Breaking Point (Tom Clancy's Net Force, No. 4)

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1) Paperback Book Breaking Point (Tom Clancy's Net Force, No. 4) by Berkley. Even though the cover of the book will have in big letters `Tom Clancy´s Net Force´ written on it, this book is really written by Steve Perry, and created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. This is also the fourth book in this series, so you might want to start with the first book, simply called Net Force. The second and third books are, respectively, Hidden Agendas, and Night Moves.

The story takes place in 2010. Computers are the new superpowers, and those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force.

Net Force Commander Alex Michaels must stop a research that involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability to drive half a country into madness using low frequency wave generation. Such a technology is actually possible, and the storyline is not farfetched. The world has really changed since the advent of computers and the internet, and more changes are on the way.

In this book, this technology has fallen into the wrong hands! One wonders what the right hands are for such a technology to fall into in the first place? Anyone creating such a technology must be evil in the first place! Are the good people the people who create such technology and the evil people those who use it?

"And who wrote the tune, you dare to ask?
You know who wrote it--
it´s the Devil´s own music, hot and sweet, and surely
damned will be the man who turns his ear toward it." --Sean Patrick O´Mahoney.

I did not find this book to be very captivating, and with so many good books out there to read, I stopped reading this one soon after I started it. This book is now out of print. Is this a telltale sign? Maybe I´ll go back and read the first book in this series first.¤

2) Paperback Book Breaking Point (Tom Clancy's Net Force, No. 4) by Berkley. This was my second book by Clancy. The first one was a major flop in my opinion. This one was not to bad. It had a few flaws, but what book doesn´t. At the beginning he put in a few to many characters, and I had a little trouble remembering exactly who did what. Also some of the characters were of a type that did not seem to fit with the story.
Near the end, things started to get a bit confusing. Some of the happenings just didn´t seem to fit the rest of the book.
Also, it started out with almost everyone in a one guy and one girl situation. Farther in, it started getting into the sex stuff more than I would have liked. Not as bad as some books I have read, but still more than I liked.
Even so, it was a big difference over the last one, and a very good read. I would definitely reccomend it. Read and enjoy.¤

3) Paperback Book Breaking Point (Tom Clancy's Net Force, No. 4) by Berkley. The American Heritage Collegiate Dictionary defines foreshadowing as presenting an indication or event beforehand. If you use that definition, then Breaking Point is full of foreshadowing.
The first example that is evident of foreshadowing in this particular novel is in the prologue. In this particular portion, the narrator presents a character, an old man, who is a stock character, who is talking about his peaceful country, and then his thoughts drift. He begins to think about how much he loathes his family. How they are so cruel to him. His thoughts go as far as to murder. Then, very suddenly, one of his relatives comes out of the shack with a knife. The old man goes crazy, and kills everyone in the village. This ends with a man laughing over a machine. This particular event foreshadows the plotted mass destruction of the world with a machine that controls people´s minds. So, this event essentially summarizes the entire work in just 6 pages. That is how critical the use of the literary device foreshadowing is to this novel. Without it, one would simply not know what on earth the doctor was doing with the HAARP device.
This event is just one of the many times the literary device foreshadowing appears in this novel. It is vital that the reader pick up on this hint. If one does, one can discover the key to this particular novel.¤

4) Paperback Book Breaking Point (Tom Clancy's Net Force, No. 4) by Berkley. My book is about Alex Michaels who is the head of the net -force task force. Net - Force is part of the FBI in Washington DC. Michaels and the task force stop people from selling drugs on the internet. They also stop people from hacking into government files. During the time Michaels finds out about HAARP, a low frequency weapon which has the possibility drive a country insane. The U.S Air Force and the Navy were making the weapon.

I liked the characters because they were all suspicious in their own way. Alex and his wife divorce his wife and she went out with his Toni. There was an assassin who quit because he was getting old. He quit to become a body guard. I did not like the pace because it went fast and then slow. I also did not like the point of view because it changed between characters, which made it hard to follow.

I recommend this book to anyone who likes spy thrillers. The book was a great read I would recommend this to people who like a challenge.¤

5) Paperback Book Breaking Point (Tom Clancy's Net Force, No. 4) by Berkley. Occasional bits of good writing in describing the thinking processes of some of the characters, but otherwise bland. A friend who read it broke out howling with laughter at a scene in which various characters shoot it out in pitch blackness in the middle of a June night. I asked him what was so funny. He pointed out that the scene takes place in Alaska, where in the middle of the summer it is so far north that it never gets darker than twilight, particularly a week or so from the longest day of the year. A little research by the author(s) about one of the most important settings for the novel would have helped. When I read it, I broke out howling at a description of a sports event involving throwing a boomerang to try to get the longest flight time. The book quotes flight times of up to 18 minutes. The book revolves around characters who are supposedly power users of the internet, who can rapidly access the most obscure facts. Too bad the author(s) aren´t up to doing basic research on the internet themselves.¤

6) Paperback Book Breaking Point (Tom Clancy's Net Force, No. 4) by Berkley.

In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force.

Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint Air Force-Navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability to drive half a country into madness using low frequency wave generation. Now the technology has fallen into the wrong hands -- and testing has begun...

A powerful examination of America´s defense and intelligence systems of the future, Tom Clancy´s Net Force TM is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik.

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