Tom Clancy's Net Force: Changing of the Guard

by Steve Perry, Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425193764
• ISBN13: 9780425193761
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.8" x 6.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Quality control needs improvement

It is an interesting story but there are some errors that will distract the reader from the fiction that the author is creating. I can't believe that Clancy does not know the difference between the Baltics and the Balkans (see page 121). I hope it is a big oversight or a super-sized typo. Or could it be that Clancy is going to have the Serbs and the Croats who live in the Balkans go looking for oil in the Baltics where the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians live? Is he creating a new fictional ethnic conflict for a future book? Or is it lack of geographic knowledge? Also, when Eduard is escaping from the mansion, at times I visualize him on a bicycle, and at other times on a motorbike. Do I have a reading problem, or is there a writing problem here? Note, this is not to criticize the book as a whole, but just to criticize specific instances of lack of quality control that caused me to deduct one star.

Not the best in the series, but still good...

During the trip home from Orlando, I was able to finish up Tom Clancy's Net Force: Changing Of The Guard. This is part of his paperback series that bear his name but is written by others. The setting is about 10 years in the future, and the action revolves around a government office called Net Force. This group uses computer technology and the Internet to track down criminal activity. In this installment, the NF group has obtained an encrypted disk with the names of all the Russian spies throughout the world. The breakdown of the code is going slow, but a certain sleeper spy in the US is willing to do anything to keep the government from learning of his involvement. When the top NF codebreaker is nearly killed in a kidnapping attempt, there is an all-out attempt to find the killer and the person who might have hired him.Generally speaking, it's a good read. It will make more sense if you've followed the series, as there are references to past people and events that you won't know about otherwise. It doesn't kill the book if you haven't done the reading, but it helps. I personally like near-future techno-thriller novels, so this one works for me. It's not as action-packed as others in the series, but it is still a pleasant diversion.

SAD CHANGE GOOD BOOK

I HATE TO SEE THE OLD CHARACTERS GO BUT THE NEW ONES COULD BE FUN. THE BOOK WAS MISSING A LITTLE SOMETHING BUT ALL IN ALL I THINK IT WAS A GOOD BOOK. THE WRITER WAS LONG IN THE TOOTH ABOUT USELESS DETAILS ABOUT THE NEW DIRECTORS HOBBY.