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Tom Clancy's Net Force #9

by Margarete Buber- Neumann

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Espionage, Ebooks, Adventure, Action, Adult

Paperback

First published January 4, 2005

Reviews

[Ross Vincent · Rating 4 out of 5]

After a 15+ year hiatus, I once again got back into the world of Net Force (In part because I heard there was new books coming out).

Now, at the time of publishing, this series was suppose to be "futuristic" - virgils (portable phones with cameras and internet access), VR glasses, and a Cyber Nation.
Hmmmm - my Android phone has a camera, full internet access, including to the Cyber Community of Facebook, Tweeter and others. And I could also sit at home and watch games and movies on my VR glasses.

Yeah, it isnt quiet as "future" when it is the reality of things.

That being said, the book is very Clancy lite - part Op Center and part Jack Ryan. Which means it is good. It starts with Net Force being folded into the Department of Defense, with the military teams being part of the Corps again, and not National Guard. (A part of me starts to wonder "Posse Comitatus" - will the Military teams now not be able to enforce the law. That might be an issue for the next book). The team is brought in, to help find a technical glitch in the Military VR systems. But the issue also is affecting Cyber Nation. At the same time, a Chinese General is plotting something - but what?

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the first Net Force book I've read.
Set in the near future, virtual reality is used a great deal. A US military VR program is hacked and crashed causing the military to take over Net Force which has the resources to hack into just about any program (including a black ops site that nobody is suppose to know exists. Turns out that the bad guy is in China. Cybernation, a virtual reality country is also involved, so there is international intrigue. In the meantime, we get some insight into the lives of some of the characters. In the end, it's a love story.

[Christopher DuMont · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good book but took a long time to get going. It also does an average job at tying up the major plot lines with pretty simple solutions and leave you feeling like your were cheated a bit. It is an interesting story and has a lot of potential - the author just didn’t develop it enough. Only one left to go in the series

[John Oldfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

Net Force good

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[Bart B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Full of adventurous short stories. Too Hollywoody.

[Ernest · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a lot of extra reading and i had to re read some.

[Donna · Rating 5 out of 5]

The US Military and A group called CyberNation have been hacked. It is up to Net Force to work with the two groups to get rid of the hack.

[Seann Zales · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my favorite by a long shot

What bothered me the most was switching from cyber world to real world and back again and again it left me wondering WTF was going on.

[Gabor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yeah it was perfectly fine. Can’t really say anything else

[Anthony Messina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh

[Levent Mollamustafaoglu · Rating 2 out of 5]

Tom Clancy has started this series - Net Force - but it has deteriorated into a series of incoherent books that do not show anything similar to what Mr. Clancy offered in the golden era of his career. I believe most books after the initial one were written by others. This one is about a lot of separate stories, but mostly about unknown hackers entering into highly protected military Virtual Reality software and crashing them. The Net Force goes after them. At the same time several threads are unfolding, a bit similar to what Clancy did in his Jack Ryan books. However Clancy managed to bring all the complex threads in his books to an exciting climax and all stories converged into the main one very skilfully. None of that here. You hear lots of separate stories and the result is.... mediocrity.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay, I'm giving this a four, but I happened to notice that it's got a 1 on Amazon. This book is probably best read if you've read the whole series, and have room for a lot of the soap opera aspects of the story. It finally catches up to modern times, more or less, with a scenario that includes Chinese hackers, and the effect that has on the US-Chinese relationship (only mildly discussed, but there). I liked it as much as I liked the others, but I definitely get the sense I'm in the minority. And in keeping with the sense that the series is changing, Net Force is taken over by the DOD and belongs to the Marines. Interesting turn, and it certainly makes one wonder what's coming next!

[Jeroen · Rating 3 out of 5]

It had been a while since I reac a Net Force story, and it was relatively easy to pick up even with the few references to Net Force history. It's an interesting read especially considering the fact that the book was written as taking place in the near future but as I read it for me it took place in the recent past. The book is set in 2014, while it currently is 2016. Some of the 'future tech' is still that. It was a fun read.

[Wenzel Roessler · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best book in the series so far. This net force book is more about the people and the antagonist and less on the techie side as other books have been. I see from other review is that I am in the vast minority on this book. I can see why people did not like it, there are definitely some editing issues it seems that key parts of the story were cut out and only referred to later. Despite that the story really held my interest and I found I could not stop reading

[Buddy Draper · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read a number of the NetForce books and at first I really liked them. At first I really enjoyed the vision of gadgets and technological gizmos in the future. But the scenarios have become tired. Since it had been a while since I'd read a NetForce novel there were a few new characters, but there were essentially copies of the characters they replaced.

[Elyse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my favorite of the Net Force series. Trying to get into the new immersion in minutiae about characters, without real character development. Narrative time could be better spent in really spinning the yarn, imo.

Not sure I'll read Net Force again unless really desperate.

[Joyce · Rating 4 out of 5]

Someone hacked a top secret Pentagon wargame and Cyber-Nations web site. Net Force was taken over by the Military to find the hacker.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked that this book had more of the web-walking that first intrigued me to the series.

[Gary Barrentine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not one of my favorites in the series.