Into the Fire

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Reviving and reshaping a highly successful series such as Tom Clancy’s Op-Center was an undertaking that was at once exciting and daunting. It took an extraordinary degree of cooperation, from those with stewardship over the first series to those who had the vision to launch a new series, those who did the heavy lifting to work through the contractual and editorial details of that new series, and those who served as sounding boards in shaping the first, Out of the Ashes, and now this latest effort, Into the Fire.

There are many people who helped make the new Op-Center series, and this book, live up to our expectations — and especially to the expectations of readers of the previous Op-Center books, as well as our new Op-Center readers. Many thanks to the following, who contributed their time and talent to this effort: Mel Berger, Bill Bleich, Wanda Clancy, Anne Clifford, Ken Curtis, Melinda Day, Jeff Edwards, Hadley Franklin, Herb Gilliland, Robert Gottlieb, Kate Green, Kevin Green, Jennifer Johnson-Blalock, Brad Kaplan, Krystee Kott, Carl LaGreca, Robert Masello, Laurie McCord, Scott McCord, Madeleine Morrel, Rick “Ozzie” Nelson, Bob O’Donnell, Jerry O’Donnell, April Osborn, Norman Polmar, Sheila Sachs, Matthew Shear, John Silbersack, Charlie Spicer, Scott Truver, Sandy Wetzel-Smith, Ed Whitman, and Anna Wu.