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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 6
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Op-Center head Paul Hood has cleared out his desk. But his retirement is short-lived. Demanding one hundred million dollars in ransom, the assassins have taken over the U.MN. - where ambassadors from ten nations have gathered for a gala function at which Hood's daughter will perform.
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Op-Center volume 9
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
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A group of Af5rican militiamen have kidnapped a priest and ordered all Catholic missionaries to leave the nation of Botswana. But the Vatican thinks otherwise. At its urging, Op-Center investigates--and finds that the real purpose of the crime is a plan by outside forces to destabilize the government and seize the nation's diamond mines.
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 10
Pub. Date
c2003
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When a radio-active half-dead Singapore pirate is rescued from the Celebes Sea, Australian officials call the Op-Center team, who find a most unlikely terrorist.
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 11
Pub. Date
2004
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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...
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 12
Pub. Date
2005
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The explosion of a Chinese freighter in Charleston Harbor is the first sign that someone is capping Chinese interests abroad. Now under the control of the Pentagon, Op-Center is unsure of its own future-but must root out the cause of the attacks before the entire world is affected.
11) Out of the ashes
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Pub. Date
2014
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center is back with this new thriller written by the New York Times bestselling authors of Tom Clancy's Act of Valor and featuring a chilling, ripped-from-the-headlines scenario. Before 9/11, America was protected by a covert force known as the National Crisis Management Center. Commonly known as Op-Center, this silent, secret mantel guarded the American people and protected the country from enemies. The charter was top secret and...
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When terrorists detonate bombs in sports stadiums around the country leaving men, women and children dead or mutilated, the President executes an emergency order to bring back Op-Center and thwart a renegade Saudi Prince with ambitions of controlling the world's oil supply by manipulating America into attacking Syria, launching a war against Iran, and igniting a sleeper cell to attack the American homeland.
13) Into the fire
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 14
Pub. Date
2015.
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Tensions flare in Northwest Asia and Op-Center races to prevent World War III in this chilling, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller from the authors of the USA Today bestseller Out of the Ashes. When a team of assassins murder a high-ranking North Korean general and his family in their sleep, making it look like a robbery, events are set in motion that could shake the balance of world powers. Meanwhile, a U.S. naval combat ship, the USS Milwaukee,...
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 14
Pub. Date
2015.
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When a team of assassins murders a high-ranking North Korean general and his family in their sleep, making it look like a robbery, events are set in motion that could shake the balance of world powers. Meanwhile, a U.S. Navy combat ship, the USS Milwaukee, is attacked by North Korean forces in the middle of a training exercise off the shore of South Korea, and Commander Kate Bigelow is forced to ground the ship to avoid being captured. The crew takes...
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Pub. Date
2016
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General Bob Underwood is en route to Syria when a rocket-propelled grenade strikes the side of his Humvee and the heavily armored convoy comes under attack. His bodyguard is brutally murdered, and Underwood himself is kidnapped. Hours later, the president and top officials watch in horror from the Oval Office as the general is viciously beheaded by an ISIS leader—broadcast live on the Al Jazeera television network.
The world is stunned
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 15
Pub. Date
2016.
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"ISIS reigns supreme in huge swathes of Iraq and Syria and poses a threat to stability in the Middle East. When an American airstrike kills the ISIS leader's only son, he vows revenge. He discovers that a U.S. Navy admiral, now on duty in the Pentagon, led the strike. The ISIS leader has him kidnapped by American home-grown ISIS sympathizers. Their orders: smuggle him out of the United States and bring him to Mosul for execution.When the normal levers...
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 15
Pub. Date
[2016]
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"ISIS reigns supreme in huge swathes of Iraq and Syria and poses a threat to stability in the Middle East. When an American airstrike kills the ISIS leader's only son, he vows revenge. He discovers that a U.S. Navy admiral, now on duty in the Pentagon, led the strike. The ISIS leader has him kidnapped by American home-grown ISIS sympathizers. Their orders: smuggle him out of the United States and bring him to Mosul for execution.When the normal levers...
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Former US Ambassador to the Ukraine Douglas Flannery meets with an old friend and former spy near New Yorkś South Street Seaport. She is seeking his help to thwart a Russian plan to overrun her native Ukraine, but those for whom she is working propose an infinitely more dangerous scheme, one that could draw in NATO forces and possibly ignite World War III. Moments later, as she jogs along the East River, her throat is slashed. Within hours, Op-Center...
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 17
Pub. Date
2018.
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"In this chilling new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series, simmering tensions threaten to ignite when a silo of Cold War missiles surfaces in the Middle East. In 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent a convoy of nuclear missiles to Cuba. The crisis that followed almost triggered World War III. However, while all eyes were on the Caribbean, not all of the missiles were sent to Cuba. Several ships slipped from the...
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 18
Pub. Date
2019.
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It's a beautiful summer day in Manhattan as excited tourists board the floating Air and Space Museum on the USS Intrepid. Suddenly, a horrible explosion rips across the flight deck, showering the body parts of innocent men, women, and children everywhere. The perpetrator is none other than Captain Ahmed Salehi, an Iranian mastermind whose last terrorism plot was foiled at the last minute by Op-Center. This time, seeking revenge, he slipped under their...