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Tom Clancy's Op-Center. Sting of the wasp / created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik ; written by Jeff Rovin.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250156914
- ISBN: 1250156912
- ISBN: 9781250183026
- ISBN: 1250183022
- Physical Description: 394 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York, New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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| General Note: | "Featuring new rapid crisis team"--Cover. |
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| Subject: | Special forces (Military science) > Fiction. Terrorism > Prevention > Fiction. Terrorism > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Action and adventure fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) |
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Available copies
- 13 of 13 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Rupert Library | APb Clan (Text) | 33294002072171 | Paperbacks - Adult | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2019 March #2
The latest military thriller in the late Tom Clancy's Op-Center series (For Honor, 2018, etc.). On a sunny summer morning in New York, visitors and crew are on the USS Intrepid at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. One such visitor is Capt. Ahmed Salehi, formerly of the navy of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard. When wind conditions are just so, he unleashes deadly chlorine trifluoride into the air. Horrible deaths ensue, and victims' flesh falls away "in dead lumps." Chase Williams, director of the National Crisis Management Center (the Op-Center), immediately wants to know why their intelligence failed to pick up on the threat. They want to identify the country responsible and counterattack. "Find out why we did not know this," Williams tells himself. The Op-Center had been watching Salehi before but had taken their eyes off him. At Fort Bragg and Camp Pendleton, Special Ops teams receive the ominous message "Black Wasp." Maj. Hamilton Breen, who takes America and i ts defense "very, very seriously," receives the same message. Op-Center connects Salehi to the attack, and of course he's on the lam, so the Black Wasp team is assembled to find him and his cohorts, wherever in the world they may be. Black Wasp's plan of action is so dangerous it "could not just explode in your face," but could topple President Wyatt Midkiff's administration. Meanwhile, and for no obvious plot reason, a teenage girl in Saudi Arabia is beaten nearly to death for wearing Western clothing with her hijab. The story has more talk than action, more action than character development, and frankly feels as though it's been stamped out of a mold at the Clancy Factory. The Op-Center concept looks like a straitjacket that prevents the kind of creativity thriller fans enjoy in stories like those found in Mark Greaney's Gray Man series. A decent read but several clicks below the books that made Tom Clancy so well-admired. Copyright Kirkus 2019 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2019 March #3
In Rovin's exciting sixth entry in the thriller series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik (after 2018's
Copyright 2019 Publishers Weekly.For Honor ), President Wyatt Midkiff disbands the Op-Center because its director, Chase Williams, and his staff failed to anticipate a major terrorist act, the bombing of Manhattan's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Williams gets a chance to redeem himself by heading the effort to track down the mastermind behind the attack, Ahmed Salehi, of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence. Williams commands a new secret teamâBlack-ops Wartime Accelerated Strike Placementâconsisting of Lt. Grace Lee of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Command, a martial arts master who specializes in deadly knife-work; Marine Lance Corporal Jaz Rivette, a sharpshooter; and Maj. Hamilton Breem, a criminologist and member of the JAG Corps. Various terrorist organizations help Salehi as he goes on the run, but the members of the Black Wasp team catch up with him in Aden, Yemen, in a satisfying showdown. Military action fans will be rewarded.Agent: Mel Berger, WME. (May)
