
Balance of Power
Tom Clancy's Op-Center #5
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Buy for $20.25
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Michael Kramer
About this listen
The Op-Center team heads for Spain, where ethnic conflicts threaten to break out into a conflagration. As the novel's intelligence chief Bob Herbert puts it, this clash "will make the Spanish Civil War look like a brawl."
The intelligence team's efforts to defuse the crisis are foiled when an Op-Center representative is assassinated in Madrid on her way to a high-level diplomatic meeting. Someone very powerful wants another Spanish War - no matter what the cost.
Now the crew must delicately navigate the treacherous shoals of a planned insurrection by a popular Spanish general and his troops. As usual, Clancy delivers a memorable cast of characters, and he welcomes us into the byways of little-traveled territory in this action-packed intrigue.
Prolong the suspense: listen to more titles in Tom Clancy's Op-Center series.©1998 Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Jeff Rovin (P)2011 Random House AudioListeners also enjoyed...
-
Tom Clancy's Op-Center
- Tom Clancy's Op-Center #1
- By: Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Jeff Rovin
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A terrorist bomb explodes during a South Korean celebration of the anniversary of the election of its first president. Alarms are raised in Washington. No one is claiming responsibility. The first suspect is North Korea. Could it be making a power play against South Korea and unification? If so, how will the U.S. respond? Paul Hood, Director of the Op-Center, must answer these questions. The Op-Center, a largely autonomous new agency which takes on the government's toughest security problems, is only six months old, and has never been given a foreign crisis until now.
-
-
Excellent listen
- By Aaron Kynaston on 08-18-11
By: Tom Clancy, and others
-
The Teeth of the Tiger
- By: Tom Clancy
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Charged with spotting terrorist threats, the top-secret "Campus" has its hands full when Middle East thugs and Colombian drug lords join forces. New Campus recruits include Jack Ryan Jr., son of master spy John Patrick Ryan, now President.
-
-
Introduction of Jack Ryan jr. as an covert agent
- By Wayne on 05-12-16
By: Tom Clancy
-
Against All Enemies
- By: Tom Clancy, Peter Telep
- Narrated by: Steven Weber
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For years, ex–Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America’s enemies at every turn. And then...news of a potentially devastating coalition: What if two of the greatest threats to the security of the United States were to form an unholy alliance?
-
-
It's Not Tom Clancy!
- By AudibleClient834 on 06-20-11
By: Tom Clancy, and others
-
Shadow Warriors
- Inside the Special Forces
- By: Tom Clancy, Carl Steiner, Tony Koltz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 21 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this factual account written with General Carl Steiner (Ret.), a commander who held responsibility for all U.S. Special Operations forces across all service lines, we get special insight into a largely secretive community whose members do not talk about their work. We hear about it only afterwards: the Achille Lauro hijacking, the "takedown" of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, the efforts to find Aidid in Somalia. These are men sent in to do the impossible - and often, they achieve it.
-
-
Shadow Warriors
- By Skeezix on 08-14-07
By: Tom Clancy, and others
-
Red Storm Rising
- By: Tom Clancy
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 31 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Muslim fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous, the Russians figure they are going to have to take things into their own hands. They plan to seize the Persian Gulf, and more ambitiously, to neutralize NATO. Thus begins Red Storm, an audacious gamble that uses diplomatic maneuver to cloak a crash military build-up.
-
-
Good Story, Good Narrative, Good Book!
- By PatC on 04-11-12
By: Tom Clancy
-
American Assassin
- By: Vince Flynn
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terrorist's worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world...and then tragedy struck.
-
-
Flynn never disappoints
- By lesley on 10-12-10
By: Vince Flynn
-
Tom Clancy's Op-Center
- Tom Clancy's Op-Center #1
- By: Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Jeff Rovin
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A terrorist bomb explodes during a South Korean celebration of the anniversary of the election of its first president. Alarms are raised in Washington. No one is claiming responsibility. The first suspect is North Korea. Could it be making a power play against South Korea and unification? If so, how will the U.S. respond? Paul Hood, Director of the Op-Center, must answer these questions. The Op-Center, a largely autonomous new agency which takes on the government's toughest security problems, is only six months old, and has never been given a foreign crisis until now.
-
-
Excellent listen
- By Aaron Kynaston on 08-18-11
By: Tom Clancy, and others
-
The Teeth of the Tiger
- By: Tom Clancy
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Charged with spotting terrorist threats, the top-secret "Campus" has its hands full when Middle East thugs and Colombian drug lords join forces. New Campus recruits include Jack Ryan Jr., son of master spy John Patrick Ryan, now President.
