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Tom Clancy's Op Center: Acts of War

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Country
  
United States

Series
  
Tom Clancy's Op-Center

Publication date
  
March 1997

Authors
  
Tom Clancy, Jeff Rovin

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Language
  
English

Publisher
  
HarperCollins

Originally published
  
March 1997

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Media type
  
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)

Characters
  
Paul Hood, Gen. Mike Rodgers, Lowell Coffey II, Liz Gordon, Matt Stoll, Darrel McCaskey, Bob Herbert

Preceded by
  
Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Mirror Image, Games of State: Op-Center 03, Tom Clancy's Op-Center

Followed by
  
Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War, Tom Clancy's Op-Center #7: Divide and Conquer, Balance of Power

Genres
  
Techno-thriller, Spy fiction

Similar
  
Tom Clancy books, Tom Clancy's Op-Center books, Techno-thriller books

Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War is a technothriller by Jeff Rovin

Contents

Plot introduction

The mobile Regional Operations Center (ROC) in Turkey investigates a dam blown up by Kurdish militants. The ROC is later taken hostage by the Kurdish militants who blew the dam.

Characters in Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War

  • Mike Rodgers- General, in charge of ROC
  • Paul Hood
  • Lowell Coffey II- Attorney, 40, civilian assigned to ROC
  • Ibrahim al-Rashid- Syrian Kurd
  • Mahmoud al-Rashid- Syrian Kurd
  • Dr. Phil Katzen- Biophysicist, 33, cilivan assigned to ROC
  • Dr. Mary Rose Mohalley- Computer programmer, 29, civilian assigned to ROC

    • Major themes

  • The desire of the Kurdish people for an independent state. The novel implies that the Kurds from Syria, Turkey, and Iraq work together to force a war between the government of Turkey and Syria, with the eventual goal of being granted an individual territory.
  • Injustices suffered by the Kurds at the hands of the governments of the nations they live in.
  • Volatility of Middle-East region, both politically and ideologically

    • Release details

    The novel was released in 1997, prior to the attack on the World Trade Center towers and the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, but after the establishment of an Iraqi Kurdistan in Iraq from the aftermath of the Gulf War.

    References

    Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War Wikipedia
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