''Tom Clancy's Net Force'' is a novel series, created by
Tom Clancy
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science, military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of ...
and
Steve Pieczenik
Steve R. Pieczenik () (born December 7, 1943) is a Cuban-American psychiatrist, author, publisher, and conspiracy theorist,. He is a former consultant of the United States Department of State.
Pieczenik has made several appearances on InfoWar ...
and originally written by
Steve Perry
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. The original series ceased publication in 2006. There was also a spin-off of young adult books called ''
Net Force Explorers
Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers or Net Force Explorers is a series of young adult fiction, young adult novels created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik as a spin-off of the military fiction series Tom Clancy's Net Force. The first novel was pub ...
''. The series was rebooted in 2019 with the ''Dark Web'' novel by Jerome Preisler.
General
''Tom Clancy's Net Force'' is aimed at an adult audience, while the related series
Net Force Explorers
Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers or Net Force Explorers is a series of young adult fiction, young adult novels created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik as a spin-off of the military fiction series Tom Clancy's Net Force. The first novel was pub ...
(which follows the adventures of a teen auxiliary of the Net Force in 2025) is aimed at the older teen market.
The initial ''Net Force'' concept was alluded to in the third ''
Op-Center'' novel, ''
Games of State
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''; given that ''Net Force'' was created by the same two men who created the ''Op-Center'' series, it can be assumed that they occur in the same universe. However, no direct connection has yet been drawn between the two.
Main characters
These characters are in most or all books:
Original series
The books in the ''Tom Clancy's Net Force'' series so far are:
Relaunch series
The books in the ''Tom Clancy's Net Force Relaunch'' series so far are:
In other media
The first book of the series, ''Net Force'', was adapted and altered into a made-for-TV film in
1999
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, starring
Scott Bakula
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as Alex Michaels and
Joanna Going
Joanna Catherine Going (born July 22, 1963) is an American actress known for the television series ''Kingdom'', ''House of Cards'', ''Mad Men'' and the movie ''Wyatt Earp''.
Early life
Going was born in Washington, DC, the eldest of six childre ...
as Toni Fiorella.
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References
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Book series introduced in 1998
Novel series
Techno-thriller novels