Information To The President example essay topic

Tom Clancy's Op-Center Divide and Conquer The nation is about to be in another Middle East war, but they don't know it yet, even the president doesn't know it. Will Paul Hood inform the president with the correct information in time? Will war break out in Azerbaijan? In this political thriller you really don't know what is going on right up until the end. Paul Hood is the main character; he is the head of Op-Center, the United States division that deals with information sharing with Allis countries to stop terrorism.

He is going through a divorce, and his daughter was just held hostage in an U.S. embassy (I think this happened in the book before the one I read). He had resigned from Op-Center because of all the things happening in his life, but he went back because he couldn't live without it. Paul Hood would be classified as a workaholic. The Chief of Staff (Red Gable), the Vice President (Charles Cotten) and Secretary of the State (Jack Fenewick), are all in on the conspiracy to start a war in order to secure the U.S. oil supply for the next millennium. The conspiracy will also put Charles Cotten into the presidency, with Michael Lawrence (current president) being forced out of office. The conspiracy that the "Eye's Only Group" (Gable, Cotten and Fenewick) has planned is that of terrorism and treason.

The plan is the terrorist known as the Harpooner will blow up an oil rig in Azerbaijan, making them think that the Iranians it. The Iranians will claim they didn't, but everybody will think they are lying, because the dead bodies found will be that of Iranians, and they will be wearing the uniform of the elite Iranian military force. Tensions will grow, war will break out. The whole time the president will be fed mis-information that he will talk internationally with this mis-information, then have to eat his words, when everybody says "What!?

We didn't know that". The public will think the president has lost his sanity, and he will be forced to resign. Paul Hood has to dig deep to find the connection between the "Eye's Only Group" and Azerbaijan, and get the information to the president before he decides to go to war. I found the book enjoyable, it was not the best book I've ever read, but it wasn't the worst. If you like political thriller, I would recommend checking this book out, but be warned it has a lot of jumping around, and the timeline is a little tricky to follow, and it's slow reading at the start, but picks up rapidly. The book made me think though, think about how much does the government know?

And what are they doing with that knowledge?