Tom Clancy

Provides an inside look at the career of General Fred Franks, one of the leading American military commanders during the Gulf War, and discusses the transformations he observed in the United States Army in the years between the Vietnam War and the conflict in Iraq.

In the newly unified Germany, old horrors are reborn. Plans are afoot to destabilize Europe and cause turmoil throughout the United States. Paul Hood and his team, already in Germany to buy technology for the new Regional Op-Center, become entangled in the crisis.

"In this action-packed thriller in the New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, America's elite task force must take down a group of ruthless domestic terrorists determined to paralyze the country through extreme acts of violence. They are known as the Black Order. Self-proclaimed patriots and survivalists, they refuse to surrender their values and beliefs to the left-leaning cultural and progressive forces threatening their nation....

Op-Center, an American crisis management team, tries to tame the chaos that is settling over Russia as the new president struggles to create a democratic regime, but their work is hindered by the discovery of a Russian counterpart to Op-Center which is controlled by hardliners opposed to democracy.

In the year 2010, cyber-terrorists have assasinated the director of the FBI's Net Force and have sabotaged computers across the U.S., causing chaos and death. The deputy director and the Net Force team must find out who is responsible before they also become targets for the terrorists.

Kurdish terrorists are plotting to force all-out war in the Middle East, and when they become aware that a new mobile Op-Center is on-line in Turkey, they decide the high-tech crisis management facility might fit right in with their plans.

Op-Center faces a crisis situation when one of their representatives in Madrid is assassinated, confirming their suspicions that someone is trying to provoke another Spanish civil war.

"In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them, control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force."--Packaging.