Jeff Rovin Libri

Nella Germania unificata i nazisti del Duemila scatenano disordine e caos. L'intero pianeta corre il rischio di soccombere a una nuova catastrofe. Solo Op-Center può sventare il progetto criminale.

The Striker team is sent in to capture an Islamic cleric who is stirring up a rebellion in the Indian government and gets caught up in a full-scale war.

Career of Charlton Heston.

A guide to more than one thousand beasts, specters, and other monsters, from the Bible's Leviathan to Hollywood's Alien, arranged alphabetically and cross-referenced by subject

After years of fending off challenges from the world's most dangerous terrorists, Op-Centre has been brought to heel by the US Congress. A short-sighted committee has cut Paul Hood's budget, and the first victim is his friend Mike Rodgers. But General Rodgers may not be looking for work for very long. Dynamic Senator Donald Orr is making a run for President at the head of his own third party. Running on a platform of extreme isolationism, Orr presents a real challenge to the two-party system, and he needs a strong military advisor to make his team complete. The problem is that Orr may be involved in more than just ordinary political intrigue. The bodies of two murdered millionaires may be tied into the new party, and Op-Centre is seeking the killer.

The explosion of a Chinese freighter–carrying illegal workers–in Charleston Harbor is the first sign that someone is capping Chinese interests abroad. After explosions in South Africa and Taipei, Op-Center roots out the cause: warring factions in the Chinese government. But still reeling from budget cuts and an almost devastating attack by an electromagnetic pulse explosion, Op-Center itself sustains a third hit: the removal of Commander Paul Hood, replaced by a three-star general from the Army. Op-Center is now under the control of the Pentagon. Hood's own future exists at the whim of the new President. And the world braces for more attacks….

In this thrilling new installment in bestseller Ralph Compton's The Gunfighter series, a man wakes with no memory of who he is—or why someone wants him dead. A gunman without a gun wakes up in Death Valley. He has no recollection of how he got there, or even his own name. He's a dead man walking until his luck turns. He stumbles upon the homestead of a widow and her young son who nurse him back to health. But in the desert good deeds come at a cost. The amnesiac is being trailed by hard men who want answers he doesn't have. First a group of gunslingers, then a troop of soldiers threaten the innocent family. Their only hope of rescue is the very man who got them in this predicament. But how can he help them when he doesn't even know who he is? At least the men who want to kill him seem to know his name. Maybe they'll put it on his gravestone.

The B-3 is one of the US Air Force's most high-tech bombers, practically terrorist-proof, manned only by their finest pilots, until one night it is forced down in the middle of the Utah desert, and its lethal nuclear warheads seized by terrorists.

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-Centre investigates – and finds 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-Centre must reinvent itself – and head straight into the crossfire of an African war.A powerful profile of America's defence, intelligence and crisis management technology, Tom Clancy's Op-Centre is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik – inspiring this and other gripping novels.

"When the launch of [a] powerful new hypersonic missile ends in destruction, the Chinese government needs someone to blame. Was it a failure of engineering, or sabotage? The chief engineer on the project, Dr. Yang Dáayâou, is targeted as the scapegoat and arrested--unable to help his family as they are hunted down by the military. Op-Center's Lt. Grace Lee is sent to China on a solo reconnaissance mission, but when she sees an opportunity to free the imprisoned scientist, she seizes it. With Lt. Lee on the run and the Chinese military at her heels, Director Chase Williams sends the rest of Op-Center to Mongolia as an extraction team"--

Op-Center è il nome in codice di una nuova unità governativa di Washington che opera in semiclandestinità in tutte le missioni considerate molto pericolose. Il centro utilizza gli ultimi ritrovati tecnici in fatto di guerra elettronica e batteriologica, le nuove frontiere su cui oggi si combatterebbe un conflitto mondiale. Sotto la guida di Paul Hood, Op-Center entra in azione quando una bomba provoca una strage durante un comizio politico e la pace tra le due Coree inizia a vacillare. I commandos vengono mandati in Corea, ma Matt Stoll, il responsabile dei computer del centro, scopre che un virus li ha resi inutilizzabili. In Corea, il generale che guida i ribelli, opera per scatenare la terza guerra mondiale. La guerra sarà scongiurata, ma fino a quando?

