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Tom Clancy's Net Force #9
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A top secret Pentagon wargame is hacked. Only Net Force has the expertise to track down the culprit, but they are tied up with other priorities. Due to shifting budget priorities, Net Force is moved onto the DoD budget. That means that as a military operation, they can now give top priority to the Pentagon's problem. They soon make a connection between the attack and a Chinese general in Macau. But this investigation is too big for Net Force and they are forced to work with members of Cybernation, the virtual reality nation which has opposed Net Force in the past.
384 pages, Hardcover
First published January 4, 2005
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Steve Perry
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Steven Carl Perry has written over fifty novels and numerous short stories, which have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. Perry is perhaps best known for the Matador series. He has written books in the Star Wars, Alien and Conan universes. He was a collaborator on all of the Tom Clancy's Net Force series, seven of which have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. Two of his novelizations, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire and Men in Black have also been bestsellers. Other writing credits include articles, reviews, and essays, animated teleplays, and some unproduced movie scripts. One of his scripts for Batman: The Animated Series was an Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Writing.
Perry is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, The Animation Guild, and the Writers Guild of America, West
Steven Carl Perry has written over fifty novels and numerous short stories, which have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. Perry is perhaps best known for the Matador series. He has written books in the Star Wars, Alien and Conan universes. He was a collaborator on all of the Tom Clancy's Net Force series, seven of which have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. Two of his novelizations, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire and Men in Black have also been bestsellers. Other writing credits include articles, reviews, and essays, animated teleplays, and some unproduced movie scripts. One of his scripts for Batman: The Animated Series was an Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Writing.
Perry is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, The Animation Guild, and the Writers Guild of America, West
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September 8, 2020
Decent entry into the series. Many new characters introduced, to the point where the beginning is a bit dizzying, but it keeps things interesting. The resolution of the conflict feels rushed and unexciting, particularly as the buid-up phase was so neatly done - it almost feels like a waste of good characters and a good plot. Good, not great.
June 15, 2020
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?
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?
November 10, 2024
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.
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.
December 28, 2022
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
May 15, 2020
Net Force good
Want to read
July 19, 2020elibrary
August 17, 2020
Full of adventurous short stories. Too Hollywoody.
September 27, 2020
It was a lot of extra reading and i had to re read some.
November 20, 2022
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.
January 3, 2025
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.
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.
May 24, 2025
Yeah it was perfectly fine. Can’t really say anything else
April 6, 2015
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.
January 2, 2008
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!
May 12, 2016
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.
July 17, 2020
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
April 11, 2016
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.
June 17, 2014
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.
Not sure I'll read Net Force again unless really desperate.
November 24, 2010
Someone hacked a top secret Pentagon wargame and Cyber-Nations web site. Net Force was taken over by the Military to find the hacker.
April 12, 2013
I liked that this book had more of the web-walking that first intrigued me to the series.
October 23, 2013
Not one of my favorites in the series.
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