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

Tom Clancy

Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. is an American author, best known for his technically detailed espionage, military science, and techno thriller storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War, along with video games on which he did not work, but which bear his name for licensing and...

Plot introduction

The mobile Regional Operations Center (ROC) in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 investigates a dam blown up by Kurdish

Kurdish

Kurdish may refer to:*The Kurdish people*The Kurdish language*The Kurdish alphabet*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:*Iranian Kurdistan*Iraqi Kurdistan*Turkish Kurdistan*Syrian Kurdistan*History of the Kurdish people...

 terrorists. The ROC is later taken hostage by the Kurdish terrorists who blew the dam.

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 in.
• Volatility of Middle-East region, both politically 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, but after the establishment of an Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan or Kurdistan Region is an autonomous region of Iraq. It borders Iran to the east, Turkey to the north, Syria to the west and the rest of Iraq to the south. The regional capital is Arbil, known in Kurdish as Hewlêr...

 in Iraq from the aftermath of the Gulf War

Gulf War

The Persian Gulf War , commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.The war is also known under other names, such as the First Gulf...

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