As there are no negative so far, I'll give my reasons for disliking the book (spoiler warning).

1) The countless bad and downright baffling decisions made by supposedly intelligent characters. Amongst others;
Exhibit A. When captured, General Rodgers calls the ROC to his location, handing terrorists an immensely valuable piece of military hardware. He does manage to give a covert warning to his team that the terrorists will try to ambush and capture the ROC, so why doesn't he give a covert warning for his team to evacuate/hide instead ? He's captured in friendly territory, his captors are not motorized (one motorcycle for 3 terrorist and 2 hostages) and there is a team nearby that can track you effortlessly using satellite. He's going to get rescued, as long as he doesn't let that surveillance equipment be risked in a half-baked rescue attempt.

Exhibit B. The Israeli soldier when captured. He knows the following; The Kurds have highly sophisticated surveillance equipment. The Kurds know someone was trying to send a message from close to their cave. The Kurds managed to track him effortlessly, even without visual contact. It's a safe assumption that they know he tried to send that message and escape them, at the very least they do not trust him. If, in such a case, a terrorist gives him a gun and tells him to go and shoot hostages, there is a rather big chance that this is a test and there is something wrong with the gun. Don't use it to try and shoot terrorists.

Exhibit C. Actually, nothing was wrong with the gun, it was only missing it's first bullet. (So the gun wouldn't obviously weigh less.) Let's recap again. You steal an immensely valuable piece of equipment and take 6 Americans hostage, there is a non-trivial chance the USA will be coming to get that back. You then intercept a message being sent out from near you base of operations. You track the person sending that message as he tries to escape using infrared and capture him (he pretends to be a Kurdish sympathizer). YOU THEN GIVE HIM A FUNCTIONING, LOADED GUN TO SEE IF HE BETRAYS YOU! You are saved by the fact he only tries to shoot you once.

2) Deus-Ex-Machinas. I count at least 3 times when one of the good guys is seconds from being shot when the cavalry arrives.

3) This might go under point 1), but there is a huge plothole where the terrorists first learn that the man they captured is a general (he was pretending to be an archaeologist) and are later surprised that the van the general's team is travelling in (which is filled to the brim with computers) is in fact not a mobile archaeologist's office, but a mobile surveillance post. It seems the writer just forgot that the terrorists already knew that they had captured soldiers.3 s Matt668

Decades of repression by several nations has led to a unprecedented unification of militants looking to create a nation for the Kurds and their plan is so audacious that it could result in a war ranging from the Arabian Sea into Eastern Europe and possibly the fracturing of NATO, Op-Center must manage to contain this crisis even as members of their own team are held hostage. Written by Jeff Rovin, but named for Tom Clancy, Acts of War is the fourth book of the Op-Center series which sees a well-planned attack by Kurdish militants send Turkey and Syria on the verge of war as the action spans from Eastern Turkey to the streets of Damascus and the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.

A four-man team of Syrian Kurds cross into Turkey, attack the Turkish guards then are able to commander a military helicopter that they use to destroy the Ataturk Dam. Nearby General Mike Rodgers heads a small team testing the first Regional Op-Center—ROC—that will allow for better crisis management, deciding to scout the attack on the Dam with a Turkish liaison officer, they are captured by three of the Kurds which leads to the capture of the ROC when they attempt to rescue the duo. Meanwhile the strike of the Dam has cause Turkey to mobilize it’s forces south to the Syrian border, the Syrian mobilize theirs to the north, Iraq begins making moves towards Kuwait, and other nations begin stepping up their military including Greece which might ally itself with Syria. With a possible general war in the Middle East about to break out the President sends Op-Center head Paul Hood to Damascus to negotiate with Syrian President. Hood sends Op-Center’s military team, Striker, to Israel so as to set up a rescue of the capture ROC before the President decides to destroy it and the hostages in a missile strike before the Kurds can use US intelligence for the rest of their plan, including a coordinated attack in the heat of Damascus which puts Hood in the crossfire. Through both luck and the calling in of various favors around the region, Op-Center is able to resolve the crisis before it escalates into general war but not without a price.

