New Releases by Steve Pieczenik

The return of the cutting-edge thriller series NET FORCE, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. The number-one threat to our nation's security is in cyberspace. The new U.S. president wants to tackle the urgent problem head-on and launches a top-secret line of defense: Net Force. But before the organisation can be announced, the country is hit by an unprecedented, two-pronged terror attack. Not yet empowered by Congress nor embraced by a dubious intelligence community, still untested, unproven, and officially unnamed, Net Force's elite group of cyber-experts and field operatives must lead the fight against the ongoing waves of hacks while tracking down the mastermind. Their failure could mean global catastrophe. Success may lead them to become the highest-level security agency in the United States. A thriller that seems ripped-from-tomorrow's headlines, NET FORCE: DARK WEB relaunches one of the most prescient series at a time when cybersecurity is more vital than ever.

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.

When terrorists detonate bombs in sports stadiums around the country leaving men, women and children dead or mutilated, the President executes an emergency order to bring back Op-Center and thwart a renegade Saudi Prince with ambitions of controlling the world's oil supply by manipulating America into attacking Syria, launching a war against Iran, and igniting a sleeper cell to attack the American homeland.

The tenth novel in the Net Force series, Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon. Bypassing all safeguards, terrorists enter Fort Stephens, the newest high-tech Army base, and detonate a truck full of powerful explosives. Within hours, other bases are hit. Under attack, the Army calls in Net Force to help. Teaming up with Army intelligence and the National Guard, Net Force’s own crack troops struggle to track down who is behind the deadly attacks. But they are countered at every move by a cunning opponent who thinks just like one of their own.

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.

Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Call to Treason is yet another gripping addition to the bestselling series masterminded by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. The Op-Center's budget is slashed, leaving General Mike Rodgers in the market for a new job. When presidential candidiate Senator Donald Orr recruits Rodgers to act as his military advisor, it sounds like a perfect transition. There's just one problem. A spree of deaths may be tied to Orr's presidential run and Rodgers must decide whether to sign on or shut it down.

The latest, greatest, high-tech thrill ride for Tom Clancy's legion of young fans. The amateurs are beating the pros in this year's spatball playoffs-and some big bettors plan to lose a fortune. When they threaten a star player, the Net Force Explorers are called in to protect America's newest pastime.

A half-dead Singapore pirate is plucked from the Celebes Sea in the Western Pacific, setting off alarms halfway around the world in Washington, D.C. Traces of radiation are found on the man, causing Australian officials to call in Op-Center for a top-secret investigation of nuclear disposal sites. When an empty drum from a recent drop-off is discovered near where the pirate's ship was destroyed, the Op-Center team comes to a terrifying conclusion: A multinational corporation hired to dispose of nuclear waste is selling it instead-to a most unlikely terrorist...

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.

Mark Gridley's latest computer project - a program designed to protect online security by scanning for 'invisible' hackers - suddenly becomes very useful when his buddies, Dan Sanchez and Maj Green, are wrongly accused of accessing sensitive Net Force files and are suspended from the Net Force Explorers. It's crucial that Dan and Maj find a way to pierce the hacker's invisibility armour - but this hacker isn't afraid of killing to cover his tracks.

2011: Atlantic City is packed with tourists, but the holiday atmosphere ends when an unarmed man turns into a human wrecking ball, tearing a casino apart with his bare hands and throwing cops around like rag dolls. It takes two dozen 9mm rounds to put him down. Suddenly there's a new designer drug on the streets - a drug that can give you unbelievable strength and immunity from pain - and it's being sold via the Net from addresses that are virtually impossible to track. If Net Force can't break the producers' security and destroy the supply at source, the world could be in for an epidemic of violence that will be literally unstoppable...

Megan O'Malley's buddy, Burt Kamen, is having serious difficulties with his family. When Burt suddenly disappears, Megan is relieved to hear that he is at Breathing Space - a virtual 'refuge' run by a recognised charity that offers runaways a neutral space in which to talk with their families. But her relief is short lived when she discovers that the runaways are being secretly recruited as couriers by a ruthless criminal team - a team that views the couriers as disposable and who will stop at nothing to prevent Megan and her friends from ending their lucrative trade.

Charlie Davis is worried about his buddy, Rick. Rick's been hanging out in Deathworld - a punk virtual reality site - to get some space from his irritating parents. And disturbing numbers of Deathworld users have been committing suicide in high numbers. When Charlie asks Explorer, Mark Gridley, to hack into the medical records of the 'Angels of the Pit', they find curious similarities - similarities that suggest a merciless killer is offering a brutal form of retribution...

