Tom Clancy's Op-Center is a novel series, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, though the first 12 books were written by Jeff Rovin between 1995 and 2005. The four books in the series reboot from 2014 are written by Dick Couch, George Galdorisi and Jeff Rovin. Main characters These characters are in most or all stories from the main series: Paul Hood: The Director of Op-Center and former Mayor of L.A. General Mike Rodgers: Deputy Director of Op-Center and STRIKER Commander Bob Herbert: Chief of Intelligence Matt Stoll: In-house computer genius Darrel McCaskey: The FBI Liaison Lowell Coffey II: Op-Center's lawyer Liz Gordon: Op-Center's psychologist These characters are in the stories from the reboot series: Chase Williams: The Director of Op-Center and a former U.S. Naval Admiral Aaron Bleich: Geek Programmer and Data Analyst Roger McCord: Intelligence Director Brian Dawson: Operations Director Jim Wright: Domestic Crisis Manager Richard Middleton: Planning Director Hector Rodriquez: JSOC Liaison, Retired Army Sergeant Major Sandee Barron: Helicopter Pilot Mike Volner: JSOC Response Team Commander Allen Kim: FBI CIRG Team Leader List of Op-Center Novels The books in the Tom Clancy's Op-Center series: National Crisis Management Center (Op-Center) Although familiarly called "Op-Center", the actual name of the largely autonomous agency is the "National Crisis Management Center". The charter of the NCMC, or Op-Center, is unlike any other in the history of the United States. They handle both domestic and international crises. Director Paul Hood reports to the President himself, and what had started as "an information clearinghouse with SWAT capabilities" now has the singular capacity to monitor, initiate, and manage operations worldwide. The organization had its own paramilitary response team, called the Striker team, named by an Op-Center member who was a soccer fan, composed of members of the U.S. military special operations community. The series also mentioned similar organizations from England, whose response team was called Bengal, and Russia, with a team called Hammer. It is headquartered in a nondescript, two-story building located near the Naval Reserve flight line at Andrews Air Force Base that used to be a ready room, a staging area for crack flight crews. In the event of a nuclear attack, it would have been their job to evacuate key officials from Washington, D.C. According to the 2014 reboot franchise, the NCMC was eventually disbanded after the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence managed to convince the