Op Center 03 – Games Of State – Clancy, Tom

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We would like to thank Jeff Rovin for his creative ideas and his

invaluable contributions to the preparation of the manuscript.

We would also like to acknowledge the assistance of Martin H.

Greenberg, Larry Segriff, Robert Youdelman, Esq., Tom Mal on,

Esq., and the wonderful people at The Putnam Berkley Group,

including Phyl is Grann, David Shanks, and Elizabeth Beier. As

always, we would like to thank Robert Gottlieb of The Wil iam

Morris Agency, our agent and friend, without whom this book

would never have been conceived. But most important, it is for

you, our readers, to determine how successful our col ective

-Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik

CHAPTER ONE Thursday, 9:47 A.M., Garbsen, Germany

Until a few days ago, twenty-one-year-old Jody Thompson didn’t

Back in 1991, the young girl had been too preoccupied with

boys, phones, and acne to pay much attention to the Persian

Gulf War. Al she remembered were TV images of white flashes

tearing through the green night sky, and hearing about Scud

missiles being fired at Israel and Saudi Arabia. She wasn’t

proud of how, little she recal ed, but fourteen-year-old girls have

fourteen-year-old priorities.

Vietnam belonged to her parents, and al she knew about

Korea was that during her junior year of col ege, the veterans


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