ACTS OF WAR

'''Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War''' is a technothriller by Jeff Rovin

Contents

Plot introduction

Characters in "Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War"

Major themes

Release details

Plot introduction

The mobile Regional Operations Center (ROC) in Turkey investigates a dam blown up by Kurdish terrorists.

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 on.

★ Volitility of Middle-East region, both politcially 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.