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Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Mirror Image

Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Mirror Image

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Rating: 1 stars
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.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Crap - but understand that Clancy didn't write this.
Review: I agree with all of you. The opcenter books are best described as garbage. But don't blame Tom Clancy - or do, but understand that he didn't write them. He just came up with the idea, and sold it. Note that amazon.com doesn't even list an author for these books, just creators (Clancy and Pieczenik). That alone should tell you something.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Exciting! Drone on and on and on and on and on.And on again
Review: This has to have been the worst Op-Center book I have so far read [I haven't read Mirror Image or Balance of Power] Call me naive, but the others are good stories, though not accurate. But this story was exciting in the begining, but after Rodgers was captured, it just droned on and on and on, and on some more. Rodgers decides to stand resolute, then as soon as someone's threatened, he folds, then goes back to the brave american during torture. All side plots are useless, and Clancy goes on about the technology used. I had to check my pulse to make sure I was alive when reading it. Clancy has delivered good stories before, but this is not one of them.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome, A great depiction of the dealing with terrorists
Review: I just finished the book a couple of days ago and I was very happy with the way the book turned out. The part I liked best was the last few chapters. I won't spoil it for you but the ending it not what you expect. Overall the book has alot of detail. You can tell that Tom Clancy spent alot of time researching the book. The event that is depicted is very realistic and the actions that are taken are also very real. The book does have some gore but not a lot. The main view of the book is government stratigy when dealing with terrorists. The charicters are very well developed. You learn about the family's of the charicters unlike other books. That way you can learn how the charicters handel situations at home and at work.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Outstanding - action, drama, intrigue...
Review: I felt like a boy again reading this book. Remember how when we were young (I'm generalising a bit here), how we used to be so intrigued with playing our little war fantasies with our toy tanks and planes and little green combat men.... Or how we used to buy books on warplanes, ships etc and read up on their technical specs, conquest etc.

I relived all with this book. Tom Clancy's is one of the few authors I know who can have you reading from front to back in one sitting, and making you regret having to put it down halfway to get on with daily life.

The story is very believing - Clancy mixes facts with characters you can believe in. He gives an inside look on how government agencies operate (or wish how they operate).

I can't help but to recommend this to anyone been interested in war stories/games.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Way better than the First Op Center
Review: This is a great book that really outdoes the first Op Center with the Korean bombing and all. This one with Russia is much more action packed and full of adventure and suspense. The end is great and will bring goosebumbs to you. I reccomend this book, and give it 5 stars.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Who wrote this keystone cop adventure?
Review: Anyone with over a week in the military will get a laugh from this one. The cartoon charactors include a general (Mike Rodgers) who is wishy washy and takes courageous stands only to backpeddle at the first sign of having to back them. In real life an officer with his fortitude would not have made 1st lt. Next we have an "elite" commando force that consists of one colonel and 19 privates, do your resaearch Clancy. Then come the terrorists. The leader, having as hostage a General that has already proven that he will fold the first time someone threatens one of the ladies, fails to use the obvious means to get him to talk. The group as a whole are jerks who, after watching the general cave in and give information to the terrorists several times, turn and ostrasize a fellow (who is not bound by military oaths or training) for doing the same thing the general has done repeatedly. This book is drivil and Tom Clancy needs to find another profession, he is definatly not a very good author.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Clancy + Pieczenik + Hack = OK thriller, sans plot
Review: I'm not a huge Clancy fan, but I do enjoy the Op-Center series because they're a quick and easy read. Case in point, Acts of War, in which Kurdish terrorists bomb a Turkish damn in an effort to taunt the Turks and Syrians into a conflict. Out of the ashes of this war, the Kurds anticipate a Kurdish state. Add to this mixture a Gadget-laden remote Op-Center (GMC Conversion van with an attitude) that falls into the wrong hands.

There's not much in the way of a plot here, but the counter-terrorism measures that are showcased are pretty neat stuff. And, even if the characters don't elicit much empathy from the reader, at least they've got some cracklin' good dialogue. I enjoyed it.

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: 15 from CO, and I loved Op-Center
Review: I thought that Op-Center was a great look into a seemingly realistic crisis center for our country. I don't completely know if this is the first in the series, but I enjoyed the story. It starts with a terrorist bombing that devostates a Korean speech, and escalates into a freightningly realistic veanture to cause war between some of the most powerfull countries in the world, which this crack-team of crisis speacialists are bent on stopping. Though this novel lacked in parts, it was still a good adventure story that sucked me into its enviornment and story-line (which gave me many a late night trying to find a good place to put the book down). I thought Op-Center to be a wild ride, and I can't to pick up the next page-turner I purchase from the Op-Center series.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Op-Center series goes from bad to worse.
Review: I have been a long time Tom Clancy fan but these Op-Center one week novels are not only goofy, they are bad. That from someone as talented as Clancy, is sad. Please get back with Jack Ryan and let these other people write on their own...


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