Tom Clancy's Op-Center #1

De: Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Jeff Rovin

Narrado por: Michael Kramer

A terrorist bomb explodes during a South Korean celebration of the anniversary of the election of its first president. Alarms are raised in Washington. No one is claiming responsibility. The first suspect is North Korea. Could it be making a power play against South Korea and unification? If so, how will the U.S. respond? Paul Hood, Director of the Op-Center, must answer these questions. The Op-Center, a largely autonomous new agency which takes on the government's toughest security problems, is only six months old, and has never been given a foreign crisis until now. Hood's team, which includes a general, a former ambassador, a psychologist, and a computer specialist, tries to find the solution, only to discover a factor that could change the new world order.

Great story from Ops Center Novel

This is an excellent novel. I truly enjoyed it, and strongly recommend it. I can't wait for the next one

Special opps entertainment with a little too much techno jargon

The concept of a top secret special ops center hidden deep underground is very appealing. Add in spies and a Russian enemy and it all seems contemporary. Two things I found off-putting were the excessive use of military and weaponry acronyms and gobbledegook which just interrupted the flow of the narrative, and the constant changes of setting so that when we come back to a previous character, it was three chapters ago — and on audible books, this means rewind to remind yourself who we’re talking about. All the weaponry acronyms could just be replaced with words like “weapon” or “gun” and I’d be a lot happier with the story. All of these slow down the story too much. However, the story is entertaining, and I will definitely read more of these.

It's okay

The narration was a little drab. I guess I just got used to Lou Diamond Phillips as a narrator in the later stories.

Clancy strikes again!

This was a really good story that was well told. Like all Clancy novels it was filled with the details regarding the inner workings of the military. One reviewer said Michael Kramer was monotone. I don’t think they listened to the same book! Anytime a narrator has multiple characters from different countries, it is extremely difficult to distinguish them. Mr. Kramer does a nice Korean accent without making it over the top.

Paul Hood is not Jack Ryan. If you are looking for another Jack Ryan novel, this is not it. However if you want a really good political thriller that could actually happen, this is it! Enough said.

Clancy and Op-center was intense.

Would you try another book from the authors and/or Michael Kramer?

Yes, I am a fan of the all thrillers.

What did you like best about this story?

Donald's heroic actions to prevent the outbreak of a new Korean war.

Did Michael Kramer do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Yes

Could you see Tom Clancy's Op-Center being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

Tom Cruise maybe, H Ford as Donald.

Nostalgic

Written during a time before we knew of the insanity & paranoia of North Korean leadership, & when diskettes were used to store files.
The story is a plodder; adequate. It lacks the action & suspense (and high tech) of the Jack Ryan series, and the characters are absolutely ordinary.
I probably won’t pick up book two in the series, but I wasn’t bored enough by the story with this one to return it.

he's written better but it's still really good

We always enjoy Tom Clancy novels and having a series is even better, something to look forward to.

Good Voice Actor, long-winded good read

it was a long book. good story. I wouldn't have been able to get through it reading if it wasn't read to me. Voice actor was great at doing many voices.

OK. Not great.

This was a relatively short book. Character development was minimal. There was a plethora of characters with barely recognizable Korean names. Most of the time I could not tell who were the good guys and who were the bad guys and it wasn't until the very last paragraph of the book that I really understood exactly what "op-center" was supposed to be. Characters would pop up seemingly out of nowhere and they were all assigned unpronounceable names instead of just identified by title. Maybe the book was more comprehensible in written form But as an audiobook it was difficult to follow with a convoluted plotline. The performance was reasonably good however I still don't understand why one of the principal characters , Gregory Donald , had an American sounding name but whose dialogue was read with some type of accent. I really wish the author would not name characters with two first names and then arbitrarily use one or the other. I was halfway through the book before I realized for sure that he was talking about the same person.

Kramer reads it like a 1930s detective radio show

What did you like best about Tom Clancy's Op-Center? What did you like least?

I liked the book, but I don't like the way Kramer reads. Shame.... I'd like to listen to the rest of the series.

What did you like best about this story?

The story was constructed well, and handles a number of converging threads well.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

His phrasing make the book sound like a cheap 1930's detective radio show vs a Tom Clancy novel.

Could you see Tom Clancy's Op-Center being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

no