It's a mission that only Striker - the military arm of Op-Center - can handle: capture an Islamic cleric who is stirring up a rebellion against the Indian government. But when the border between India and Pakistan erupts, the Striker team gets caught in the crossfire. Now America's most proficient covert team is trapped in a full-fledged war. Their fate rests in the hands of a devious double agent whose own agenda is unknown - a man who could just as easily sell them out as set them free...

Durante una cena alla Casa Bianca, il presidente ha uno strano comportamento e la first lady rivela a Paul Hood, capo del segretissimo OP-Center e suo vecchio amico, che teme per la sanità mentale del marito. Intanto a Baku, capitale dell'Azerbaigian e importantissimo centro petrolifero del Caspio, un pericoloso terrorista ha ucciso due agenti della CIA e ha scatenato un attacco contro una piattaforma petrolifera iraniana, facendo salire alle stelle la tensione fra Iran, Azerbaigian e Russia. Ma l'obiettivo e le menti dell'attacco si trovano a Washington e solo Paul Hood e le tecnologie e il coraggio degli uomini di Op-Center potranno sventare il colpo di stato che minaccia l'America.

La Russia del dopo Eltsin è nel caos. Il ministro degli Interni, che sogna di ricostruire l'impero sovietico, si allea con i nazionalisti di destra e con uno spietato boss del crimine. Dopo un attentato di matrice russa compiuto a Manhattan, l'uccisione di una spia inglese e una bomba contro la sede di un giornale polacco, il presidente USA mette in azione Op-Center, l'organizzazione top-secret. Ma anche la Russia ha il suo Op-Center: e mentre da Mosca a Washington a San Pietroburgo le due unità gemelle si scontrano in un singolare duello, il mondo rischia di esplodere...

A treasure trove of the funniest, most complete and best-organized adult humor you will ever find.Whether you are looking for sparkling material for a formal dinner speech or crass comments to spice up a friendly poker game, here are more than 250 subjects, ranging from the delightfully droll to the truly tasteless. And to make your search easier, all are arranged alphabetically and cross-referenced to related jokes in other categories. Among the topics skewered in this rich collection are baseball, bathrooms, yuppies, doctors, hillbillies, hospitals, lawyers, mothers-in-law, sex, singles, small towns, weddings, writers, and every other humor-worthy theme in contemporary society.

After an intelligence failure at Op-Center results in a major terrorist attack, director Chase Williams radically transforms the agency into a groundbreaking mobile strike force in Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Sting of the Wasp.It's a beautiful day in Manhattan as excited tourists board the floating Air & Space Museum on the USS Intrepid--until a horrible explosion rips across the flight deck, showering the body parts of innocent people everywhere. The perpetrator is a Middle Eastern mastermind whose previous terrorism plot was foiled at the last minute by Op-Center."Military action fans will be rewarded." --Publishers WeeklyBack in Washington, Chase Williams has been put in charge of a brand-new, top-secret organization known only as Black Wasp. Its members, all chosen for their unique set of specialized black-ops skills--martial arts expert Lieutenant Grace Lee, sharpshooter Lance Corporal Jaz Rivette, and JAG attorney and criminologist Major Hamilton Breen--have been assigned to bring the terrorist to justice. But when a terrifying conspiracy involving the creation of a new Islamic State is uncovered, Chase and his team become America's only line of defense against a ruthless enemy bent on global destruction."Thriller addicts like me devour every Op-Center tale...highly recommended." --Stephen Coonts

Turchia. I terroristi curdi hanno fatto saltare una grande diga sul fiume Eufrate mettendo drammaticamente in crisi le riserve idriche della regione. Non un gesto di follia ma la prima fase di un piano attentamente preordinato e ambizioso: scatenare un conflitto in Medio Oriente per ottenere l'indipendenza al tavolo dei negoziati. Intanto, sempre in territorio turco, si ? installata una nuova sezione dell'Op-Center denominata ROC, un'unit? mobile di sorveglianza elettronica dotata di sofisticate apparecchiature in grado di controllare ogni mossa dei ribelli. Ma i curdi si rivelano pi? agguerriti di quanto ci si potesse aspettare e mettono a segno un'azione audace sequestrando l'automezzo americano e catturando il suo equipaggio. I prigionieri vengono portati nella base libanese dei terroristi, in una valle inaccessibile. Il generale Mike Rodgers, vicedirettore dell'Op-Center, viene torturato. E' un evento gravissimo, le cui conseguenze potrebbero essere catastrofiche.

