Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War
- Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War
-
This article is about Tom Clancy's Op-Center:Acts of War. For the comic book, see Jedi Council: Acts of War. For other uses, see Acts of war (disambiguation).
Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War is a technothriller by Tom Clancy
Plot introduction
The mobile Regional Operations Center (ROC) in Turkey investigates a dam blown up by Kurdish terrorists. The ROC is later taken hostage by the Kurdish terrorists 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.
Categories:
- 1997 novels
- American thriller novels
- Techno-thriller novels
- Novels by Jeff Rovin
- Op-Center
- Thriller novel stubs
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
Acts of War — Infobox Book | name = Acts of War title orig = translator = image caption = author = Jeff Rovin illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = Tom Clancy s Op Center subject = genre = Techno thriller, Spy novel… … Wikipedia
Tom Clancy — This article is about the American novelist. For other people, see Tom Clancy (singer) and Thomas Owen Clancy. Tom Clancy Born April 12, 1947 (1947 04 12) (age 64) Baltimore County, Maryland, United States Occupation Novelist Nationality … Wikipedia
Tom Clancy — Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (* 12. April 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland) ist ein US amerikanischer Schriftsteller, der unter dem Namen Tom Clancy schreibt und besonders für seine Politthriller bekannt ist. Clancy ist zudem Mitbesitzer eines Baseballteams … Deutsch Wikipedia
Tom Clancy — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Clancy. Tom Clancy Activités écrivain Naissance 12 avril 1947 Thomas Leo Clancy Jr., dit Tom Clancy, est un romancier américain né à Baltimore dans le Maryland … Wikipédia en Français
The Clancy Brothers — and Tommy Makem The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in the 1960s. Background information Origin County Tipperary County Armagh, Ireland … Wikipedia
Mistaravim — (Hebrew: מסתערבים, lit. Arabized, in Arabic مستعربين )is the name given to those counter terrorism units of the Israel Defense Forces in which soldiers are specifically trained to disguise themselves as Arabs in order to kill or capture a wanted… … Wikipedia
List of Splinter Cell characters — The following is a list of characters found throughout the Splinter Cell series of video games and novels. Contents 1 Major characters 1.1 Lieutenant Commander Samuel Sam Fisher, USN (Ret.) 1.2 Colonel Irving Lambert, USA (KIA) … Wikipedia
literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… … Universalium
Fictional military aircraft — are imagined aircraft which are used in fiction, in its various media, but do not exist in the real world. These aircraft may be conjectured variants of real world aircraft or they may be completely fabricated by the author. Contents 1 Fictional… … Wikipedia
Media and Publishing — ▪ 2007 Introduction The Frankfurt Book Fair enjoyed a record number of exhibitors, and the distribution of free newspapers surged. TV broadcasters experimented with ways of engaging their audience via the Internet; mobile TV grew; magazine… … Universalium
