Tom Clancy’s Op-Centre - The Black Order
Author: Jeff Rovin
Publisher: St Martin Griffin NY
ISBN: 9781250222343
In this action-packed thriller in the New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, America's elite task force must take down a group of ruthless domestic terrorists determined to paralyse the country through acts of violence. They are known as the Black Order, a motley group of self-proclaimed patriots and survivalists who refuse to surrender their values and beliefs to the left-leaning cultural and progressive forces threatening their nation. Comprising military veterans and high-tech specialists, they've begun a savage war ranging from public assassinations of politicians and celebrities to high-profile bombings. These acts of violence are carried out spontaneously, without warning or mercy. And the US government is unable to fight back, fearing more repercussions.
The Black Order wants nothing less than complete capitulation from the US government, giving them a free rein to make their ideologies the law of the land.
Helpless, out-going President Wyatt Midkiff together with his Deputy Chief of Staff Matt Berry, decide to engage the Op-Centres Black Wasp, a skilled team of military operatives answerable only to the President, to help stop the carnage.
The Black Wasp is headed by Admiral Chase William and the group include Major Hamilton Breen, a former professor at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center; Lieutenant Grace Lee of the US Army Special Operations Command, Airborne, and Marine; and Marine Air Ground Task Force sharpshooter Lance Corporal Jaz Rivette.
But even as Williams and his agents force the militant revolutionists - headed by a former army Ranger Burton Stroud who also runs a successful home security business and volunteers at the Free Library of Philadelphia - on the run, the Black Order possesses a weapon of mass destruction that they will not hesitate to unleash against millions of innocent civilians. Apparently, Stroud has been aggrieved by perceived unfair treatment to his family and the loss of his mother to fire at an early age and this simmering anger forced him to establish the Black Order.
The Black Order has a merciless killer Christopher Sarno backed by a former Delta Force lieutenant, Dee Dee Allen; former Marines Mark Phipotts; an electrical engineering student at the University of Pennsylvania, Eiji Honda, and assassin Gray Kirby. They are all supported in their missions by a tech nerd Jackson Poole, who operates the sophisticated electronic setup in the basement of Stroud Safe at Home office.
In a race against time to defuse the crisis, Black Wasp must summon all available help it can get to out-smart its opponent. Will William and his team succeed in foiling the Black Order’s deadly mission to paralyse the country through a series of extreme acts of violence?
Jeff Rovin manages to keep the excitement rolling through the pages in this thriller that combines politics, suspense and action till the explosive climax.