Released in 1997, Acts of War used the volatile political landscape of that time—and save the good relationship between Israel and Turkey of now—as the setting for this action thriller. Unfortunately a lot of the book comes down to the stupidity of General Mike Rodgers’ essentially boyish need to be a cowboy instead of an actual military officer and then his actions against the Kurds while being a hostage the endangered all the other hostages before murdering a Kurd who tortured him after he had been captured by Striker. The positives of the book such as the well thought out plan of the Kurdish militants to create a general war, the Israeli spy of Druze descent who scouts the Bekaa Valley and helping the now Brett August lead Striker team’s action in combat, and the analysis the various nightmare scenarios of a general war in the Middle East are all outweighed by everything dealing with Rodgers, including a Presidential pardon for killing said Kurd with no ramifications say retiring, negates everything.

Acts of War, several previous Op-Center books, has an intriguing plot idea that is undermined by poor writing though amazingly for different reasons than previous book. Yet this book is a rather frustrating and somewhat disappointing read, more so than Mirror Image, because it shows Jeff Rovin is knowingly doing bad writing on an element in one book when heÂ’s showed before or shows later that he knows how to write good on that same element.1997-reads 2018-reads thriller1 Erth3,849

now i am hooked. This was such a great, easy and creative book. i was hooked after the first page.

The characters were easy to fall in love with and follow, along with the story. the author made the mental visions so easy and vivid of the surroundings and the characters actions felt so real.

i would highly recommend this author and this book.1 Phillip63 11

Yet another great installment to the Op-Center Series. I really enjoyed this entire series, This book was another page turner.1 David639 2

Another fun and great story in the Op-Center Series ... Highly recommend this series if you have not already read it. If you have read it again!1 Sean Cozart130

Picking up the series again after many years of not having a library. Admittingly, I don't remember anything from the previous three works, I just know I read it. But I'm just continue nothing happened.

Syrian Kurds band together to enact a terror attack against Turkey by blowing up a dam on the Euphrates River, a plan that would surely stop the drought in Syria. Nearby, Op-Center is testing a new piece of intelligence technology called the Regional Op-Center (ROC), a van full of surveillance equipment. After hearing word of the dam bombing, they move in to investigate and ultimately fall into the hands of the terrorists. With American hostages, a highly technological vehicle in the hands of terrorists, a dam blown up by an unknown culprit, and various Middle Eastern countries shuffling troops across the country, if the perpetrators aren't caught soon, it could become a full blown war.

I don't have much comment pertaining to the book other than it's your standard militaristic novel. I have nothing bad to say about it, but not much that makes it stand out from others I've read. What kept this from being 5 stars was the climax. I do not understand why the USS Pittsburgh, who knew very well a Striker team was en route to capture the ROC, would fire a Tomahawk warhead at their men. I understand it's for just in case the Striker team couldn't capture the ROC and if they did, you'd just abort the missile but the Striker team is not going to back off. So why blow them up while they're in the middle of their mission? To me, that's a very irresponsible move to do against your own men. And for that, a star is dropped. Ian Mewhinney377 3

This was a really good technothriller/spy espianoge novel. Good story that feels true to Clancy's style. It was very complex and technically detailed; but the feel of the book is about 50% talking about politics/military and middle eastern religious/terrorist philiosophies to give a good background to the story; and the other 50% being the actual action and story progression. Overall the book pace felt good enough, though a bit slow all things considered. There are some really great action/explosion scenes on top of technical descriptions of everything involved in the story. It doesn't feel too overbearing. Wasn't very engaged with the character's personalities, more plot based scenery. I feel these technically detailed books are better read in print to get more involved in the story, but I really enjoyed this one. A well written Middle east conflict based novel, written in the late 90s after the Gulf War. 3.5/5 Tuti439 1 follower

This book is very hard for me to read, because:
One - It's about torture, either: events leading to people people getting captured and tortured; people being threatened with torture; people dealing about other people being threatened with torture; people being tortured; people watching and reacting to other people being tortured; people worrying that other people might be tortured but were helpless to really do anything about it, etc.