-
-
Introduction of Jack Ryan jr. as an covert agent
- By Wayne on 05-12-16
By: Tom Clancy
-
Against All Enemies
- By: Tom Clancy, Peter Telep
- Narrated by: Steven Weber
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For years, ex–Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America’s enemies at every turn. And then...news of a potentially devastating coalition: What if two of the greatest threats to the security of the United States were to form an unholy alliance?
-
-
It's Not Tom Clancy!
- By AudibleClient834 on 06-20-11
By: Tom Clancy, and others
-
Shadow Warriors
- Inside the Special Forces
- By: Tom Clancy, Carl Steiner, Tony Koltz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 21 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this factual account written with General Carl Steiner (Ret.), a commander who held responsibility for all U.S. Special Operations forces across all service lines, we get special insight into a largely secretive community whose members do not talk about their work. We hear about it only afterwards: the Achille Lauro hijacking, the "takedown" of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, the efforts to find Aidid in Somalia. These are men sent in to do the impossible - and often, they achieve it.
-
-
Shadow Warriors
- By Skeezix on 08-14-07
By: Tom Clancy, and others
-
Red Storm Rising
- By: Tom Clancy
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 31 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Muslim fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous, the Russians figure they are going to have to take things into their own hands. They plan to seize the Persian Gulf, and more ambitiously, to neutralize NATO. Thus begins Red Storm, an audacious gamble that uses diplomatic maneuver to cloak a crash military build-up.
-
-
Good Story, Good Narrative, Good Book!
- By PatC on 04-11-12
By: Tom Clancy
-
American Assassin
- By: Vince Flynn
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terrorist's worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world...and then tragedy struck.
-
-
Flynn never disappoints
- By lesley on 10-12-10
By: Vince Flynn
-
Tom Clancy's Net Force #3: Night Moves
- By: Netco Partners
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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. A Union Jack appearing on computer screens all over the world is just a harbinger of the danger to come. As cyberspace is thrown into chaos, several computer experts suffer strokes while hunting the deadly hacker in virtual reality. One of them is the Net Force's own Jay Gridley.
-
-
Well written
- By Eric C. Firkin on 11-25-24
By: Netco Partners
-
The Gray Man
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man—a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.
-
-
The gray man talks about gentry in the 3rd person on the court
- By Safekeeper on 07-26-17
By: Mark Greaney
-
Tom Clancy's Net Force #4: Breaking Point
- By: Netco Partners
- Narrated by: Stephen Lang
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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....
-
-
Another Tom Clancy book
- By Gramsy Marie on 11-26-16
By: Netco Partners
-
State of War
- Tom Clancy's Net Force #7
- By: Steve Perry, Larry Segriff
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Minor viruses are eating away at the Net Force computers. The email shut-downs and flickering monitors are hardly emergencies - but they've been keeping the tech department hopping. Same with the sudden rash of time-consuming lawsuits. No one in the Net Force has a moment to spare, which is exactly the way Mitchell Townsend Ames wants it. Because when the shadowy mastermind launches his master plan, he wants Net Force to be looking the other way....
-
-
formulat book
- By Stephen on 12-10-07
By: Steve Perry, and others
-
The Lions of Lucerne
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the unthinkable has just become a nightmarish reality: thirty Secret Service agents have been viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States kidnapped by one of the most lethal terrorist organizations in the Middle East - the Fatah Revolutionary Council. But surviving agent and ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath doesn't believe the Fatah Revolutionary Council is responsible for the attack.
-
-
Great Scott Harvath
- By Carol on 11-18-12
By: Brad Thor
-
Golden Buddha
- By: Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo
- Narrated by: J. Charles
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Juan Cabrillo's first adventure with the Oregon - a state-of-the-art spy ship disguised as a nondescript lumber hauler - takes him and his crew into dangerous waters as they try to put Tibet back in the hands of the Dalai Lama by striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese.
-
-
Horrible Narrative
- By steve on 05-25-16
By: Clive Cussler, and others
-
Tom Clancy's Net Force #5: Point of Impact
- By: Netco Partners
- Narrated by: J. K. Simmons
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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. It's the rich man's drug of choice - and it's being sold on the Internet for a thousand dollars a capsule. A potent mixture of smart drugs, psychedelics, angel dust, and steroids, it can turn a 50-year-old into a raging beast of aggression and sexual desire. Now it's up to the Net Force to find the source of this dangerous designer drug.
-
-
Good Characters
- By Eric C. Firkin on 12-13-24
By: Netco Partners
-
Firewall
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
- By: James Swallow
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Veteran Fourth Echelon Agent Sam Fisher has a new mission recruiting and training the next generation of Splinter Cell operatives for the NSA’s covert action division, including his daughter, Sarah. But when a lethal assassin from Fisher’s past returns from the dead on a mission of murder, father and daughter are thrust into a race against time as a sinister threat to global security is revealed.
