Audio CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged CD Audiobook edition (2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 5556255016
ISBN-13: 978-5556255012
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 5 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
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In Tom Clancy's State of Siege, he places the tough decision of a mans family and a nations integrity. Paul Hood has quit his job at the Op- Center to spend more time with his wife and family. When he takes them on a trip to New York to see his daughter in a recital at the U.N., he didn't plan for what was about to come. A group of wealth greedy terrorists invade the U.N. building and taking many delegates and young musicians hostage, including Hood's daughter. He is now forced with the decision to stay and comfort his wife, or to rejoin the Op-Center and help get all the hostages, including his daughter out. Clancy's book was action packed from the very first chapter. Clancy intensifies the book with Paul Hood's decision of work or a life with his family. His daughter being a hostage poses to him a problem which he must solve. In order to solve it he must leave his wife and return the Op-Center. The clock is running and Hood faces the most important decision of his life. He sacrifices his wife and decides to save his daughter's life. He rejoins Op-Center and faces a new question of how to save his daughter and the delegates. Time is passing quickly and the bloodshed increases. The pressure is intense and Paul keeps his cool. He takes the stress and eventually makes the right decision and saves his daughter's life with the help of his co-workers at the Op-Center.
Review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Centre ‘State Of Siege’ by Jeff Rovin (author)Paul Hood the erstwhile head of The Op-Centre has resigned so that he can try and put his flailing personal life back on track. He leaves behind an organization with a impressive success ratio in all their endeavors to save the world. Yet even as his professional life shines his personal life is dismal. In a desperate bid to make amends, he takes his family for a trip to New York where his eldest daughter will be performing as part of a music ensemble’ at the United Nations. That is where all hell breaks loose as the venue is taken over by armed gunmen who will stop at nothing to get their demands met.Who are these men and what do they want? Set against a backdrop of diplomacy and international relations Hood turns to the true professionals who can help him in his hour of need ‘The Op-Centre’.In true Tom Clancy style the novel is a fast paced, electric read. The build-up is racy and the plot holds tight. The character of Hood is well sketched and aptly brings out his ambivalent feelings towards his marriage and his job. The scenarios of the working of the U.N are realistic as are the action sequences and the dynamics between the various protagonists in a hostage situation.If I had a gripe with the story it was that there was just too much background at times even though it was well researched and written. Yes, I do want to know something about the characters but two paragraphs would do just as well. I found myself skipping over all these background descriptions as they just became too detailed.Other than that a great book and that is why I have given it four stars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZikvWB48LCQPlease people with the money, if you buy a new book, include a used one in your shopping cart. That will help enormously in their storage, and it can help you too. At some places the price can’t lower to lesser a penny. Take a used book for a 0.01$ anywhere.It has many usage including, “Cash4Books.net”Recycle it or Burn it for survival heat. Use two books as spacers to raise your monitor because it’s always better to view at eye leveled to the center of your screen. Even better, send it to donation, any library would take it, or the third world too.Do not fear a book because it has no teeth!!When you open your used book, wear gloves if you have to, then you’ll realize, “This book ain’t that bad after all.”Good read and peace!!- Ricky
In this, the sixth Op-Center book, Jeff Rovin is thanked for his "creative ideas and invaluable contribution to the preparation of the manuscript". This is generally taken to mean that Mr. Rovin is the manuscript author. Unfortunately, Mr. Rovin, though having a couple of other book titles to his credit, most certainly has none of Tom Clancy's ability with words.The Op-Center series started in 1995 as a sound germ of an idea which owed much of its success to genuine imput from Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. Now, at book six, and with Clancy and Pieczenik standing quietly in the shadows with their palms outstretched for whatever royalties they can squeeze from this series without having to do any work, the books are reaching new lows.State of Siege is wooden and difficult to work through. The story might have had real potential in a proper Clancy novel. It could have been a real killer if thought out and written intelligently. Unfortunately, passing it over to a ghost called Rovin was the easiest way to doom the story to failure.If Tom Clancy insists on putting his name to rubbish like this (albeit if only to rake in some extra lucre) then he MUST take some responsibility for its content. It saddens me to have to remind him, but the money he is putting in his pockets from poorly-conceived "novels" like this is money that honest working folk have stumped out because he has placed his name on the cover of the book.SHAME ON YOU TC
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