2. Hidden Agendas

✍ Scribed by Created by Tom Clancy; Steve Pieczenik

• Book ID: 107083662
• Publisher: New York : Berkley, c1998.
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 185 KB
• Series: Net Force 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780425161722

✦ Synopsis

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review

Years ago, who would have thought that the most powerful computers would one day be household appliances capable of the most technical espionage? With the Internet now providing such possibilities, Tom Clancy, block-busting author of high-tech thrillers, explores this with Net Force. Set in 2010, The Internet has become the planet's central nervous system. This is very appealing for terrorists and in response there is Net Force: highly trained operatives who police the twin worlds of reality and virtual reality. In Hidden Agendas , Louisiana's state capitol building is destroyed using a chemical weapons formula stolen from the Net. The team has to deal with online assaults on the world's banks, murder and possibly the most daring robbery in history. While this series does not have the grand intricacy and epic stance of the Jack Ryan novels, there is no denying that Clancy has a talent for high-tension thrillers and intricate descriptions of high-tech hardware. Obviously aimed at a wider age group, this is an effective thriller with a genuinely interesting premise. Danny Graydon

Product Description

The Net Force are facing their toughest challenge yet. It begins when Louisiana's state capitol building is destroyed using a top-secret chemical weapons formula swiped from the Net. If Net Force can't solve the deadly puzzle, then someone is going to get away with the most daring robbery ever.

About the Author

Tom Clancy is one of the biggest bestselling selling authors in the world.

From Publishers Weekly

Set in a pastoral Minnesota small town, Hoag's thriller has an ill-matched pair of detectives trying to trace a sadistic kidnapper.
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From Library Journal

This well-crafted romantic suspense novel by the author of Lucky's Lady (Bantam, 1992) is a tautly written account of life in a small Minnesota town. Megan O'Malley, the first female field officer of the state's criminal investigation bureau, is forced into a close working relationship with Mitch Holt, the town's police chief, when a child goes missing. Against the background of a multijurisdictional criminal investigation, dialog and plot flow smoothly, and elements of romantic tension that serve to define the characters further are seamlessly inserted into the basic mystery/suspense theme. Current news topics, such as the presence of known pedophiles in a community and the problems of childcare in homes with two working parents, help fuel important subplots. The investigatory techniques are all presented intelligently and provide a strong framework for this gripping suspense tale. Highly recommended for current fiction collections.
Erna Chamberlain, SUNY at Binghamton
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