In Jeff Rovin's Tom Clancy's Op-Center: God of War, after the devastating outbreak of a killer super virus, the Black Wasp Team must prevent America's enemies from gaining access to the most dangerous weapon the world has ever seen. The passengers and crew on an Airbus en route to Australia suddenly begin coughing up blood and hemorrhaging violently as the plane plunges to the ground. There are no survivors. A luxury yacht in the South Indian Sea blows up, and a lone woman escapes the contagion that has inexplicably killed everyone else on the boat. A helicopter whose occupants have been stricken by an unknown illness crashes into a bridge in South Africa, killing motorists and pedestrians. The world is facing a devastating bio-terror event, and a game of brinksmanship gets underway as the major powers jockey for position: China sends a naval flotilla to seek the source of the plague and find a way to weaponize it, while Russia maneuvers quietly on the sidelines to seize the deadly prize in its quest to regain an empire. Back in Washington D.C., Chase Williams and his top-secret Black Wasp special ops team must find out who is behind these deadly attacks before war is unleashed—and millions of innocent lives are lost.

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A Vision of Fire is the thrilling science fiction debut of actress Gillian Anderson, best known for her role as Scully on The X-Files with David Duchovny and for The Fall. Renowned child psychologist Caitlin O'Hara is a single mum trying to juggle her job, her son, and a lacklustre love life. Her world is suddenly upturned when Maanik, the daughter of India's ambassador to the United Nations, starts having violent visions. Maanik's parents are sure that her fits have something to do with the recent assassination attempt on her father - a shooting that has escalated nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan to dangerous levels - but when children start having similar outbursts around the world, Caitlin begins to think that there's a stranger force at work ...

Traces, in text and stills, the development of science fiction and fantasy-horror movies, from the 1930s to the 1970s, commenting on outstanding, representative, and popular individual films

Gabe Walker war einst der Leiter eines Rettungsteams in den Rocky Mountains. Doch er verlor seinen Mut, nachdem ein Amateurbergsteiger aus seinem Griff rutschte und zu Tode stürzte. Acht Monate später kehrt Gabe in die Berge zurück, um sich endgültig zu verabschieden.

The Cold War is over. And chaos is setting in. The new President of Russia is trying to create a 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. Op-Center, the newly-founded but highly successful crisis management 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 and represents everything Op-Center stands for. Two rival Op-Centers, virtual mirror images of each other. But if this mirror cracks, it'll be more than seven years of bad luck . . .

Wanneer een conflict dreigt uit te groeien tot een wereldcrisis, komt Op-Center in actie. In Contra-Commando wordt het team geconfronteerd met de chaos in het Rusland van nu. Tegengewerkt door criminele en reactionaire machtsblokken - de meedogenloze mafia, de ultrarechtse nationalisten en de neo-tsaristen - tracht de Russische president een nieuwe democratische orde op te bouwen. Ter bestrijding van deze machtige krachten wordt het Op-Center-team ingezet. Een zware taak, temeer daar al snel blijkt dat deze zelfde krachten over een goed georganiseerde, nietsontziende contra-organisatie beschikken...

Con ocasión del 48 cumpleaños de Nicholas Van Orton, un empresario de éxito, su hermano Conrad le regala una suscripción para un club muy especial cuyo principal atractivo es participar en un emocionante juego. Nicholas acepta, pero el juego no es nada divertido: para empezar amenaza su vida, invade su casa y su empresa, controla sus movimientos y sus finanzas. Al principio lo desconcierta, pero pronto lo aterroriza. Nicholas quiere salirse pero no sabe como hacerlo. Conrad admite que él tampoco lo ha conseguido y que, en realidad, le obligaron a suscribir a Nicholas... Una historia escalofriante, protagonizada por Michael Douglas y Sean Penn, y dirigida por el creador de Seven.