-
-
Firewall Review
- By Paul Endsley on 03-12-22
By: James Swallow
-
Changing of the Guard
- Tom Clancy's Net Force #8
- By: Steve Perry, Larry Segriff
- Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Though the head of a major multinational corporation and a key player in world affairs, Samuel Walker Cox has a past that few people know about. But that group is about to get bigger. A computer disk has fallen into the hands of the Net Force, outing the powerful American businessman as a former Russian spy.
By: Steve Perry, and others
-
Target One
- The Spy Game, Book 1
- By: Jack Mars
- Narrated by: Logan Harper
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jacob Snow—elite soldier-turned-CIA agent, haunted by his tortured past—is one of the CIA’s greatest assets and is dispatched when the stakes are highest. When an ancient Egyptian relic goes missing under mysterious circumstances, Jacob knows this is no run-of-the-mill robbery: The relic holds a secret—one that could destroy everything.
-
-
Underwhelming
- By Stuart N. Burruss on 06-20-23
By: Jack Mars
-
National Security
- A Jericho Quinn Thriller, Book 1
- By: Marc Cameron
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Warning: The next terrorist attack on American soil is coming...sooner than you think. They can strike anytime, anywhere. A public landmark. A suburban shopping mall. And now, the human body itself. Three Middle Eastern terrorists have been injected with a biological weapon, human time bombs unleashed on American soil. They are prepared to die. To spread their disease. To annihilate millions. If America hopes to fight this enemy from within, we need a new kind of weapon. Meet Special Agent Jericho Quinn. Air Force veteran. Champion boxer. Trained assassin.
-
-
Great story but
- By Roy on 12-06-20
By: Marc Cameron
-
The Janson Directive
- By: Robert Ludlum
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Peter Novak, one of the world's greatest men, has been kidnapped! Running out of time and hope, Novak's people turn to Paul Janson, legendary covert operative and assassin. Janson is retired, and nothing could lure him back - nothing except Peter Novak, who once saved Janson's life. " Ludlum's best since The Bourne Identity," raves Kirkus Reviews.
-
-
Captivated me from the beginning
- By A Grady Williams on 01-14-03
By: Robert Ludlum
What listeners say about Balance of Power
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Gina
- 08-03-15
Intense & lively!
I love the entire series so far. Plot is realistic and grounded. Characters are believable and quick witted. Can't wait to start next book!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Eddie Ruiz
- 12-13-18
Loved it
I had a hard time putting it down, I have been a big fan of Tom Clance for a long time
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Angele
- 07-15-17
Another Edge of Seat Ending!
Even though I read the book in paperback some years ago. And even though I listened to some later books in the Op-Center series last month and knew who would make it back home, this audio version of the story kept me up at night! With Steve Pieczenik and Tom Clancy stories I always feel like I come away wiser in the ways of the world and with restored faith in the real life characters like these who put their lives and talents on the line to serve (and save) humanity.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Th Rasband
- 11-21-17
great book
loved it, suspenseful, kept on edge while listening, needs more of this type of novels
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- James
- 06-19-14
Where will the balance shift?
What did you love best about Balance of Power?
What I like best about Balance of Power is the realism of the Op-Center characters and their interactions with each other and their enemies. All are human and die just like everyone else and everyone has an important role to play.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Maria is my favourite characters just because I love sexy, brave and courageous female spies.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mark Nenhauser
- 08-21-17
ortho chlorobenzyl again or else I hereby
or something like that is actually Ortho chlorobenzyl aguinaldo lighting well not quite. narrator gets better and better whereas the rating gets worse and worse and worse and worse and Ortho chlorobenzene melanocyte lighting or something like that
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Jack Fuller
- 03-28-24
love most of Clancy's books, Jack ryan
too much esoteric story lines that really did not move the story forward. not as bad as some but not as good as others.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Allen Anthony
- 02-08-16
This is an imitation Clancy book
Just not good, these writers should spend more time developing their own style and not try to duplicate Clancy. I would bet their own style and creativity would shine through. For me I am through with any of the Op-Center books read by M Kramer
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- M. Henderson
- 06-15-15
Must have been a contractual thing
Any additional comments?
This book was way off the mark for a Clancy Op Center genre story. Must have been a contractual deadline book they threw together to meet the obligation to the publisher. Stretch the story to fill the space.... so boring.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Larry Pitts
- 11-28-11
Misleading author claim
I just finished this book and found the same problems with it as I found with "Acts of War" Too many characters, too much jumping around in the story line and extremely poor story. I would give it zero stars if that were an option.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!