Most Popular Books by Steve Pieczenik

From the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of Op-Center comes a different kind of law enforcement. In the year 2010, 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: Net Force®. Minor viruses are eating away at the Net Force computers. The e-mail shut-downs and flickering monitors are hardly emergencies—but they’ve been keeping the tech department hopping. Same with the sudden rash of time-consuming lawsuits. No one in Net Force has a moment to spare, which is exactly the way Mitchell Townsend Ames wants it. Because when the shadowy mastermind launches his master plan, he wants Net Force to be looking the other way…

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...

The eighth novel in Tom Clancy''s #1 New York Times bestselling Net Force series. Though the head of a major multinational corporation—and a key player in world affairs—Samuel Walker Cox has a past that few people know about. But that group is about to get bigger. A computer disk has fallen into the hands of the Net Force, outing the powerful American businessman as a former Russian spy. Cox is willing to see the world in ruins to protect his name. Lucky for the United States that Net Force is on the job—and is about to prove that no man is above the law.

Spain is a nation poised to suffer its worst internal strife in centuries. Certain well-placed Spanish diplomats sense it. Op-Center intelligence corroborates it. All the United States and Spain have to do is find a way to avert it. Before they can, an Op-Center representative is assassinated in Madrid on her way to a top secret meeting. Now all fears are confirmed. Someone very powerful wants another Spanish civil war--no matter what the cost.

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....

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.

Op-Center is the nation''s heart of intelligence and crisis management. Sometimes, it''s the only place our government can turn.

The bestselling Net Force thriller series, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik and written by Jerome Preisler, reveals the invisible battlefield where the war for global dominance is fought. In the wake of stunning terrorist attacks around the world, Net Force jumps into action. The president''s new cybersecurity agency homes in on a dangerous figure operating in the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains. And he''s ready to strike again, using the digital space to advance his destructive goals. But before Net Force can get boots on the ground, the master hacker and his cadre mount a devastating high-tech assault against the agency''s military threat-response unit. Has a Net Force insider turned traitor? The stakes are suddenly ratcheted higher when a global syndicate of black hat hackers and a newly belligerent Russia hatch an ambitious scheme to plunge the United States into a crippling war - one that will leave Moscow and its dark web allies supreme. Their attack protocol: to seize control of the internet and open the door for a modern nuclear Pearl Harbor...unless the men and women of Net Force can stop them.

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...

The Internet has become vital in protecting the world from terrorism and sabotage. The FBI''s Netforce Explorers is a group of computer freaks who help out when danger strikes. They discover a conspiracy within the virtual world of Sarxos - top players are finding themselves playing for their lives.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.