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After years of fending off challenges from the world's most dangerous terrorists, Op-Centre has been brought to heel by the US Congress. A short-sighted committee has cut Paul Hood's budget, and the first victim is his friend Mike Rodgers. But General Rodgers may not be looking for work for very long. Dynamic Senator Donald Orr is making a run for President at the head of his own third party. Running on a platform of extreme isolationism, Orr presents a real challenge to the two-party system, and he needs a strong military advisor to make his team complete. The problem is that Orr may be involved in more than just ordinary political intrigue. The bodies of two murdered millionaires may be tied into the new party, and Op-Centre is seeking the killer.
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Jeff Rovin lives in America and is the author of Tom Clancy's Op-Centre series.
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Format:Paperback
Firstly, I almost stopped reading this book after I saw two grammatical errors in the first four pages. They're not particularly bad, they just stop you in your tracks while you work out what was trying to be said. In any case, these errors may have been fixed.
The story is well told, but the character development and faithfulness to the characters leave a lot to be desired.
I feel that the author never really gets to grips with some of the characters. Often when he attempts to create character choices based on moral criteria, the reader is left feeling confused about the true feelings of the character. This especially is true of Mike Rodgers.
I don't like the way that the other characters of op-centre remain mostly untouched.
Otherwise the story is ok. Nothing really special. Well told, pacing isn't quite right for some of the book, and some of the twists (especially those concerning characters) feel too improvised to have been planned and executed with any degree of realism.
Overall, not a bad read, but not really up to Op-Centre standard.
The story is well told, but the character development and faithfulness to the characters leave a lot to be desired.
I feel that the author never really gets to grips with some of the characters. Often when he attempts to create character choices based on moral criteria, the reader is left feeling confused about the true feelings of the character. This especially is true of Mike Rodgers.
I don't like the way that the other characters of op-centre remain mostly untouched.
Otherwise the story is ok. Nothing really special. Well told, pacing isn't quite right for some of the book, and some of the twists (especially those concerning characters) feel too improvised to have been planned and executed with any degree of realism.
Overall, not a bad read, but not really up to Op-Centre standard.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
What happened to the international incidents??
25 Oct 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the eleventh book in the Op-Center series, and is the weakest story yet. Instead of an international crisis or espionage mission, Op-Center finds itself the target of a budget axe, and must downsize. At the same time, Op-Center finds itself drawn into a murder investigation that entangles it in the vicious world of Washington politics.
This book is trying hard to question the motivations and agendas of the powers-that-be in Washington, but fails to hit its target. In the end this book feels more like a worn-out detective story that happens to involve Op-Center characters. Hopefully, future volumes in this series will return to the international stage, where the stories are more interesting, and the potential consequences create more tension.
This book is trying hard to question the motivations and agendas of the powers-that-be in Washington, but fails to hit its target. In the end this book feels more like a worn-out detective story that happens to involve Op-Center characters. Hopefully, future volumes in this series will return to the international stage, where the stories are more interesting, and the potential consequences create more tension.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Awful, awful, awful
5 Aug 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The helicopters on the cover of this novel are actually flying through all the massive holes in this story's plot.
The final resolution requires the reader to make too many ridiculous leaps. Obviously it's fiction, but the author never draws me in to the world he's attempting to craft. The characters are dry and without depth and most of the dialogue reads like it was written by a 4th grader.
I begrudingly give it two stars because I did stick with it till the end because I HAD to know how it was all going to end ... so I guess that says something.
The final resolution requires the reader to make too many ridiculous leaps. Obviously it's fiction, but the author never draws me in to the world he's attempting to craft. The characters are dry and without depth and most of the dialogue reads like it was written by a 4th grader.
I begrudingly give it two stars because I did stick with it till the end because I HAD to know how it was all going to end ... so I guess that says something.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Review of Call To Treason
19 Sep 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I really do get disappointed by the commercialism of the 'Tom Clancy' authors these days. While it is undoubtedly a legitimate technique to utilize the worlds and characters created by other authors, this particular work will never be anything like a Clancy at its best.
As these series develop they seem less and less like Clancy.
The characters are becoming unbelievable and the plots lack both plausibility and grit. The "Clancy" of old exploded nuclear weapons in the USA, overturned corrupt presidential régimes and had key characters die when least expected. He took risks based on somewhat believable, though remote, probabilities and displayed to us all some wonderfully flawed characters.
The flawed General Rodgers and Paul Hood of Op-Centre despite their almost diametrically opposed judgments both succeed at the end, but reality isn't like that. It is inevitable that this plot will resolve in the best way for the ongoing society that is the US of A, though the reality of September 11 clearly indicates that truth is never as glowing as Op-Center's successes.
All that said if this wasn't plastered with Tom Clancy's name all over it, the book could probably stand as a reasonable airplane read.
There is a rapidly developing plot but the reader is given too many facts when the surprises could have been so much better had they been revealed later in the plot.
The first murder is engrossing, carefully thought out and well paced but then it all goes downhill. Rovin can obviously write, arouse emotion and deliver action but he is just not able to put this incredibly complex plot together. I doubt anyone could. Maybe it was released for the USA election fever.
Op-center needs to go back to its roots - action, technology, planning and teamwork. I can only hope that number 12 finds its way there. Smart plots building on the characters already developed, with a few surprises, will lead this team back from the wilderness. I hope so as airplane seats are getting smaller and a good yarn is essential to pass the time.
As these series develop they seem less and less like Clancy.
The characters are becoming unbelievable and the plots lack both plausibility and grit. The "Clancy" of old exploded nuclear weapons in the USA, overturned corrupt presidential régimes and had key characters die when least expected. He took risks based on somewhat believable, though remote, probabilities and displayed to us all some wonderfully flawed characters.
The flawed General Rodgers and Paul Hood of Op-Centre despite their almost diametrically opposed judgments both succeed at the end, but reality isn't like that. It is inevitable that this plot will resolve in the best way for the ongoing society that is the US of A, though the reality of September 11 clearly indicates that truth is never as glowing as Op-Center's successes.
All that said if this wasn't plastered with Tom Clancy's name all over it, the book could probably stand as a reasonable airplane read.
There is a rapidly developing plot but the reader is given too many facts when the surprises could have been so much better had they been revealed later in the plot.
The first murder is engrossing, carefully thought out and well paced but then it all goes downhill. Rovin can obviously write, arouse emotion and deliver action but he is just not able to put this incredibly complex plot together. I doubt anyone could. Maybe it was released for the USA election fever.
Op-center needs to go back to its roots - action, technology, planning and teamwork. I can only hope that number 12 finds its way there. Smart plots building on the characters already developed, with a few surprises, will lead this team back from the wilderness. I hope so as airplane seats are getting smaller and a good yarn is essential to pass the time.
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