Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780425183038
ISBN number: 0425183033
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 208
Printing Date: March 04, 2003
Publishing house: Berkley
Age index: Young Adult
Release Date: March 04, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 1241176
Studio: Berkley
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A Net Force Explorer plays an innocent game of hide-and-seek on the Web-and finds himself in trouble with the CIA. Now, the Explorers must help him clear his name, before he gets booted off the Net Force Explorers for good...
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Parts of this book are good. Other parts, not so much. The VR stuff that is interspersed throughout as the way folks surf the net in this somewhere down the line time horizon isn't a strong point of the story at all, and neither is all the net slang used in the dialog. Actually, it's kind of a strange situation where the action part of this action book is actually somewhat weaker than the chartacter development.
I don't know if that means I'll read another Net Force book, though.
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With 146 other reviews listed here nothing I could say would probably be new, so I'll be brief. When I saw this series one thing that appealed to me was the books were not the normal Tom Clancy 'door prop' size. I enjoy the smaller size and the larger print, too.
Another reason I picked these NET FORCE books up was the hope that I might learn something more about computers, if they are supposed to take place in 2010, then at least cutting age tech will be present.
For me, the characters though very similiar to other Clancy characters are not cardboard and are interesting. My favorite in this book is the Selkie, bad gal that she is, she stands out. I know Tom Clancy did not write these shorter books, so either he has more ideas than he can cover himself, or he just wants extra cash. However, that may be, though the books were not written by him, I rather doubt much is in that he did not sanction.
Though I am not a die-hard fan, therefore not reading every book Mr. Clancy writes, I do enjoy his books. I'm ex-military, Vietnam era USN/USMC, have seen him on a couple book review programs, and though he never served, am impressed with his respect for things military and certainly his expertise. I respect both him and his writing.
Semper Fi.
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Set in the year 2010, Tom Clancy spins a yarn worth tons! Imaginations run wild in a virtual world and someone's crashing the system. How to find him/her in a VR World? Great reading bet you can't put it down!
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Before starting the review on this book I think one thing needs to made extremely clear, although Tom Clancy's name takes up nearly a quarter of the cover this book is not written by Mr. Clancy. The series of Net Force is an idea that Tom Clancy fabricated along with Steve Pieczenik while Steve Perry was commissioned to write the series. Although not written by Clancy I would like to believe that Clancy is one of the very first to read the book and makes any corrections that he sees fit. Having said that, the book is absolutely readable and does have a little of a Clancy feel to it.
Now on to the book itself, I really think that the series is going to be successful for a variety of reasons, and Net Force itself is something not all that far fetched. Net Force is basically a crime fighting organization that deals directly with the internet. I think that the most interesting thing through out the book is the idea of Virtual Reality (VR). This book really focuses on the fact that VR is not only a part of the future but a very intricate part of the future. The one thing that can become confusing in this book is that it will move all over the place during chapters. Without reading the few bolded lines that break apart the chapters telling the location of the following scene you can become easily confused as to what is going on. Another thing about this book is that there are a wide variety of characters that are all introduced, some lasting a matter of pages and some, hopefully, lasting the entire series.
The series seems to focus around the newly appointed director of Net Force, Alex Michaels. The book goes into the past of Alex's life discussing his ex-wife as well as daughter but I think the thing that this book really sets up is a possible office romance between Alex and his co-worker Toni Fiorella. Toni is madly in love with Alex and is determined to make Alex feel the same way. I guess time will tell whether or not Alex ever comes around to the idea of becoming involved with someone other than his ex-wife Megan, someone that he is still in love with.
Overall I really did like the book and the characters that seem to sticking around. The book is a bit confusing at times with all of the different characters and settings and was a tad bit harder to read because you had to keep all the stories straight and remember where each character was at a given time. Other than that I would recommend this book to really anyone, no only those interested in computers.
Brian Bowen
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This series may not be written by Tom Clancy but you'll surely get a lot of info from it, from legal stuff to history to medical stuff to physics and oh yes...pentjak silat!
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