this 6th Op-Center novel with four stars.I think that the elements of tension, action, pace and a good story-line - the unevitable elements in a master thriller - are yet another time present in the novel, just like every other work with is attached to mr. Clancy's name. This novel, though not as good as Games of State, Acts of War and Mirror Image, will do a pretty read for you, and I sure recommend that you read it. I give this novel one star for each element present, and I am just waiting for the next Op-Centre novel to be released. Hopefully this one will also carry the element of "I can't put it down" with it, so I'll be able to review it with five stars instead of the usual four for a Clancy novel
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Summary: a star for every element
Review: Glad that director Paul Hood has returned to Op-Center, thus creating a future for Op-Center which will last for at least one novel, I've rated this 6th Op-Center novel with four stars. I think that the elements of tension, action, pace and a good story-line - the unevitable elements in a master thriller - are yet another time present in the novel, just like every other work with is attached to mr. Clancy's name. This novel, though not as good as Games of State, Acts of War and Mirror Image, will do a pretty read for you, and I sure recommend that you read it. I give this novel one star for each element present, and I am just waiting for the next Op-Centre novel to be released. Hopefully this one will also carry the element of "I can't put it down" with it, so I'll be able to review it with five stars instead of the usual four for a Clancy novel
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