Best Selling Books by Steve Pieczenik

The fourth volume in a series of high-tech thrillers centred on the National Crisis Management Centre in Washington.

Andy Moore never knew his father, who was killed during the South African War ten years ago and proclaimed a hero. But now a rival student has revealed information that brands Andy''s father as the perpetrator of a massacre. As he struggles to find the truth about his father, bad things start happening at his school--things that put every student there at risk. It''s clear that Andy isn''t the only one interested in what really happened in South Africa. And if Andy doesn''t figure it out soon, it might just be too late...for everybody!!

Here comes a Clancy first: a new series of novels for young adults starring a team of troubleshooting teens--the Net Force Explorers--who know more about cutting edge technology than their teachers!

When the USS Milwaukee is attacked by the North Koreans, the Op-Center initiates a sensitive operation to rescue the survivors, a mission made more crucial following the discovery of a secret pact between China and North Korea.

Here comes a Clancy first: a new series of novels for young adults starring a team of troubleshooting teens--the Net Force Explorers--who know more about cutting edge technology than their teachers!

#1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Tom Clancy delivers an all-new, original novel, Op Center: Divide and Conquer.Shadowy elements within the State Department secretly cause tensions to flare between Iran and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. They hope to start a shooting war to increase their own power and profit.At the same time, the conspirators decide to up the ante - by deposing the president of the United States. In a treacherous scheme, they convince the president that he is mentally unstable, and a silent coup d''etat is within their reach.Now, Paul Hood and the members of Op-Center must race against the clock to prevent the outbreak of war, save the honor of the president - and expose the traitors.

America may seem safe from within. But far beyond its borders a new enemy is rising: a global organization that aims to destroy the country''s cybersecurity and wreak havoc on the nation. The President has tasked the new intelligence agency, Net Force, to sniff out and put an end to these threats. Their investigation reveals a plan that could trigger a war, one that will leave the U.S. devastated. Net Force must race to root out the source of the attack and discover who really is behind them. Print run 10,000.

The bestselling Net Force thriller series, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik and written by Jerome Preisler, reveals the invisible battlefield where the war for global dominance is fought. In the wake of stunning terrorist attacks around the world, Net Force jumps into action. The president''s new cybersecurity agency homes in on a dangerous figure operating in the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains. And he''s ready to strike again, using the digital space to advance his destructive goals. But before Net Force can get boots on the ground, the master hacker and his cadre mount a devastating high-tech assault against the agency''s military threat-response unit. Has a Net Force insider turned traitor? The stakes are suddenly ratcheted higher when a global syndicate of black hat hackers and a newly belligerent Russia hatch an ambitious scheme to plunge the United States into a crippling war - one that will leave Moscow and its dark web allies supreme. Their attack protocol: to seize control of the internet and open the door for a modern nuclear Pearl Harbor...unless the men and women of Net Force can stop them.

The second volume in the bestselling series of high-tech, high-action thrillers created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik - repackaged in a stunning new-look cover. In Tom Clancy''s Op-Centre, bestselling author Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, novelist and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, have created an astonishingly popular thriller series, which has already sold over 1 million HarperCollins paperbacks. Now the first three volumes are being repackaged to coincide with the publication of the latest volume in the series, Acts of War. In this second volume, the new President of Russia is trying to create a new democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian Mafia, the right-wing nationalists and those nefarious forces that will do whatever it takes to return Russia to the days of the Czar. The Op-Centre team begins a race against the clock and against the hardliners. Their task is made even more difficult by the discovery of a Russian counterpart... but this one''s controlled by those same repressive hardliners.

A computer game convention becomes a hunting ground when the monsters from a new game escape--and attack the Net Force Explorers in virtual reality!

Driven by greed, a group of U.N. peacekeeping soldiers becomes involved in activities on the wrong side of the law. When their tour of duty ends, the mayhem begins. Calling themselves the "Keepers," the rogue soldiers -- outfitted with stolen U.N. arms and ammunition -- devise a shocking scheme to get the world''s attention... Meanwhile, Op-Center head Paul Hood has cleared out his desk. But his retirement is short-lived. Demanding one hundred million dollars in ransom, the Keepers have taken over the U.N. -- where ambassadors from ten nations have gathered for a gala function at which Hood''s daughter will perform. This time the Keepers have made it personal. And the Op-Center forces will strike with deadly vengeance...

Spain is a nation poised to suffer its worst internal strife in centuries. Certain well-placed Spanish diplomats sense it. Op-Center intelligence corroborates it. All the United States and Spain have to do is find a way to avert it. Before they can, an Op-Center representative is assassinated in Madrid on her way to a top secret meeting. Now all fears are confirmed. Someone very powerful wants another Spanish civil war--no matter what the cost.

The explosion of a Chinese freighter in Charleston Harbor is the first sign that someone is capping Chinese interests abroad. Now under the control of the Pentagon, Op-Center is unsure of its own future-but must root out the cause of the attacks before the entire world is affected.

The Ops-Center team faces untold chaos on a mission in Africa in the ninth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series created by Tom Clancy and former Department of State official Steve Pieczenik. On the surface it seems a simple case: a group of African militiamen have kidnapped a priest and ordered all Catholic missionaries to leave the nation of Botswana. But the Vatican thinks otherwise. At its urging, Op-Center investigates—and finds out that the real purpose of the crime is a plan by outside forces to destabilize the government and seize the nation’s diamond mines. With its military team, Striker, out of commission, Op-Center must reinvent itself—and head straight into the crossfire of an African war.

In the year 2025 the Internet practically runs the world, and its virtual reality webwork has to be policed by Net Force to prevent computer-terrorists from sabotaging it. But sometimes they need help. Which is where the Net Force Explorers come in, the young people''s auxiliary for computer whizz-kids who have made it through a tough training programme. SAFE HOUSE is the tenth in Tom Clancy''s bestselling Net Force Explorers series.

Pieczenik (Blood Heat) is a world-famous international crisis manager, hostage negotiator, political psychiatrist, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State. Now his insider knowledge and experience come together in a thrilling political novel scheduled to be a major motion picture from Paramount.