Bizarros ataques sacuden Nueva York: personas sin hogar son asesinadas en un túnel del metro, inocentes paseantes son desmembrados y personas son atacadas mortalmente en ascensores. Millones de murciélagos han invadido Manhattan en busca de sangre fresca. La Dra. Nancy Joyce, una joven atractiva que trabaja en el Museo de Historia Natural y es experta en murciélagos, es solicitada por el áspero inspector Robert Gentry para ayudar. Pronto descubren que los líderes de las masacres son dos murciélagos monstruosos con una envergadura increíble.

Wanneer een groep Koerdische terroristen een dam in Turkije opblaast in de hoop daarmee Syrië te destabiliseren en een conflict in het Midden-Oosten te ontketenen, grijpt een supergeheime Amerikaanse interventiemacht in.

Que peut-on offrir à l'homme qui a déjà tout ? Une participation au " Jeu " ! C'est le cadeau d'anniversaire que Nicholas Van Orton vient de recevoir de son jeune frère...Un cadeau empoisonné car, en quoi consiste ce mystérieux " jeu " dont il sait seulement qu'il va bientôt commencer ? Très vite, Nicholas se retrouve traqué. On lui fournit bien quelques indices, mais il ne comprend pas à quoi ils correspondent. Puis les gens en qui il a le plus confiance deviennent... différents. Ils l'évitent, lui mentent, le manipulent, jusqu'à ce qu'il ait le sentiment que sa vie est menacée... Cette fois, le jeu a vraiment commencé ! Mais est-ce bien un jeu ? Ou quelque piège diabolique ? Un thriller haletant, mis en scène par David Fincher, le réalisateur de "Seven" avec Michael Douglas et Sean Penn.

Poco dopo che il gruppo Striker ha salvato un veicolo spia dell'Operative Center nelle drammatiche circostanze della valle di Bikáa, il centro si trova ad affrontare un'altra crisi. La Spagna è minacciata di disgregazione a causa del piano di un alto ufficiale, generale dell'esercito spagnolo, di scatenare scontri tra vari gruppi etnici per poi presentarsi come "unificatore" del paese. La violenza esplode con l'esplosione di uno yacht, dove si erano riuniti importanti rappresentanti dell'industria; un attentato contro una diplomatica americana ha lo scopo di dissuadere gli Stati Uniti dall'intervenire. Tuttavia, gli USA non possono permettere l'indebolimento della Spagna, parte della NATO, e inviano il gruppo d'intervento Striker, che si trova costretto ad eliminare il generale. L'Operative Center agisce nell'ombra, operando in modo rapido ed efficace, monitorando i punti nevralgici degli eventi mondiali e intervenendo dove la fragile equilibri di pace e stabilità è minacciata.

Wanneer - waar dan ook ter wereld - een conflict dreigt uit te groeien tot een wereldcrisis, komt Op-Center in actie. Onder zenuwslopende omstandigheden coördineert directeur Paul Hood de interactie tussen het computercentrum en het veldteam. Militaire bliksemacties ter plekke, geregistreerd door de meest geavanceerde computertechnologie ter wereld.

Psychoterapeutka Sára žije sama s matkou v malém městečku Delwood, které skrývá pod zdánlivě poklidným povrchem mnohá tajemství. Ta se týkají soukromých životů obyvatel města a Sára může nahlížet do jejich nitra a slyšet to, co jiným zůstává skryto. Mezi její pacienty patří i dospívající Frederik, jehož problémy jsou hlubší a je za nimi něco víc než snaha prvoplánově šokovat. Vytvořil si svůj vlastní mystický svět, v němž mohou hrát roli tajemné síly i vztahy, které se vymykají z běžných konvencí. Snaha odkrýt Frederikovo tajemství vede k tomu, že Sára je vtažena do složité hry, v níž bude bojovat o svou profesní čest i vlastní duši se silami, jejichž existenci by ve své racionální mysli nebyla schopna připustit.

Een gloednieuwe Amerikaanse onderzeeër wordt in het zuidpoolgebied geramd door een Chinese onderzeeër; een speciaal interventieteam wordt vanuit de Verenigde Staten ingezet.