Two - The continuous missteps by the Americans and the continuous lucky breaks on the terrorists
thriller Drew Keim113

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1 star = Did not finish / did not
2 stars = Had trouble keeping attention to finish
3 stars = Good enjoyable book. A great way to spend my time.
4 stars = Couldn't set the book down. Engaging. Great Book.
Will ly reread when more of the series is released.
5 stars = (4 stars) plus such a good book I will re-read it periodically.
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What an excellent series. The way these books reflect what is happening today is unreal. But Mike Rogers did the right thing. His resolve to sacrifice himself for the war on terror was just what we need today. Unfortunately we don't have the leadership for it. Great plot excellent reading truly 5 stars plus series. Thanks, Carl Clause Jai adlakha39 1 follower

Another Tom Clancy classic , however i started this book thinking it would actually discus what constitutes as an act of war in the real world as that was the impression i got from the summary and the cover(i am a moron :p ) .but i still d the story and the plot .and got over my disappointment fast .
i really don't have much to say except well yeah its another Tom Clancy novel. Marc Tiefenthal272 3

Zeer spannend. Vlot geschreven. Het wisselen van standpunt vermoeit soms. Qua plot zijn er enkele zwakke punten die de geloofwaardigheid ondermijnen. Hoe kunnen 3 terroristen zomaar een hoogwaardig uiterst beveiligd operatiecentrum in handen krijgen? Gewoon door een kledingstuk in de uitlaat te proppen ? Sushant Joshi62 4

Gets too complicated when trying to accurately describe middle eastern policies, which is a huge part of the book.
But overall still has the familiar, Op-Center feel, with nuggets of wisdom in form of quotes and actions by it's main protagonists, Hood and Rodgers.rereadable thrillers Silvia IglesiasAuthor 4 books27

Como siempre Tom Clancy, no defrauda en el manejo de los temas de espionaje y contraespionaje. Sus descripciones de lugar y personajes son certeras, la trama es compleja porque no se deja a ningún personaje sin desarrollar en sus antecedentes y perfil. Sólida e interesante.

Fred KleinAuthor 1 book2

I can't believe Clancey had anything to do with this book. Its characters were stupid and the government was stupid. If this is what our intelligence community is then heaven help us. Of course, it might explain 9/11. Anthony Messina534 10

Another one down. A little different than some of the others with Mike Rodgers' story arc. Should be interesting to see how he deals with the repercussions in the next one. Carlos Mancheno 131 6

Me gustó mucho TR64 2

Not the best book in the series, but not terrible.2019 Adrian Ramos175 3

Great story but narration sucked. Monotone voice made it painful to get through. clancy Barbara132

pretty exciting book. this was the first book that I read of the Op Center series, but I was able to keep up. I probably would have enjoyed it more if I had read 1-3 first, though. David62

Read this in paperback. Another great book in the saga of Op Center.op-center Mike Grady251 2

Slow start, quick ending. Still not entirely sure what I thought if this book.2020s Paschalis5,051 Want to read

elibraryelibrary Gil Smolinski30 66

Not my favorite of this series. Still an interesting book and worth reading if you intend to read the whole series. Full review here: https://smolinskiblog.co/2020/09/30/o... Tom Clark2

Good read

Ha f a Good experience. Thought it a little to detailed describing so e events and characters. I would recommend it if you enjoy political and military action. Cheryl788 6

International intelligence and spies. Who doesn't this kind of stuff? Karen Harrison448

A great adventure. Chuck Roth11 15

Clancy is the best at the Spy Capers. Hal MillerAuthor 7 books1 follower

Enjoyable, but not up to Clancy's level. Kate14

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