Tom Clancy's Op-Center #8: Line of Control

by Tom Clancy (Created by), Steve Pieczenik, Jeff Rovin

Overview

The line between military intelligence and military force has been crossed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101003671
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/01/2001
Series:	Tom Clancy's Op-Center Series , #8
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	75,055
File size:	791 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Years before, he had been an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel. His first effort, The Hunt for Red October, sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it “the perfect yarn.” From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He passed away in October 2013.

Steve Pieczenik is an author of political thrillers and a cocreator of the New York Times-bestselling Tom Clancy’s Op-Center and Tom Clancy’s Net Force series. He received an MD from Cornell University Medical College and a PhD in international relations from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pieczenik’s books are informed by his more than two decades as an international crisis manager and hostage negotiator in the US Department of State for the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush.

Jeff Rovin sold his first book at age 21 and has been a freelance writer ever since. He has worked as a consultant for television and movies and is a student of martial arts. He’s batty about New York, where he currently resides.

Hometown:

Huntingtown, Maryland

Date of Birth:

April 12, 1947

Date of Death:

October 1, 2013

Place of Birth:

Baltimore, Maryland

Education:

Loyola High School in Towson, Maryland, 1965; B.A. in English, Loyola College, 1969

Editorial Reviews

LINE OF CONTROL, the eighth book in the OP-CENTER series, is the product of Tom Clancy and collaborators Steve Pieczenik and Jeff Rovin. Rovin's work is reminiscent of a formula Western paperback, only it’s set on a modern-day landscape with all the characters armed to the teeth with twenty-first-century weapons of mass destruction. Michael Kramer admirably tries to breathe life into tired dialogue. His presentation is crisp and characterizations distinctive. But it’s not enough to save this effort. T.J.M. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

DEC 02/JAN 03 - AudioFile