For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn.

"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author and master of the technothriller returns with his All-Star team. There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan"--

Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark, newly appointed head of an international anti-terrorism task force, begins to see a pattern in a rash of seemingly separate episodes that leads to the discovery of a group of terrorists whose cunning and skill threatens to alter the entire fabric of life on Earth.

In the wake of an assassination attempt on the SVR (former KGB) chairman, newly elected U.S. president Jack Ryan puts black ops specialist John Clark on the alert, only to have things complicated by dangerous forces in China.

Op-Center: A beating heart of surveillance, intelligence, and defensive technology, run by a crack team of operatives both within its own walls and out in the field. Nothing could prepare director Paul Hood and his Op-Center team for what they are about to uncover--a very real, very frightening power that could unleash new players in a new Cold War.