Tom Clancy
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Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 1
Pub. Date
1995
Lexile Measure
970L
Summary
Op-Center: A beating heart of surveillance, intelligence, and defensive technology, run by a crack team of operatives both within its own walls and out in the field. Nothing could prepare director Paul Hood and his Op-Center team for what they are about to uncover--a very real, very frightening power that could unleash new players in a new Cold War.
3) Battle ready
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Battle Ready follows the evolution of both General Zinni and the Marine Corps, from the cauldron of Vietnam through the operational revolution of the seventies and eighties, to the new realities of the post-Cold War, post-9/11 military-a military with a radically different job and radically different tools for accomplishing it. It is an eye-opening book-a front-row seat to a man, an institution, and a way of both war and peace that together make this...
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Pub. Date
c2002
Summary
The kidnapping of a Catholic priest by a group of African militiamen, who order all Catholic missionaries out of Botswanna, sends the Op-Center, with their own military team, Striker, out of commission, into the middle of a dangerous civil war in Africa as they discover a plot by outside forces to destabilize the local government.
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Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 5
Pub. Date
c1998
Summary
Spain is a nation poised to suffer its worst internal strife in centuries. Certain well-placed Spanish diplomats sense it. Op-Center intelligence corroborates it. All the United States and Spain have to do is find a way to avert it. Before they can, an Op-Center representative is assassinated in Madrid on her way to a top secret meeting. Now all fears are confirmed. Someone very powerful wants another Spanish civil war--no matter what the cost.
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Pub. Date
2004
Summary
Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Call to Treason is yet another gripping addition to the bestselling series masterminded by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. The Op-Center's budget is slashed, leaving General Mike Rodgers in the market for a new job. When presidential candidiate Senator Donald Orr recruits Rodgers to act as his military advisor, it sounds like a perfect transition. There's just one problem. A spree of deaths may be tied to Orr's presidential...