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Product Description Op-Center is the nation's heart of intelligence and crisis management. Sometimes, it's the only place our government can turn. Amazon.com Review Tom Clancy's Op-Center is a beating heart of defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology. It is run by a team of operatives both within its own walls and out in the field. And when a job is too dirty--or too dangerous--it is the only place our government can turn. But nothing can prepare Director Paul Hood and his Op-Center crisis management team for what they are about to uncover--a very real, very frightening power play that could unleash new players in a new world order.... Review Clancy knows how to build a political thriller. -- The Boston Globe From the Inside Flap 2 cassettes / 3 hours Read by Edward Herrmann The first blockbuster novel in the thrilling Op Center series. Op-Center is a beating heart of defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology. It is run by a crack team of operatives both within its won walls and out in the field. And when a job is too dirty, or too dangerous, Op-Center is the only place out government can turn. Op-Center is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik--inspiring this audio cassette, as well as the special NBC Television presentation. From School Library Journal YA?A terrorist bomb explodes at a celebration outside the Palace in Seoul, South Korea, with hundreds of casualties. Was it planted by angry North Koreans? Anti-reunification South Koreans? Or one group posing as the other to shift blame? Will the U.S. go in to help an ally? Speedy and efficient answers must be provided through a new U.S. intelligence agency under the direction of Paul Hood. Shorter than many other Clancy novels, Op-Center is action-packed and less violent than Without Remorse (Putnam, 1993). Brief chapters relate each event in the 41 hours during the international crisis and shift quickly to many locales. Readers must remember under what circumstances they last saw each person and must be able to keep the Korean names straight. The author is a master at providing a past and a personality for the main characters in a few words. The others come alive through their actions. The intricate climax shows that neither side is all good or all bad: cooperation is needed to keep peace. Sure to be popular, especially when the television movie airs.?Claudia Moore, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgements ONE - Tuesday, 4:10 P.M., Seoul TWO - Tuesday, 5:30 P.M., Seoul THREE - Tuesday, 3:50 A.M , Chevy Chase, MD FOUR - Tuesday, 5:55 P.M., Seoul FIVE - Tuesday, 6:01 P.M., Seoul SIX - Tuesday, 4:04 A.M., the White House SEVEN - Tuesday, 6:05 P.M., Seoul EIGHT - Tuesday, 4:08 A.M., Chevy Chase, MD NINE - Tuesday, 6:10 P.M., Seoul TEN - Tuesday, 6:13 P.M., Nagato, Japan ELEVEN - Tuesday, 6:15 P.M., Seoul TWELVE - Tuesday, 5:15 A.M., the White House THIRTEEN - Tuesday, 5:25 A.M., Quantico Marine Corps Air Station, VA FOURTEEN - Tuesday, 7.30 P.M., Seoul FIFTEEN - Tuesday, 5:55 A.M., Washington, D.C. SIXTEEN - Tuesday, 8:00 P.M., the Sea of Japan SEVENTEEN - Tuesday, 6:02 A.M., Op-Center EIGHTEEN - Tuesday, 6:03 A.M., Andrews Air Force Base NINETEEN - Tuesday, 8:19 P.M., Seoul TWENTY - Tuesday, 6:25 A.M., Op-Center TWENTY-ONE - Tuesday, 9:00 P.M., Seoul TWENTY-TWO - Tuesday, 7:08 A.M, Virginia-Kentucky Border TWENTY-THREE - Tuesday, 7:10 A.M., Op-Center TWENTY-FOUR - Tuesday, 9:15 P.M., Seoul TWENTY-FIVE - Tuesday, 7:35 A.M., Op-Center TWENTY-SIX - Tuesday, 7:45 A.M., the National Reconnaissance Office TWENTY-SEVEN - Tuesday, 9:55 P.M., Seoul TWENTY-EIGHT - Tuesday, 7:57 A.M., Op-Center TWENTY-NINE - Tuesday, 10:00 P.M., Seoul THIRTY - Tuesday, 8:05 A.M., Op-Center THIRTY-ONE - Tuesday, 10:10 P.M., Seoul THIRTY-TWO -