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Acts of War

Tom Clancy
Contents (91)
  1. Op-Center
  2. Tom Clancy & Steve Pieczenick
  3. CHAPTER ONE
  4. CHAPTER TWO
  5. CHAPTER THREE
  6. CHAPTER FOUR
  7. CHAPTER FIVE
  8. CHAPTER SIX
  9. CHAPTER SEVEN
  10. CHAPTER EIGHT
  11. CHAPTER NINE
  12. CHAPTER TEN
  13. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  14. CHAPTER TWELVE
  15. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  16. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  18. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  20. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  21. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  22. CHAPTER TWENTY
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  32. CHAPTER THIRTY
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  42. CHAPTER FORTY
  43. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  44. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  52. CHAPTER FIFTY
  53. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  54. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  55. CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
  56. CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
  57. CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
  58. CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
  59. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
  60. CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
  61. CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
  62. CHAPTER SIXTY
  63. CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
  64. CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
  65. CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
  66. CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
  67. CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
  68. CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX
  69. CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN
  70. CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT
  71. CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
  72. CHAPTER SEVENTY
  73. CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
  74. CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO
  75. CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE
  76. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOUR
  77. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE
  78. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
  79. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN
  80. CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT
  81. CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE
  82. CHAPTER EIGHTY
  83. CHAPTER EIGHTY-ONE
  84. CHAPTER EIGHTY-TWO
  85. CHAPTER EIGHTY-THREE
  86. CHAPTER EIGHTY-FOUR
  87. CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVE
  88. CHAPTER EIGHTY-SIX
  89. CHAPTER EIGHTY-SEVEN
  90. CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHT
  91. THE END

Op-Center

by

Tom Clancy & Steve Pieczenick

CHAPTER ONE

Tuesday, 4:10 P.M., Seoul

Gregory Donald took a sip of scotch and looked across the crowded bar.

"Do you ever find yourself thinking back, Kim? I don't mean to this morning or last week, but-- way back?"

Kim Hwan, Deputy Director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, used a red stirring straw to poke at the slice of lemon floating in his Diet Coke. "To me, Greg, this morning is way back. Especially on days like these. What I wouldn't give to be on a fishing boat with my uncle Pak in Yangyang."

Donald laughed. "Is he still as feisty as he used to be?"

"Feistier. Remember how he used to have two fishing boats? Well, he got rid of one. Said he couldn't stand having a partner. But sometimes I'd rather be fighting fish and storms than bureaucrats. You remember what it was like." From the corner of his eye, Hwan watched as two men sitting beside him paid their tab and left.

Donald nodded. "I remember. That's why I got out."

Hwan leaned closer, looked around. His eyes narrowed, and his clean-cut features took on a conspiratorial edge. "I didn't want to say anything while the Seoul Press editors were sitting here, but do you realize they've actually grounded my helicopters for today?"

Donald's brow arched with surprise. "Are they crazy?"

"Worse. Reckless. The press monkeys said choppers crisscrossing overhead would make too much noise and ruin the sound bites. So if anything happens, there's no aerial recon."

Donald finished his scotch, then reached into the side pocket of his tweed jacket. "It's upsetting, but it's like everywhere else, Kim. The marketers have taken over from the talent. It's that way in intelligence work, government, even at the Friendship Society. No one just jumps in the pool anymore. Everything's got to be studied and evaluated until your initiative is colder than Custer."

Hwan shook his head slowly. "I was disappointed when you quit to join the dip corps, but you were smart. Forget about improving the way the agency does business: I spend most of my time fighting just to maintain the status quo."

"But no one does it better."

Hwan smiled. "Because I love the agency, right?"

Donald nodded. He had withdrawn his Block meerschaum pipe and a packet of Balkan Sobranie tobacco. "Tell me-- are you expecting any trouble today?"

"We've had warnings from the usual list of radicals, revolutionaries, and lunatics, but we know who and where they are and are watching them. They're like the kooks who call in to Howard Stern show after show. Same cant, different day. But they're mostly talk."

Donald's brow arched again as he tapped in a pinch of tobacco. "You get Howard Stern?"

Hwan finished his soda. "No. I heard bootleg tapes when we cracked a pirate ring last week. Come on, Greg, you know this country. The government thinks Oprah is too risqué most of the time."

Donald laughed, and as Hwan turned and said something to the bartender, his blue eyes once again moved slowly across the dark room.