In the year 2000, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force. Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint Air Force--Navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability to drive half a country into madness using low frequency wave generation. Now the technology has fallen into the wrong hands--and testing has begun...

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!

To save a prominent scientist and his son from a corrupt government's agents, the Net Force Explorers embark on a terrifying virtual hunt for their enemies--before it's too late.

The techno-teens of the Net Force Explorers are just as smart as their adult counterparts when it comes to 21st century crimes and misdemeanors. Now, the Explorers must delve into cyberspace--and the secrets of the past--to prove their commander innocent of murder....

Leif, Matt and several of their friends win the right to compete in a virtual rocket design and space race contest sponsored by the most popular space-based holodrama on the entertainment nets. The grand prize is a trip to Hollywood to compete in the final round of the race and the chance to appear on the holodrama. The winners of that final round will get some of the coolest computer stuff available. But some of the contestants - especially the team fielded by a Balkan pariah state and supervised by a sinister adult 'chaperone' - are taking the competition too seriously. Leif and Matt end up lost in a deadly maze of dirty tricks, international espionage and the madness that is Hollywood.

It is 2011 and in the peaceful retirement village of Daru on the Chinese mainland, local police find themselves helpless when the elderly residents suddenly turn violently insane. Tests on the food and water reveal nothing and the Chinese government - along with the rest of the world - are left to ponder on the implications of this bizarre group-psychotic episode. It is only when Net Force discover a top secret defence project has been compromised that the horrifying truth begins to emerge, and unless they can track down the traitor in time, a potentially devastating new super-weapon could be let loose.

Alan Slaney, a brilliant fencing instructor, has designed the virtual reality fantasy realm of Latvinia. And when he asks his star pupil, Megan O'Malley, and her friends to help beta-test the sim, they love the thrilling character profiles the game-world provides. Until, that is, the fantasy becomes all too real. Latvinia is beginning to look less like a labour of love and more like the product of a dangerous obsession. Time is running short for the beta-testers: unless Megan can prevent reality submerging into the game-world, she and her friends may well be forced to assume their dual identities forever...

Maj Green's obsession with virtual reality flight simulators looks like it could be about to pay off. Her latest Striper program is the best she's ever designed - and she's hoping to interest a packager at the gaming exhibition she's attending. Until something extraordinary happens: putting the Striper through its paces in a final test-run, something appears in the sky that just shouldn't be there: a huge dragon breathing deadly fireballs. Suddenly Maj finds herself playing a very different game - a deadly contest against an evil genius who thinks nothing of killing to achieve his ends.

Andy Moore lost his father when he was just a small child. His father, a highly decorated Marine captain, died fighting in the South African War in 2014. A decade later, one of the kids at Andy's school claims that Andy's father wasn't a hero at all, that he released an illegal biological weapon that killed 5,000 civilians. The kid has evidence that seems to prove it but what nobody knows is that he hacked highly sensitive information from the South African government archives and doctored it to make Andy's dad look bad. And a slew of South African spies, willing to do anything up to and including murder, are about to descend on the school to get that information back...

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!!

In the year 2010, computers are the new superpower. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the New Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency with the FBI: the Net Force. Instructions on how to make a bomb...a list of every U.S. spy in the Euro-Asian theater...Someone with access to classified information is posting it on the Internet-and it's costing lives. Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is in the hot seat. Now, before a hostile Senate committee, he must justify the very existence of the Net Force. Meanwhile, a virus is unleashed that throws the federal financial systems into chaos. And the Net Force operatives must hunt the wily hacker through the twists and turns of cyberspace-down a path that leads them dangerously close to home...

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!

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!

By 2011 the Internet has become the world's central nervous system. If terrorists are going to subvert the new world order, this is where they will strike. Net Force is the new organisation to deter them - a team of highly trained operatives whose homeground is the Virtual Reality world of the Net, with the Net Force Strike Teams at the ready to take the battle into the realworld. When a top-secret cargo train carrying materials for Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme is destroyed by mercenaries, it's the first of a series of incidents in which supposedly bullet-proof encrypted information is stolen and deciphered. Someone, it seems, has got hold of a functioning quantum computer - a computer so powerful it has the potential to develop a consciousness. If Net Force don't track the perpetrator down, his demented scheme could re-draw the map of the world forever...

Terrorists are using the Internet to subvert the new world system.

Julio Cortez is a legend among his friends in the Net Force Explorers for his feats of derring-do in virtual flight simulators. But now he's in a real life or death dogfight. To get him out, the Explorers are going to have to break down the barrier between the real world and virtual reality.