OP Center Summary

[Mohit Goyal]

Tom Clancy's Op-Center
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A terrorist bomb explodes during a South Korean celebration of the
anniversary of the election of its first President. Alarms are raised
in Washington. No one is claiming responsiblity. The first suspect
is North Korea. Could they be making a power play against South Korea
and unification? If so, how would the U.S. respond? The job of finding
out the answer to these questions is left to Paul Hood, Director of the
Op-Center.

The Op-Center, _a largely autonomous new agency_, is only six months
old. It has never been given a foreign crisis until now. Hood's team,
which includes: A General, a former ambassador, a psychologist, and a
computer specialist, try to find solutions, only to discover something
that could change the new world-order.

Could Paul Hood be Tom Clancy's new _Jack Ryan_?

Here's the publishing info...

U.S. Paperback:
Berkley Books, The Berkley Publishing Group
February 1995, 387 pp.
Copyright (c) 1995 by Jack Ryan Limited Partnership
and S&R Literary, Inc.
Cost: $6.99US. and $8.99 Cdn.

Enjoy...

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'Just because you are a character, doesn't mean you've got character.'-Mr.Wolf

[Travis Dawson]

Mohit Goyal writes:
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> Could Paul Hood be Tom Clancy's new _Jack Ryan_?

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How many of you out there think Clancy really wrote that book?

Consider:

1) It was released in paperback!

2) It was released simultaneously with the TV announcement.

3) Nowhere does it say written by Clancy. It says variously
"Tom Clancy's 'Op Center'" and "created by Tom Clancy & ...".

4) The first 10 chapters (40 pages or so, they're short chapters)
don't read at all like a Clancy novel.

I submit that:

A) Clancy didn't write it at all, at most was a minor collaborator

or

B) Clancy is taking a break from his usual style and writing quick
fiction.

I believe the former.

-Travis Dawson

[Jerry Ennis]

In <3fj6a2$3...@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov> Travis Dawson

<daw...@pdalpha.msfc.nasa.gov> writes:
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>How many of you out there think Clancy really wrote that book?
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[good reasons to doubt TC's authorship deleted]

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>I submit that:
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>A) Clancy didn't write it at all, at most was a minor collaborator
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>or
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>B) Clancy is taking a break from his usual style and writing quick
>fiction.
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>I believe the former.
>

Me too. And SHAME on Clancy.